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I’m a big PKD fan, but this book amplifies the worst parts of his writing. The initial premise shows promise, but is never fully realized into anything substantial. If I didn’t have the context from having read and loved some of his other novels, I’m not sure I would have been able to find much value in this at all.
“Batshit Crazy!” Like all the books by Dick dealing with ‘mental health/mental illness’ [“Now Wait for Last Year,” “Martian Time-Slip,” “Valis,” etc.] this one has also NOT been adapted for film! Yay! I read this in three ‘sittings’ - one really a prone position in the comfy hotel bed where I live in Bahia Solano in far, remote NW Coastal Colombia.
I feel very much as if I were on another planet at times, especially when I’m dreaming, and I see this novel is right up my alley, in my wheelhouse, ...more
I feel very much as if I were on another planet at times, especially when I’m dreaming, and I see this novel is right up my alley, in my wheelhouse, ...more
frik. does it ever come to pass that you can't remember whether you read a particular PKD book?
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I think this is the fastest I ever read a PKD book.
Also, of the 3 PKD books I have w/ the Masters of Science Fiction covers (the other two are The Zap Gun and The Penultimate Truth, this cover makes the least sense. Okay, so you have PKD in the middle, yeah, that makes sense, he wrote it. The bug thing fits, it's an Alphane. (There's a moon in the background, too.) But who the hell is the guy in the overcoat?! ...more
Also, of the 3 PKD books I have w/ the Masters of Science Fiction covers (the other two are The Zap Gun and The Penultimate Truth, this cover makes the least sense. Okay, so you have PKD in the middle, yeah, that makes sense, he wrote it. The bug thing fits, it's an Alphane. (There's a moon in the background, too.) But who the hell is the guy in the overcoat?! ...more
Philip K. Dick was a misogynist fuck, and this book is one of the best examples of that failure of his personality. It is, paradoxically, a wonderful look at a world i would never have been able to imagine, a sign of a mind i dearly appreciate having been able to glimpse in Dick's work.
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This is from Dick's hyper-active, hand-to-mouth period. Yet it's very interesting, funny but tragic at the same time - something that probably reflects Dick's outlook at the time.
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Feb 22, 2008
Sonky
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