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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers go cyberpunk. All that's missing is Fat Freddy's cat.
No, really, that's the best way to describe "A Scanner Darkly". It's half a bleakly hilarious insider satire of 1970's stoner culture, half a convincing portrait of a near-future high-tech surveillance state... kinda like the main character's double life as a cop and a drug dealer whose wares cause split personality disorder in users.
It's also clear here how much quitting the drugs in the mid-1970's changed Ph ...more
No, really, that's the best way to describe "A Scanner Darkly". It's half a bleakly hilarious insider satire of 1970's stoner culture, half a convincing portrait of a near-future high-tech surveillance state... kinda like the main character's double life as a cop and a drug dealer whose wares cause split personality disorder in users.
It's also clear here how much quitting the drugs in the mid-1970's changed Ph ...more
It’s in my top five PKD novels.
PKD really slowed down his pace, it seems, when the 1970s rolled around. But what we saw was PKD entering into an age of writing “down to earth” novels — like this one and Flow My Tears.
A Scanner Darkly and Flow My Tears are the two most realistic and detailed PKD novels I think I’ve ever read. I call them his “down to earth” novels because the plots are far less reaching and more grounded in reality. These along with A Maze of Death are also his darkest novels - a ...more
PKD really slowed down his pace, it seems, when the 1970s rolled around. But what we saw was PKD entering into an age of writing “down to earth” novels — like this one and Flow My Tears.
A Scanner Darkly and Flow My Tears are the two most realistic and detailed PKD novels I think I’ve ever read. I call them his “down to earth” novels because the plots are far less reaching and more grounded in reality. These along with A Maze of Death are also his darkest novels - a ...more
PKD is one of my favorite authors, but this was a very tough read for me. The plot was great; I connected with the characters; etc… In other words, I cannot and will not criticize this book. Guess it was just hard reading about Bob/Fred/Bruce’s decent into an addiction and the final outcome. Liked the ending though.
May 20, 2012
Xiri
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Sue Watson
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Steve Wattay
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Sarah
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