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Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.]]> 1974 3 2 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 13 21:01:43 -0700 2007 Sun May 13 21:09:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 29009153 979834 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.95 1976 1974 4 2 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 15:43:40 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 15:59:17 -0700 2008 Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) possess. However, the novel's...more...]]> 36668875 1662632 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 3 1 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 01 02:49:43 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 27 12:01:28 -0700 2009
PDK is mostly famous for the movies that have been made from his novels. His books are a bit obscure, even among many Science Fiction fans, and for a good reason: he's not a very good storyteller.
...more...]]> 36402895 147358 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 2 2 false Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 12:25:28 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 12:48:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 30137400 1268679 239956 0575079959 9780575079953 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173031683m/239956.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173031683s/239956.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239956.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.85 39 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a relatively straightforward tale of paranoid unease at finding the world isn't what it should be.
Jason Taverner is world-famous for his songs & regular TV show. "Thirty million people saw you zip up your fly tonight." "... It's my trademark." Altho this future USA is a grim police state with labor camps in Alaska & Canada, jetsetting Taverner enjoys being one of the winners.
Then he wakes up in a sleazy hotel room, still well-dressed & flush with money, but no longer the famous Jason Taverner. No ID--that's a forced-labor offence. His agent doesn't know him. Nor do his closest friends. He's even vanished from police databanks.
Forged documents are needed, hand-drawn by teenaged expert Kathy--one of Dick's most alarming women, a neurotic petty criminal who's also a police informer, who entraps & manipulates Taverner until he's terrified of her. He may deserve it. This self-obsessed megastar inflicts small, unthinking cruelties on virtually every woman he meets.
The title's policeman is another interesting character: Police General Felix Buckman, a mostly good man (fan of Elizabethan songs: "Flow, my teares...") trapped in a horrible system. Is Taverner, the man with no past, a threat? Less so, maybe, than Buckman's amoral sister Alys, who takes special interest in Taverner & seems to have the world's only copies of his music albums...
Paranoid wrongness is expertly conveyed & resolved with a typically offbeat SF notion. A sunny finale concludes one of Dick's most approachable novels.--David Langford]]> 1974 5 1 false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 09:47:09 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 03:57:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 20255745 1086953 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 5 1 true Tue Apr 15 18:06:33 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 01:02:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 10598485 670347 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 5 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 19:39:21 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 19:47:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 49435389 1938544 216362 067974066X 9780679740667 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356m/216362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356s/216362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216362.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.]]> 1974 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Mon Mar 16 08:12:41 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 08:27:33 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 339606 32883 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 4 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 20 08:14:57 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 16:50:05 -0800 2009 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridge yesterday. I have no idea why I let PKD sit my "authors to read list" for 5 years. I guess it just wasn't the right time.

Flow My Tears was ...more...]]> 75969151 2160536 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 3 1 false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:02:03 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 21:49:29 -0700 2009 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is one example. The plot cente...more...]]> 43248228 1207070 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 2 0 true Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 10:20:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 10:45:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 70239418 1846555 216362 067974066X 9780679740667 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356m/216362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356s/216362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216362.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.]]> 1974 3 0 false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 07:11:30 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 20:26:09 -0700 2009
The ride P.K. Dick takes me on in this book is pretty meandering. Some of t...more...]]> 81524375 2269692 216362 067974066X 9780679740667 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356m/216362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356s/216362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216362.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.]]> 1974 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 19 19:18:33 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 19:39:43 -0800 2009 1 The main character seems to lose his identity and any records of his existence overnight, with former
friends and colleagues perceiving him as a perfect stranger. He goes through a series of mi...more...]]> 72512530 1973475 216362 067974066X 9780679740667 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356m/216362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356s/216362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216362.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.]]> 1974 5 0 false Fri Sep 25 19:45:22 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 19:53:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 79177185 2919610 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Nov 27 22:48:18 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 12:04:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 44387319 967483 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 5 0 false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:43:12 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:43:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 56403893 2107086 216362 067974066X 9780679740667 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356m/216362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783356s/216362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216362.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.]]> 1974 3 0 false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 15:26:03 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 06:46:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 34821411 1055282 4919454 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4919454.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said_A_Novel 3.60 10
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 1974 0 1 false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 11:09:08 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 11:10:14 -0700 2008 54272823 2266457 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 5 0 false Tue Apr 28 14:04:50 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 05:33:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 63842332 2532217 22584 1857983416 9781857983418 117 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984m/22584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167351984s/22584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said 3.96 2402 1974 5 0 false Fri Jul 17 06:21:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 06:30:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1454424