Saul Bellow. I read two other books by him but not this one so haven't got a clue. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
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Saul Bellow. I read two other books by him but not this one so haven't got a clue. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I have spent so much money on books since I purchased the kindle that my prided frugality has now taken on the tincture of a constructed myth, but I was going to buy Dick's cult classic yesterday, and now I have a flimsy justification. :rolleyes: Instant gratification does not really ease psychic pain, but I tell myself I am stocking my fortress.
As to Dick, I haven't read all his stuff, and I should not like him, given my taste for complex realism and *high* modernism, and I do not know all his novels, but there is just something about his work that resists being dated, or tucked into genre, and I do like those of his stories I know. I read up @ Amazon on the controversy between Blade Runner and the original text, and think I have room for both variations. I just need to check a couple of things, and then, whoosh! :)
if Androids wins count me in :D
What the heck, I'm in for Androids too. Sounds like a fast and interesting read, and something different from what i normally would read. Ok, I'm in. :D
Well, I wooshed this morning, had pop tarts, went to the bank, did my shopping, fed kitties, and have to put a pad lock on my Amazon account at this point. I was supposed to have my book splurge last year. I will not start reading until after midnight--and not to worry. I wanted the title, just clarifying in case of a last minute surge or what.
So did Androids win? Should I start looking for it?
I have only only just started reading, and sort of skimmed over Delaney's introduction because I am already familiar, to a degree, with Dick's voice, and I know already that *fans* are confused that Blade Runner is rather romantically sympathetic to artificial intelligence.
If I can gas a bit about BR, I like the movie. Tis a flawed thing but this is the only film that ever made me sympathetic to Harrison Ford, and it has a touch of prosaic power.
I don't think the argument between naturally created species and manufactured species can necessarily win one side against the other, because at the micro-biotic level life is seemingly just as manufactured as plastic, but I will suspend judgment and see what Dick pulls out of the hat--keeping in mind that he did not have the knowledge of the genome project.
Any library should have it Virgil, but I purchased the file...
When I am dirt poor again things will get worse for me, as I have gotten used to doing as I wish, within the parameters of disability paradigms, which suggests I should get working :). I did sift last night, but haven't pitched since mid-December (sigh).
I found it at the library today! As soon as I finish with The Turn of the Screw, I'll start Androids. :)