false <![CDATA[Substance mort (A Scanner Darkly)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175263766m/498151.jpg 14817 27 Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. <I>A Scanner Darkly</I> cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. <I>--David Langford, Amazon.co.uk</I> 1527439 1977 A Scanner Darkly total:5055|5:1709|4:2065|3:1023|2:203|1:55| 5055 20335 6945 351 698033 1400096901 9781400096909 107 20 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177369166m/698033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698033.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 6 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Aug 15 10:31:19 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 10:52:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1970307 0006482465 9780006482468 5 2 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191083399m/1970307.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1970307.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 3 false Sat Sep 29 09:30:04 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 09:30:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 2 false Mon Jul 21 13:06:16 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 13:07:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1490020 0385016131 9780385016131 14 1 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212546100m/1490020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1490020.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Aug 31 10:48:09 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 10:50:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 4 1 true Thu Dec 04 20:03:14 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 20:16:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 1 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 31 13:22:10 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 13:29:08 -0800 2008 Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. I usually know what I'm getting into, where the story usually takes me is often predictable. Introduction to drugs, addiction, the good times, the craving, the ...more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 4 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 10:22:28 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 06:49:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 698033 1400096901 9781400096909 107 20 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177369166m/698033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698033.A_Scanner_Darkly 1 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 25 02:58:46 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 02:58:55 -0800 2008
No narrative tension, the writing is awful (I would quote some of it as proof, but I already got rid of my copy), and the most potentially exciting elements of the book (drug subculture and its lingo and take on friendship, multiple identitie...more...]]> 498151 2070415775 9782070415779 13 1 Substance mort (A Scanner Darkly) 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175263766m/498151.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498151.Substance_mort 4 1 false Sun Oct 19 14:03:24 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 01:09:51 -0700 2008 Très bon livre, vraiment.
Très flippant aussi.
Pas dans le sens "horreur" mais plutôt dans l...more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 0 false Mon Aug 03 00:06:17 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 00:22:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2334610 0575023813 9780575023819 1 1 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214608056m/2334610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2334610.A_Scanner_Darkly 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1981 Wed Apr 08 10:27:52 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:41:29 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 698033 1400096901 9781400096909 107 20 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177369166m/698033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698033.A_Scanner_Darkly 1 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Jan 01 11:18:29 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:17:51 -0800 2009
This book contains a very touching note from the author at the end.

Hi, I’m Philip K. Dick and, as you might have sensed, this was all tru...more...]]> 756984 1857988477 9781857988475 87 10 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178086719m/756984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/756984.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 01:43:43 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 01:03:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 0 false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 09:16:02 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 16:54:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 216367 0679736654 9780679736653 760 52 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783389m/216367.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216367.A_Scanner_Darkly 4 0 false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 05:12:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 13:20:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 2 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:54:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 15:02:21 -0700 2009 It didn't help much that the film was pretty bad (not awful... but oh so definitely not good), but without fail I kept imagining scenes from the movie WHILE reading the book. And I just hat...more...]]> 698033 1400096901 9781400096909 107 20 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177369166m/698033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698033.A_Scanner_Darkly 4 1 false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 21:26:06 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:38:33 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 4 0 false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 07:30:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 17:05:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14817 057507681X 9780575076815 4022 253 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211494268m/14817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly 3 0 false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 11:53:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 11:58:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 698033 1400096901 9781400096909 107 20 A Scanner Darkly 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177369166m/698033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698033.A_Scanner_Darkly 5 0 false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 23:19:25 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 03:04:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=498151