Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
It helps to have a reading buddy. Sometimes my father-in-law and I read the same books, and we occasionally send each other emails back and forth describing our experiences with them. (Sort of a lazy, infrequent, correspondence-based reading club.) We had the same reaction to this one: couldn’t get into it, put it down, came back, got through a few chapters, then couldn’t stop reading. The writing can get really clunky in spots, but then some spots soar. It’s really a beautiful novel. The beloved movie adaption, Blade Runner, contains many of the same elements, but they’re sort of on different planets, emotionally. Recommended.