A Scanner Darkly in Philip K Dick

Mar 26, 2014 Karl rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Read this one at work when it came out. This is funny as I was the first hired civilian working for the Department of Public Safety.

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Apr 01, 2009 Byron 'Giggsy' Paul rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: drug-drug-druggy, dystopia, favorites, phildickian, cult-classics, transgressive, read-multiple-times, multistable_perception, unreliable-narrator, kafkaesque

We should be teaching this book to high school kids, instead of Great Expectations

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Apr 11, 2013 David Agranoff rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: dark-humor, political-science-fiction, paranoia, old-school-sci-fi, drugs, philip-k-dick, science-fiction-masterpiece, bizarro, weird-crime, spy-novel

I am very excited to review this for the podcast. This was my second experience with the novel, if you don't count seeing the VERY FAITHFUL film that adapts much of the novel word for word. This is not my favorite PKD, that would be Three Stigmata but there is a strong argument that it is his best. Stay tuned for the podcast in Feb/mar 22. ...more

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Feb 10, 2009 stormhawk rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reread, book-club

A Scanner Darkly is not an easy novel to read. There is no real sense of normal or everyday ... all of the character interactions are driven by pathology, either of the drugs, or of a paranoiac's vision of the world around him, watchers and watched who watch the watchers and ...

I have a quote from the author's afterword pinned up at my desk. I've had it there for many years, back from when I first read this novel, and was struck by the truth of the statement ...

"Drug misuse is not a disease, i ...more

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