We here at the Village Copier are avid readers. We like not spending money even more. As water cooler talk seemed to always come back to the books we were reading at the time, we began to share the great(and maybe not so great) books we’ve all been reading. Tune in every other week to our book club and see what we’ve been reading!
The novel Blade Runner was based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a sci-fi novel in which the world has been destroyed from a nuclear war. The world still functions but is abandoned and filled with dust and radiation. People colonize Mars and in doing so created androids to essentially be their slaves. Some of the androids escape to earth to try and live freely and must be killed. The book centers on Rick Deckard: A bounty hunter who specializes in “retiring” escaped android. The read follows his process as he must kill 6 escaped androids through out what was once California.
VC REVIEWS
NICK
I Definitely liked the movie better than the book, but it might be because I saw the movie before reading the book. The move created a more engrossing world that kept me interested from start to finish. I got what the author was trying to say, but I felt like the characters could’ve been more introspective so we’d know more about the motives behind them. His idea of androids having no empathy and that’s how they could be distinguished from humans is interesting juxtaposed from the imagery of humans hooking up to a machine to experience a certain feeling.
CARRIE
I actually enjoyed the book much better than the movie, but I read the book first. I think Dick set up a really interesting
post-world world and I wish the book was even longer so I could learn more about it. The book makes some interesting comments on what makes humans human, and the idea of what the human race considers to be a defining feature of us can become replicated in machinery. The character arc of the book’s main character Rick Deckard is well developed, and what I think separates the book from the movie in quality.
GENRE:
Crime/Action/Sci-Fi
