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Last book I'm going to finish this year so why not something by the master of shifting perceptions and realities? And if that's what you're looking for, you wont be disappointed with this book.
I don't know if this is one of those stories Dick just sat down and wrote without plan or direction but it certainly felt like it. The story meanders along often taking strange new directions seemingly for no more reason than the author's whim. It's an approach that feels quite familiar now, having read qu ...more
I don't know if this is one of those stories Dick just sat down and wrote without plan or direction but it certainly felt like it. The story meanders along often taking strange new directions seemingly for no more reason than the author's whim. It's an approach that feels quite familiar now, having read qu ...more
One of my very favorite books. Just read it for the fourth time (first time in english), and it never fails to grab me and make me finish it as soon as possible. Again Dick deals with reality vs perception, authenticity and reference points, in what was -at its time- very, very original and provocative.
To quote from a speech of his: "Reality is that, which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". ...more
To quote from a speech of his: "Reality is that, which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". ...more
I'm currently reading this book, and so far I have to say it feels like a dated drug-culture fantasy, like some of the less successful Kurt Vonnegutt Jr. novels. It is full of dated slang, all funky and psychadelic, and has fun with its fantasy of a world where the fuzz smokes legal Columbian Gold marijuana and shares their dope with prisoners. It is wonderfully paranoid--an information world, a police state, and, typical Dick hero, a fellow who doesn't fit in because he wakes up one day and his
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what an amazingly surreal and strange and amazing book, I don't remember MOST of what I've just re-read.
Maybe I thought I'd read this book before but I hadn't, or maybe a parallel-world me read the book once and only fragments of the memory made it to this world.
Here's the summary I crop'd from my first stab at reviewing this book some years ago...
"Philip K Dick didn’t write sci-fi, he wrote books about the human condition. In FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID he illustrates that with the total ...more
Maybe I thought I'd read this book before but I hadn't, or maybe a parallel-world me read the book once and only fragments of the memory made it to this world.
Here's the summary I crop'd from my first stab at reviewing this book some years ago...
"Philip K Dick didn’t write sci-fi, he wrote books about the human condition. In FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID he illustrates that with the total ...more
One of my favorite Dick works. A dystopian tour de force, though if I recall correctly the ending was not perfect.
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