A 4.5 rounds up to a 5.

Wow, what an interesting little book. While on the one hand the second half feels rushed in comparison to the first - it demonstrates the complete mental disintegration that Deckard endures. While on the one hand the characters aren't described in much depth, it shows the lack of identity the characters have in this dystopian setting. This is my first book by P. K. Dick, but it gets me excited to read some more of his work. Some of his uses of description are peculiar in the best possible way - giving the impression of a very distorted future wasteland. I knew the storyline would be different from the film(s) going into reading, but the extent of the differences did suprise me. The suprise however, was definitely a good one.