1001 Group Read: May, 2012 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Here we go for our May group read! Let the reading begin!!

Looking forward to starting this! It will be my first group read in a while.

It will be my first ever, and I am looking forward to it. I never would have chosen this book by myself, I really like to read it with the group!

Oh woe. I wish I could join in on this one but I am committed to reading only books by Chinese authors this month as we travel to China.

Like last month's read, I finished this one on my own recently. Looking forward to discussions!

According to my trusty spreadsheet it was about 13 years ago that I read this, and my memory of it is very hazy, so I might be tempted by a re-read.

I will start reading as soon as I find my copy. I know that it is somewhere, but where? I still remember the movie, though.

Will start this in a week or so, once 1Q84 is over and done with.

I am looking forward to reading about what others think because I just finished and I am a little lost. I don't normally read sci-fi so I am thinking that something passed right over my head with this one. I liked it but I feel like there is something profound that alluded me; something that connects all the weird randomness.

I hardly ever read sci-fi and I had a hard time keeping my mind on this book for the first 50 pages. But now, after 100 pages, I'm completely into it, and wondering who are androids and who aren't!

I'm through Chapter 6 and while I am liking the story so far, I am really hoping that some details are shared that pull it together. But based on bucketyell's comments I might just have to forget about that.

Even reading summaries on-line don't seem to reveal anything deep or profound so maybe I just read too much into it.

I have to admit I liked the story and didn't have the feeling I missed something. I don't think it's very deep or profound. Or am I wrong?

I think I was expecting more from the whole Mercer/Buster thing. But I guess sometimes a sci-fi action book is just a sci-fi action book.

#14: I think you're right. And I also expected more from Mercer and Buster, but in the end it made sense: this was just it. Nothing more nothing less. Fine for me. A quick read, a discovery of Sci-fi. I liked it. That's it.

Somehow I became confused and have ended up reading The Electric Kool Aid Test, I only realised when I read the post and people were talking about sci-fi, very different from a Hippie LSD trip around America! Any way I guess it is a book I would have taken a long time to get around to otherwise.

I finished the book this evening. A short entertaining if rather bleak sci-fi novel. I enjoyed it both on the level of a futuristic " cops and robbers" story, and also on the exploration of the blurred distinction between "real" and artificial life. 4/5