Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Sun, 2001-10-14 18:50
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Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
After yeras of putting it off I've finally read this amazing novel by Philip K Dick.
It's an easily written tale but it covers all sorts of themes' largely to do with are we who we think we are and what it realty?
This has been mind blowing stuff-anyone read anything else by philip k dick?
Kiko
He did one of the best short stories I have ever read- 'Second Variety'. It's simply chilling.
Primate
It is a good book isn't it :) I read a collection of his short stories that was excellent - but I can't remember what it was called, sorry! He has a fair few collections out there though so it shouldn't be hard to find one. I also read 'We can recall it for you wholesale' (which became the film Total Recall) and that was pretty good too. He was certainly a talented bloke.
james
Thanks for replying-I'm always interested to know what others think.
Am currently reading Peake's Titus groan which is again highly imaginative stuff.
Liana
I read and re read the Gormenghast books.......first of all at age about 10, when my dad gave me them. Ive now passed them onto a friend.
Really brilliant.....
Andrea
Me too - among my favourite books ever!
Titus Groan, Titus Alone and Gormenghast - more than brilliant.
Apparantly, Peake was one of the first journalists to visit (if that's the right word) Auschwitz after it was liberated and it freaked him out so much he lost it altogether.
Well, actually, he didn't 'lose it' of course, because he then wrote the Gormenghast trilogy...
Sorry, but I'll have to take 'em (all three) to the desert wotsit along with C & P.
Liana
Checked out his poetry too Andrea?
Andrea
Nope, never did - blast!!!
Might have converted me...
Dave Randall
I too love the gormenghast trilogy.........I often re-read or just dip in to favourite bits for the beauty of the prose.