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  <title><![CDATA[The Divine Invasion]]></title>
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  <default_description>In &lt;b&gt;The Divine Invasion&lt;/b&gt;, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? &lt;b&gt;The Divine Invasion&lt;/b&gt; &quot;blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence&quot; (&lt;i&gt;West Coast Revew of Books&lt;/i&gt;).</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[the internal battle for reality, the good vs. the evil, the light vs. the dark, children vs. goats -<br/>its a throwdown for all of humanity.   its intergalactic and its terrifying, its your soul and its winner take all.   Sunday, sunday, sunday - BE THERE!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dick, Philip K.  THE DIVINE INVASION.  (1981).  ***.  Dick experienced (suffered?) a psychic event on 2/3/74 that completely changed his thinking and his approach to life.  In today’s terms, he would have become a rabid born-again Christian.  His epiphany resulted in a significant change in his wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78220590">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I get it:  PKD was getting sicker and sicker, crazier and crazier so he was trying to crank out as much of his armchair theology and related analysis as fast as he could.  VALIS was really good by the end.  The fully-speaking infant phophet / messiah was really creepy and interesting.  Divine Invasi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67556105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 03:40:39 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is the usual time-tripping here. Pay attention. It is like a LOST episode, and indeed probably inspired some of the concepts used in that estimable show. You need to keep track not only of where you are in space, but in time. The Divine Invasion posits a scenario in which god, Yahweh, was esse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52038632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38257216">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit I had some initial reservations when starting this book, anything with religious references is an instant turn off, it's just part of my nature. <br/><br/>And yet, I stuck with it, and it paid off, big time. Typical of PKD, this novel was a mindfuck. <br/><br/>The mission of Chri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38257216">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;sequel&quot; to VALIS.  VALIS, one of my favorite books, seemed at times so obscure and meandering (obviously I enjoy these things when done right) that I was a bit surprised by Divine Invasion, which is much more direct and straightforward.  To the point where VALIS begins to look like a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69518315">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick did exactly the right thing with his encounter with the divine (or <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Mental_health">psychotic break</a>, depending on who you ask).  He /kept writing/.  Divine Invasion is the second of the VALIS tetralogy, which includes VALIS, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Divine Invasion, and Radio Free Alb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31056881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now my favorite book in the so-called &quot;Valis Trilogy,&quot; <em>The Divine Invasion</em> takes the heady gnostic concepts of <em>Valis</em> and truly presents them in an unabashedly &quot;sci-fi&quot; context - the infant Christ has been reborn on mars to a woman with M.S. after a divine conception, and must be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1251857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Evil One in a cage at the zoo- what, with his own temperature and gravity and atmosphere, and imported food? An exotic life form?'<br/>'He's angry as hell about it.'&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;You beguile me. You lead me from the path with sparks of light, dancing, singing, and the sound of b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69166497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected more VALIS theolo-crazy, which I got in spades, but I didn't expect the maniacal Joyce references, the remarkably straightforward plot, and the downright lucid way this story travels through about 6 levels of reality. There's something so poignant about the way Dick confronted his theolog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55271386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second part of what is often referred to as the Valis trilogy. The Divine Invasion is basically a fictionalized story using the cosmology that Dick reveals in the book VALIS. While an excellent book that simplifies a lot of the more confusing aspects of VALIS, the ending leaves something...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50496813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  This book was really hard to comprehend, but the main idea is that Earth is ruled by a corrupt religious government and how a man, Herb Asher, on a colony planet smuggles God onto earth as a baby, then it kind of gets blurry and random. Despite that I thought this was an excellent book and that it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76386181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sequel to Valis. Much more exciting. Sci-fi police state tries to prevent an invasion of what they deem to be evil, but is actually the second coming of &quot;god&quot;. A holy mission ensues to help god in human form remember the nature of his existence to prevent &quot;the adversary&quot; from get...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58457313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a fable-like companion and expansion to the convoluted personal cosmology introduced in Valis, The Divine Invasion is fascinating.  As a novel, it falters under the weight of the cosmological grab-bag it carries.  In Valis, PKD seemed as interested in his characters as his cosmology, but here the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50702752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[... Dick can do better. While Valis was an incredible novel that fully explored Dick's enlightenment/mental collapse via a lifelong addiction to uppers and his views of the divine, electronic music and pink lasers, this book seems to be more os a scifi thriller that really fails to go anywhere, desp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2786783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good and interesting read. I wasn't too keen on the ending. As the stack of yet-to-read pages thinned, I wondered how Dick was going to sum everything up in such a short (and getting ever shorter) time. Unsatisfyingly was the answer. Is it how you begin, or is it how you finish?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to a 1982 WBAI interview with him.  I became more into<br/>what he was doing as a writer so I started to read him and got<br/>interested in his sci-fi novels.<br/><br/>If you can google his interview it is great. religion, the FBI<br/>and why Dick would not let the FBI put &quot;idea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75518297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit: it's not as strong as I wished it to be. VALIS conceptions don't fit well in the sci-fi novel. Nice phildickian mindfuck for advanced and prepared readers and utter boredom for those who dislikes this kind of gnostic new wave.<br/>So it goes ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This reminds me a little of Hume's problem: how do you respond to an incontrovertable witness attesting to an impossibility. Herb Asher says that you should trust the pink light. What was the deal with Philip Dick and Linda Ronstadt? I suppose I should get off my butt (maybe on my butt) and google i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53481097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yah is an entity on another planet represented as God. Yah returns to earth by impregnating a terminally ill woman named Rybys. She and Herb Asher, whom becomes Yah's legal father, return to earth from their space colony so Yah can be born and stop Belial, otherwise known as the devil, from taking o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40160072">more...</a>]]></body>
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