false 1680925 0 0 6479837 9515784913 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242738792m/6479837.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242738792s/6479837.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6479837-timothy-archerin-sielunvaellus 0.0 0 The novel opens in '80. On the day of John Lennon's murder, Angel Archer visits Guru Edgar Barefoot's houseboat, reflecting on deceased relatives. During the 60s, she was married to Jeff Archer, Episcopalian Bishop of California Tim Archer's son. She introduced Kirsten Lundborg to her father-in-law. The two began an affair. Kirsten has a son from a previous relationship, Bill, a schizophrenic mechanic with Asberger's. Tim's being investigated for gnostic, allegedly heretical views about the 2nd century BCE Zadokite scrolls, which apparently reproduce some Jesus sayings.
Jeff commits suicide due to romantic obsession with Kirsten. After poltergeist activity, he manifests to Tim, Angel & Kirsten at a seance. Angel's sceptical, believing the existential situation of Tim & Kirsten is akin to Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy. Their credulity reflects loss of belief in contemporary consensual reality.
The three are told that Kirsten & Tim will die. As predicted, Kirsten, suffering cancer, takes a barbiturate overdose. Tim travels to Israel to investigate whether or not a psychotropic mushroom was associated with the resurrection. His car stalls. Disoriented, he falls from a desert cliff & dies.
On the houseboat, Angel is reunited with Bill, Kirsten's son. Claiming Tim's reincarnated spirit within him, he's soon reinsitutionalised. Angel agrees to care for Bill, in return for a rare record offered by Edgar.
This is one of Dick's most intellectually philosophical works. His novels usually employ multiple narrators or omniscient perspective, this is told in the 1st person by a single narrator: Angel. His work was often criticized for its flat, stereotypical female characters. Angel may represent an effort to prove he could create a believable feminine voice.]]> 4764 3.88 55181 4032 1680925 4.00 2 1 1982 6479548 951578428X 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242738828m/6479548.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242738828s/6479548.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6479548-on-aika-sijoiltaan 0.0 0 Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is & the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn't know that. He thinks it's 1959. He also thinks he served in WWII, that he lives in a quiet little community & that he's really the world's long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. Once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he's the center of a universe gone terribly awry.]]> 4764 3.88 55181 4032 1680925 4.00 2 1 1959 6479844 9515786754 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242738745m/6479844.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242738745s/6479844.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6479844-simulantit 0.0 0 The Simulacra is the story of a USA where the whole government is a fraud & the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he's convinced his body odor is lethal. The fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion & in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the ones we see.]]> 4764 3.88 55181 4032 1680925 4.00 2 1 1964 3941664 9789524719933 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3941664.Nedut 4.00 1 1680925 4.00 2 1 2007 3993886 9524712946 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3993886.391 4.00 1 1680925 4.00 2 1 2004