What is the quickest you've ever abandoned a book? I threw this out when I realized that the electric sheep wasn't a metaphor but a literal object in the world, stupidest thing I've ever read.

Midwit general?

>>21937202 (OP)

Probably top ten biggest Ls of all time

Total fail.

That's one of my favorite novels of all time.

And Philip K. Dick is my favorite writer of all time.

Pearls before swine, I guess.

>>21937202 (OP)

Might be the dumbest take in the history of /lit/

>>21937202 (OP)

>I threw this out when I realized that the electric sheep wasn't a metaphor but a literal object in the world, stupidest thing I've ever read.

kek

>>21937202 (OP)

>the electric sheep wasn't a metaphor but a literal object in the world

Aren't most metaphors in literature also literal objects in the world?

Why would they make electric sheeps in the future? I like Philip k. dick's other stuff. But you read the title and you say "okay it is kind of a funny metaphor. People dream of sheeps so electric people dream of sheep. It is a fair question" but no, for some reason they invent electric sheep in the future. It was so stupid I felt like I was reading a comic book.

>he believes real life sheeps after Dolly are natural

the whole blade runner including movie is about how humankind made all other species extinct and now have to cope with that fact. Replicant test that Rachel failed is based on empathy towards animals that no longer exist.

>It was so stupid 

>I like Philip k. dick's other stuff

That's not even in the Top 30 of the Dick Stuff That Makes You Go "Wuuuh?" IN the First 15 Pages. 



Name 3 PKD books you liked or you a bait.

They explain why in the book. Environmental collapse caused by war has left every species of animal extinct, causing humanity to start to hold animal life in very high regard. Humans desire an animal to care for, partially as a status symbol, but they are expensive so often humans buy robotic animals to care for instead.

>>21937202 (OP)

I had never read any of PKD BC never had interest in 'le horror genre' BC of midwit fuel like Steven King and such.

However yesterday I picked up picrel and it is such kino, not shallow at all and Im enjoying all the ironical electric animal references.

And I second that this is the pearls before swine case with op.

>>21937202 (OP)

What's it like being retarded?

>I threw this out when I realized that the electric sheep wasn't a metaphor but a literal object in the world, stupidest thing I've ever read.

>>21937202 (OP)

Philip K. Dick is a pulp author so you have to expect this kind of goofy stuff. It's cheesy but based.
