Doug Maloney

Journal 1:
As I read the beginning of the book, I found the pace to be VERY slow. it's introducing the characters, including the main one, Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter, and the setting, so of course i'd expect it to be slowly paced. of course, the pace finally begins to sort of pick up when the  Voigt-Kampff test is given to Rachel Rosen, who turned out to be an android. This is where the reader learns that Rick has a lot of resourcefulness and a decent amount of guile, seeing as he outsmarted the corporation that made the Nexus-6 model of robots, six of which he was hunting. And now, we move on to J.R. Isidore, a chickenhead (Below normal I.Q. Those exceptionally stupid are called Antheads.) who lives in an abandoned apartment. The very same day Rock gets the assignment to kill the nexus-6 androids, a girl moves into one of the apartments near him. She first introduces herself as Racheal Rosen, but corrects herself saying that she's Pris Stratton. I feel that this will be a major plot point later on. Isidore goes off to his work as a fake animal vet's driver, and accidentally picks up a real cat. Moving back to Deckard, when he gets out of the Rosen building, Racheal call him to tell if he needs any help she'll help him. Rick declines. Deckard checks Pokolov's (The first android he has to kill) home and work for him. He has no luck, and returns. Eventually, he gets a call from his boss, who tells him a W.P.O. (Russian Police) agent will be joining him for his mission.


Journal 2:
As I continue reading the book, the W.P.O Agent meets up with Deckard. the Agent was carryiing a special type of laser pistol apparently made by the W.P.O., that only fires with a little button that the Agent presses. Deckard then reveals that the Agent was actually Pokolov, and when Pokolov tries to fire the laser pistol, Deckard reveals that he has a device in his car that diffuses Lasers into ordinary light. I found this to be very clever on the part of Deckard. Pokolov then tries to choke Deckard, but Deckard pulls out a .38 magnum and shoots Pokolov in the the head. He looks on the sheet for the next android to hunt: Luba Luft. He enters the opera house that Luft is playing in, and gives her the Voight-Kampff test. She dodges around the questions and pretends to not understand certain words, which I think is evidence that the androids are becoming even more human-like, and eventually calls another police department. The other police department comes, and takes Deckard away. when Deckard gets there, he meets with two men: Phil Resch and Garland. They discuss a few things, like how Rick comes from an organization they never heard of, uses a test they never heard of, and all that Eventaully Lab reports on Pokolov come back, revealing that he is, in fact, and android, so Phil and garland decide that they have to be tested through their own test. Resch goes out of the room to get the equipment required for the test, and Garland tells Deckard that he AND Resch were androids, but Resch stayed behind a week to get false memories. Garland then revealed that all the people in the building were androids. Resch eventually comes back, and shoots Garland out of the blue. Resch chalks it up to a sort of psionic force that he predicted that Garland would take a shot at him when he entered the room, and Rick told Resch that Garland thought of Resch as a bigger threat than him. Resch tells the secretary that Garland doesn't want to be disturbed for the next half hour, and Resch and Deckard go down to the lobby. The entire scene, in my opinion, was very tense, and I just kept reading to see what would happen to Deckard.

Journal 3:
As Resch and Deckard exit the building, Resch tells Deckard that he has a pet squirrel. I began wondering that maybe Garland was lying about Resch being an android after all. When they reach the opera house that Luba worked at, the discover that she left and went to the museum. The two men go to the museum and apprehend her. Deckard buys Luba a book with Edvard Munch paintings in it. This is a showcase of empathy, and I've heard a subject about whether Deckard is actually an android or not. This is one of the reasons I don't believe he is. The three of them enter an elevator, and Resch ends up shooting Luba dead. Deckard calls the justice hall to pick up the body and run a bone marrow test, and the two men go to Resch's car. Resch gets tested, revealing that he wasn't an android all along, and Rick asks himself a question, showing he has empathy for androids. I feel that this will become a problem later. We zoom back to John Isidore, who comes back to his apartment. He and Pris Stratton talk about Pris's life before she came ot the old apartments, and shem mentions two people: Roy and Irmgard Baty. She talks about how they ran a drugstore, and she got drugs off them to get high off of, but then she started collecting stamps. A knock on the door signifies that, well, speak of the devil, The Batys are here. When they said that "They got Pokolov" In an instant I knew that these three were the last three androids. They talk for a while, and Roy sets up a trap for any bounty hunters, such as Deckard, so that he'll know if they arrive. They take a vote to stay with Isidore, and is passed between the three androids. As we switch back to Deckard, he buys a goat. I think he's just trying to cope with the whole Luba Luft thing, by buying the goat. He goes home and shows the goat to his wife. Deckard's boss calls him, telling him the location of two of the three androids. Of course, the third android is with them, so that shouldn't be much of a problem for Deckard. Deckard says that he's buying a sheep after he kills the other three androids, and then he hangs up, and goes to his empathy box. He grabs onto the handles, and ends up having a quick chat with "Wilbur Mercer." Deckard was trying to get help, but it failed. Deckard leaves his house, and realizes he needs help. He calls up Rachael Rosen. They agree to meet at a hotel. When the both get there, Rachael tells Deckard that Pris is the same type of model as herself. The two talked for a little while later, and - I'm just going to put this bluntly - They had sex. I feel there will be disastrous consequences from this action.

Journal 4:
After Deckard and Rachael do it, Deckard decided he can't go on killing androids anymore. See? I KNEW that would have bad consequences! Rachael has revealed that the only man that had bedder her and gone on hunting was Phil Resch, who gave Deckard the idea to bed her in the first place. Guess it only worked for him, then. Deckard threatened to kill Rosen, but never actually carried through with it. As we switch back to Isidore, there's a lot of buzz about Buster Friendly's big Exposee. I seriously wonder what exactly he's going to say... Back to the story, Isidore discovers a spider, and brings it to Pris. She then chops off four of the spider's legs, showing curiosity about whether it can move with four legs or not. This is solid proof to me that at least some androids are very amoral. Then Buster's Exposee comes on TV. He says that the situation provided by the empathy boxes was fake, and gives solid, hard proof for it. If I were a religious man during those times, I would have rushed straight to my empathy box that I would have, which is what everyone did, pretty much. Isidore, of course, rushes to his, and is put into a "Tomb World" of his, where everything is dead, and decaying. Eventually Mercer comes, and tells him that everything that Buster said was absolutely true, but what REALLY mattered was that missions of people just went to their empathy boxes to have their faith stay. Eventually, alarm bells ring as Rick enters the premises. the three androids, hide, while Isidore goes outside to release the spider.

And here is where the two protagonists meet face to face. I'm surprised it only happened now, in the climax. Deckard asks Isidore where the androids are, bur Isidore doesn't budge, and i'm surprised that he's faithful to the androids, to some extent. Rick uses a radar to discover where the androids are hiding, but as Rick is about to go up there, a strange man accosts him. It turns out it's Mercer. I'm thinking this is some sort of hallucination on Rick's part. I don't know why he's hallucinating, but he is. Mercer tells him that Pris is about to try to kill him, and Rick kills here before she even so much as gets a shot in. After he killed Pris, he looked for Mercer, who had disappeared. Rick then realizes his faith, as he recognized that Mercer had protected him. At Tv tropes puts it, it's a "Heel-Faith turn", although in this case instead of heel it's more of an anti-hero faith turn. Rick then gets into the apartment by pretending he was Isidore. I really don't think that would've worked unless they shared similar voices, which was very unlikely. Irmgard opens the door, and Deckard shoots her after realizing she had a laser pistol on her person. He hears Roy letting out a cry of anguish, proving that he really DID care for her, which I think is a bit odd for androids, since they're not supposed to feel empathy. Rick then went and killed Roy Baty. Isidore eventually came up, and was crying about the death of Pris. Deckard searches for the phone, and calls his boss. After he finished with his boss, Deckard went home to learn that Rachael had come and pushed his goat off his balcony. This is evidence that Androids have some sort of empathy-like qualities, with Rachael showcasing envy. The next chapter, in my opinion, was completely unnecessary, except to set up for the last chapter. Rick basically experiences what Mercer did, Rocks coming out of nowhere when trying to climb a rocky, arid hill. Rick gets down, and is about to call his wife, when he finds a toad, just sitting there. He picks it up, and takes it home with him. When he gets home, his wide, iran, reveals it to be an electric toad. This absolutely crushes rick, seeing as he had high hopes to get a U.N. medal, lots of money, and all that. Rick then goes to sleep, and Iran orders some stuff for the toad, wich was a couple sentences that I found COMPLETELY unnecessary at the end of the book.
THE END.