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Aug 26, 2008
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Another fantastic book by Philip K. Dick, but then again he is my favorite author so I might be a little biased. This book however didn't have as much of the "mind-blowing" aspects to it as some of his other books. None the less it was a great read. It still had a somewhat "Dickian" storyline, however, just not that wow factor I was talking about. If it had a little more of that than the book would have been easily a 5 star book, but instead I am going with 4. Another reason is because I wish it ...more
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 time travel and other-wordly madness to make sure that the reader is never quite sure whether the book is actually occurring or just another figment of Dick's endless paranoid mindfuck.
This time the st ...more
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Great story that builds to a gripping climax and keeps you guessing right until the end.
Really interesting to see that this, The Zap Gun, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch were all written (or at least conceived) in the same year (along with Clans of the Alphane Moon, which I read before this). Granted, yes, the whole thing fits together like several different jigsaw puzzles all squished into one big picture, but then again, most of his novels are like that. And (at least as far as I'm concerned) it's that writing quality that the afterword compared to "downhill racing" (ju
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This was one of the first PKD books I've ever read and as such it blew my mind. However, the writing is not the best and while the story is great it doesn't have the maturity of his other novels.
Still, worth reading to compare it with the opening chapters of the Wool saga! ...more
Still, worth reading to compare it with the opening chapters of the Wool saga! ...more
Phillip K. Dick knew more about reality than most of us. This book proves the point.
