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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

“Rick Deckard is a Bounty Hunter who's on the trail of six "Andys" (Androids) who have come to Earth illegally. His job is to track them down and "retire" them. Something he found easy to do until he met her, Rachael Rosen. The Android that does the impossible, passes the "Voight-Kampff" test. The story quickly devolves into a slow, drawn out and frankly boring mystery that was putting me to sleep by the end."   

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Pros: I was more interested in comparing it to the film, "Bladerunner."/At first I kind of liked the drab, dreary atmostphere but it soon became soporific. 

Cons: I had no real idea what was going on with Mercerism/The end there had me blinking in bewilderment, like with Herbert's 29th Dune Book/There was a lot of idle chit-chat while they were in murderous/intense situations, it just seemed odd. 

Full Review: 

Rick Deckard, a Bounty Hunter, contracted with the San Francisco Police Department hunts down and retires rogue Androids. He's just inherited the caseload of his colleague that was injured on duty. He's now on the trail of six "Andys" who are hiding out amongst the populace. 

J. B. Isidore is a Special. He knows he's largely useless and feels it most of the time. His world takes a sudden shift though he hears noise from another apartment. He's astonished to find a girl inside. He decides he'll come back tonight and they'll have dinner together. 

Wouldn't you know it, these two storylines end up intersecting. Throughout it all though Deckard struggles During his study of his colleagues caseload, Deckard adminitsrered the Voight-Kampff test to Rachael Rosen. It's a test that measures empathy, the ability to feel for another living creature. 

Rachael passes the only thing is, she's an android. The Nexus-6, the most advanced operating system out there, and also the same OS the six Andys are using. 

It's obivously put him on edge and has made him start questioning everything. Do they actually feel, is he actually killing something? Things take a romantic turn when he and Rachael Rosen meet up to discuss the remaining three Androids. 

There was a whole lot of talking in this book and not a lot of action. Even the scenes where Deckard managed to find an Android, everything felt jerky, stilted and awkward. Deckard just didn't strike me as the Bounty Hunter type. And his relationship with Rachael, it all just felt rambling and forced. Honestly, it started putting me to sleep by the end, so to finish it was a struggle. 

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