A review by sklus
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

4.0

This book should probably be a 3-star book for me, but I settled on 4-stars given that it was written in the 60s and Harrison Ford is in the movies. But, boy, can you tell that this book was written by a man. The treatment of women was horrible in this book. I knew the breast size of every female character in the book, but I knew nothing of the men. I can't even remember the men being physically described except for being large and frightening. The women characters seemed to be extra scatterbrained and self-absorbed. To be fair,

Spoiler

most of the women were androids and they were supposed to be empathy-less killers

. However, even Rick's wife was just there to be moody and dramatic about life. The dialogue was also a little hard to swallow, but it was more of a stylistic choice. Characters talked past and around one another, which played up the sickness and disorder of this post-nuclear earth. Overall, I really liked the world and the story. The treatment of animals, the religious elements, and the "post-apocalyptic but still lived in" Earth were all different from other Sci-Fi books I've read. I would recommend this book with the strong warning that it is a lot.