Our third selection (and my first pick) in the Dark and Stormy Book Club is Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This is the novel that inspired the film Blade Runner.
That’s one of my top 5 films of all-time, which is largely what inspired me to begin my exploration of Dick’s work here. As deftly as this book explores the nature of life and reality, it’s almost deceptively simply written. It’s as if it covertly injects you with profundity.
Please come and explore it with us.
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What does profundity mean?
ss: it’s like whacked or something.
Maybe I can find out in NOLA this weekend. Surely, someone will be able to answer. God I hope I remember to bring my videocam.
…and blog the videos.
You do realize that any video I actually manage to take will be nonsense? The last time I had a video camera when with my sister I ended up with a whole lot of footage of the ground and nothing else. It was as if I wasn’t pressing record all the way when I thought I was filming something interesting, and then, after I lowered the camera, the recording really started.
Here’s hoping for a steady hand. Not that I will be impaired – MUCH.
My flippin’ floppin, rama-lama-ding-dong Barnes and Nobel didn’t HAVE the frickin’ book. They had every OTHER thing Dick ever wrote but did they have the book I wanted?! NO! That would be too easy. Pains in my ass….
Our library has several copies, maybe yours will; or your college liberry.
Pfft! I don’t use the library, Seester.
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