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review of my first read and a second read 10 months later:
VALIS is the most autobiographical novel PKD wrote. With Dick my favorite author and VALIS one of his most highly regarded novels I expected to love it. But the problem is that it isn't an autobiography. What happened to Dick in 1974 is fascinating, but there is where I'd recommend reading a biography or watching a documentary, rather than turning to VALIS. VALIS was just boring to me, failing to be true enough to be an autobiography and ...more
VALIS is the most autobiographical novel PKD wrote. With Dick my favorite author and VALIS one of his most highly regarded novels I expected to love it. But the problem is that it isn't an autobiography. What happened to Dick in 1974 is fascinating, but there is where I'd recommend reading a biography or watching a documentary, rather than turning to VALIS. VALIS was just boring to me, failing to be true enough to be an autobiography and ...more
Holy moley...this books rules, rules, rules. I started reading PKD with UBIK which I didn't really like. Valis, on the other hand rules it. This has many of my favorite subjects: psychosis, paranoia, anxiety, split personalities, the god head, universal religiosity and so on. You can actually smell a nervous breakdown in the pages of this book!
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Oct 21, 2008
Evils
marked it as to-read
Nov 30, 2008
Mark
marked it as to-read
Dec 01, 2008
Enrique
marked it as to-read
Jan 14, 2009
Zeke
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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Mar 31, 2009
Forrest
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Apr 10, 2009
Sarah
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review of another edition
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May 10, 2009
denise
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Aug 17, 2009
Sarbjit
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Sep 22, 2009
Danna
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