Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A strange experience! It reminded me of a short story, and I really wish it had been longer. It was very hard for me to separate it from the - very different -film. Scratch that, it was impossible.

So it was an odd reading experience. I felt I gained a little more insight into the film, insomuch as when I re-watch it I'll be looking out for signs of certain aspects of the book - similarities between characters, aspects of their personalities, details about the culture they live in.

But all that feels like it's on quite superficial and trivial level. The book really is very different from the film in overall feel, plot, character, and details.

It's not as good, but it is good in other ways. There is a definite religious theme, and an exploration of what it means to have faith, to lose it. Even a fairly profound, if brief, exploration of whether it matters if the thing you have faith in really exists or not. That, I did not expect, and would have relished a deeper examination of.

All in all, enjoyable, somewhat thought-provoking, left me with unanswered questions and wanting to understand more... that at least it shares with the film.