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    <body><![CDATA[if they were to teach pkd in school, this is probably the one they'd pick, cuz it's dreary and realistic and blatantly political and they'd get to use the word &quot;dystopian&quot; which means it has literary value. this is sci-fi the way normal people write it, where everything makes sense and &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38065530">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book does not have one of PKD's most inspired beginnings, but if you can slog through the first chapter and learn the vocabulary of the world, the story really takes off. I found it engrossing and terrifying - this is something I could see happening. It really raises the question of belief for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17860396">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The concept is solid PKD- wealthy elites engineer a phony war to drive the underclasses into massive underground shelters, where they live short, crowded, terrorized lives. Meanwhile the Earth's surface becomes a veritable wildlife park for the few who live there in peace and prosperity. It has a li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76535514">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A thunderous return back to the frenzied paranoia of Philip K. Dick.  This is a toss-off novella that takes little time at all to read, but which bears all the hallmarks of Dick's style:  tyrannical governmental entities perpetrating vast lies upon the public, misanthropic moralizing and just enough...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56302123">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Did PKD write any novels that don't fit into both of these categories at once: sci-fi and dystopia? Oh and maybe, &quot;total mind screw?&quot;<br/><br/>This is another mind-job, with all humanity below ground after a nuclear war. But the nuclear war ended years ago, and a tiny elite few subdue th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68919652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this story simply flies apart at the seams...But, still, it is completely understandable! How, I just do not know. Dick gives us a creepy, funny look at a war-weary world where humanity is forced to serve -someone- on the surface of the world. Again, I cannot give too much away, so I will end wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39155624">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I overall liked this book... There were parts that I didn't fully understand, PDK used some language/slang/terms I didn't get, and there were parts that basically bored me. I really really liked the concept of this book (somewhat Matrix-esque, finding out you &amp; everyone you know are living in a worl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77099797">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That&#8217;s the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick&#8217;s futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics and the sinister potential of the military industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life. Americans have been shipped underground, where they toil in crowded industrial ant hills and receive a steady diet of inspiring speeches from a President who never seems to age. Nick St. James, like the rest of the masses, believed in the words of his leaders.  But that all changes when he travels to the surface&#8212;where what he finds is more shocking than anything he could possibly imagine.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[With World War III under way, most of mankind is driven into underground bunkers to hide from the effects of nuclear and biological weapons. After fifteen years, things are getting desperate. But what most of humanity doesn't know is that the war ended thirteen years earlier&mdash;Earth has become a large...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42636112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read quite a few books by Philip K Dick – more than I have listed on this site so far – I knew pretty much what to expect from a novel written in this frenzied period of activity in the sixties (he published another three novels in the same year, 1964) and I wasn’t disappointed. The pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5181853">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[At last, I've found a (small-ish) gem amidst the phildickian dreck. The plot does rely on stock sci-fi tropes, but given the age of the book, could they be PKD's own inventions? I'll leave that for the sci-fi historians out there to ponder. <br/><br/>Regardless, The Penultimate Truth is a solid an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63167742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[More media-suspicious weirdness from Philip K. Dick. A lie perpetrated to allow the upper class to keep living upper class lives, while the rest of humanity lives underground, thinking World War III is still raging over their heads. Great writing and viscerally disturbing stuff. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting to see that this, <em>The Zap Gun</em>, and <em>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch</em> were all written (or at least conceived) in the same year (along with <em>Clans of the Alphane Moon</em>, which I read before this).  Granted, yes, the whole thing fits together like several different jigsaw puzzles a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37425006">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Foi a minha introdução ao universo da narrativa distópica de P. K. Dick. Pretendo reler.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story that builds to a gripping climax and keeps you guessing right until the end.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That&#8217;s the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick&#8217;s futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics and the sinister potential of the military industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life. Americans have been shipped underground, where they toil in crowded industrial ant hills and receive a steady diet of inspiring speeches from a President who never seems to age. Nick St. James, like the rest of the masses, believed in the words of his leaders.  But that all changes when he travels to the surface&#8212;where what he finds is more shocking than anything he could possibly imagine.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story. AS in The Simacrula, a robot leader, controlled from behind the scenes manipulated the masses. THis time into beleiving that war nessecsitates 90% of the population to live underground, cut of from each other, producing robots for the &quot;war effort.&quot; Includes common PKD themes o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18569220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has some fairly glaring plot holes and some pretty worn sci-fi cliches, but manages to redeem itself with an original theme or two. It has a lot of elements that are reminiscent of 1984 and the Matrix. It falls a bit short in that it doesn't present a very compelling or plausible solution ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66258124">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THE LONGEST LIE  <p>World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector.  <p>But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers live invast private demesnes - repayment for their services in preserving the great lie.Until, one day, a tanker emerges and discovers the path to the most sinister truth of all...</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is definitely my favorite Philip K. Dick book. It leaves out the misogyny and the paedophilia and the bizarre stream-of-consciousness side trips on mysterious drugs and the scatological asides (it's not ever used as humor, Dick seems to have an obsession in making known what is going on in his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30562838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I only got about 25 pages in, and then gave up. A little jargony for me- it didn't hook me in from the beginning the way many of his books do. Plus, I've read Marx, so I found this a little didactic/redundant.]]></body>
    
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