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John wrote: "I saw that Ubik seems to have been based on ideas that Dick had previously used in a novella - What the Dead Men Say. Has anyone read this, and is it worth reading? It looks like i..."No, I've only read the best known Dick so far. Let us know how it is.
Vince wrote: "I must have read it since I've read Minority Report, the collection in which it's included, but I can't remember it at all. I'll see if I can track it down and re-read it when I'm done with Ubik."
I have a Minority Report collection and it's not in there.
Alan wrote: "It is waiting for me to get to it, but it may be a week or so out as I have others in front of it."
Same for me. I just wish I could read about ten times as fast as I do.
John wrote: "I bought a copy of this a couple of weeks ago, in preparation for this month's read - but it looked too intriguing, so I had to jump the gun, and I finished it a couple of days ago."Cool, Have you read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich? The story sounds very similar.
Vince wrote: "I last read this exactly ten years ago, in February 2014. I don't remember too much, but I know I liked it and thought it was probably the epitome of Philip K Dick. I'm looking forward to seeing how it holds up."
Yeah, PKD has never disappointed me yet. I won't start it for a few days but I'm looking forward to it.
Ubik by Philip K. DickGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.
I just found out the new François Baranger illustrated Lovecraft was out and ordered it!
Hi Zhasvet.I love Dostoyevsky. Have you read The Brothers Karamazov?
I didn't know either until the list but I'm definitely interested in checking it out.
Hi Mbuye. You're definitely not disqualified. :)
Liane wrote: "Now all that said, I read some other reviews and there are big parts I missed about the setting (a colonized planet?) I may go back and skim to figure out how I missed this, but iI really didn’t enjoy it enough to reread the whole thing."Yeah, they sometimes refer to Urath. That's earth where they came from originally.
Tracey wrote: "I would like to read these. Are they already scheduled for specific months?"No, just something to read this year when you have time. I'm not sure when I'll get to them.
Liane wrote: "I’ve started but slow getting into this. I hope it picks up."How's it going?
Vince wrote: "I've heard that another famous writer who was friends with Zelazny (maybe Gaiman or GRRM) said he wrote Lord of Light around the godawful pun [spoilers removed]. I don't quite believe that, but I'm..."hehe, I guess ideas come in all kinds of weird ways.
John wrote: "I started this one - but simply didn't like it. So in ine with my new resolve to DNF any book that I'm not enjoying, this one has been abandoned."
Oh well. Better luck next time.
Now I really want to try this tiger stripe ice cream!Welcome Enrico. I've only read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen. I definitely plan to read the rest eventually.
Welcome Tatiane. The Count of Monte Cristo is great.Welcome Cynthia. I raid free bins too much too.
Mbuye wrote: "Yes, actually it was. In fact, at its peak, it almost completely obliterated Hinduism in India. One reason: Hinduism has a rigid caste system, while Buddhism has none. The Hindu revival coincided w..."That's interesting. I did see something that said this is Zelazny's version of the rise of Buddhism.
The book was okay but I didn't really love it. There were so many weird info dumpy passages. (view spoiler)
Mbuye wrote: "No, actually it doesn't clash with Hinduism; it follows the Hindu-Jain-Buddhist iconography and characteristics perfectly -- and suddenly it diverges!In any case, I 've put it behind me, and the book's actual plotline is falling into place."
I wasn't commenting on what you said.
In the story Sam recreated Buddhism to undermine the gods.
I was wondering if in the real world Buddhism was at first considered a schism and threat to Hinduism when it started.
I like how it's using sci-fi elements to recreate Indian mythology with reincarnation, karma, demons, etc. Also I thought it might mirror the beginnings of Buddhism. I'd imagine it clashed with Hinduism early on, right?
Wonka was really excellent. The kind of family movie you really don't see anymore.A lot of the new, whimsical things they added seemed a lot like something written by Roald Dahl.
It stuck really close to the 1971 movie though there were some discrepencies.
