Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is actually really quite brilliant and one of my favorite PKD stories.

I am currently reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. So far a very fun little collection of short sci-fi stories ranges from really good and thought provoking to campy as hell.

Ziggy Stardust said:

I think TheBoost already did a thread on this.

It only got past a couple pages...

I actually made a thread like this long ago. So yeah, there are at least two or three out there but they always sink. Mostly because bkev thinks Isaac Asimov wrote Brave New World.

asterisk8 said:

My buddy just finished reading it. He said, "i didn't like it a whole lot. i felt like it was a cool idea, but not very well executed. could be because it was his first book, but i felt like he didn't develop the characters well enough. i found myself not really pulling for any of the characters. it kinda felt like a vonnegut novel at first, but then it kinda just became mundane and tedious." That launched a big conversation about Vonnegut.

If your buddy claimed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was one of Philip K. Dick's first novels he certainly doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. PKD published around 20 novels prior to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

I have read a ton of Vonnegut and a really unhealthy amount of PKD, the thought of PKD ever sounding anything like Vonnegut actually made me laugh out loud. They are so extremely different.

Unless you and your buddy think an awful lot alike, I think you're pretty safe to completely disregard his review and tackle the book on your own. It is a quick read.