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    <body><![CDATA[This novel of half-baked ideas is more closely associated with Dick's own life than any other I've read to date.  The Tim Archer character is indeed based on Bishop Pike, a liberal Episcopal Bishop whom I listened to a great deal on the old Jerry Williams radio talk show during high school and who w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78825831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[PDK's swan song, as it turned out. It is also his most life-affirming book he ever wrote. Part biographical, part literary fiction and part paranormal mystery and 100% Masterpiece, this book is told from the perspective of a woman, something Dick had never done before. That he pulls it off so easily...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36052699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You see Bishop Pike and Dick were friends, they corresponded about religion, politics of the 1960s,etc.<br/><br/>The bishop was out int he desert reading recently discover Dead Sea Scrolls, and he may have gotten to the truth about the Bible. We can't have that can we? <br/><br/>Pike died in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75518652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The opening paragraph is great stuff!  Even though this is one of the least &quot;sci-fi&quot; of PKD's novels, it left me with a strange, disturbing feeling after reading it.  Highly recommended!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At last, a decent portrail of a strong woman character from my favourite sf writer. Has an air of sadness to it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I generally like PKD, and this series started off on an interesting note...but this was pretty boring and pointless.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting period piece about Berkeley/SF in the 60s/70s and Bishop Pike.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The story describes Bishop Timothy Archer's efforts to cope with the theological &amp; philosophical implications of newly-discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments. His character is based on the controversially iconoclastic Episcopalian Bishop James Pike, who died of exposure in the W. Bank Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in '69.<br/> 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.<br/> Jeff commits suicide due to romantic obsession with Kirsten. After poltergeist activity, he manifests to Tim, Angel &amp; Kirsten at a seance. Angel's sceptical, believing the existential situation of Tim &amp; Kirsten is akin to Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy. Their credulity reflects loss of belief in contemporary consensual reality.<br/> The three are told that Kirsten &amp; 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 &amp; dies.<br/> 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.<br/> 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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an especially good one of Dick's I think.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Transmigration of Timothy Archer]]>
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    <![CDATA[The story describes Bishop Timothy Archer's efforts to cope with the theological &amp; philosophical implications of newly-discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments. His character is based on the controversially iconoclastic Episcopalian Bishop James Pike, who died of exposure in the W. Bank Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in '69.<br/> 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.<br/> Jeff commits suicide due to romantic obsession with Kirsten. After poltergeist activity, he manifests to Tim, Angel &amp; Kirsten at a seance. Angel's sceptical, believing the existential situation of Tim &amp; Kirsten is akin to Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy. Their credulity reflects loss of belief in contemporary consensual reality.<br/> The three are told that Kirsten &amp; 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 &amp; dies.<br/> 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.<br/> 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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's fine and all, but nothing worth going out of your way for unless you're a Dick completist.]]></body>
    
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