Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Sot-Weed Factor


The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
read: 2021
Time 100 Novels

This was a long, weird one. It was an entertaining read, and amusing at times with the distortions of historical events (like the "John Smith journals"). Some of the weird sex stuff, I dunno, I coulda done without.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


  
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
read: circa 2000
Guardian 1000 Novels

I read this back in college, but I had occasion to re-watch the movie adaptation (Blade Runner) again recently, as well as the belated sequel Blade Runner 2049. The latter movie got into the Dick-esque reality-bending mind-screwiness more than the former.