From the Bookshelf of Philip K Dick

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October 8, 2011
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December 8, 2011
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What Members Thought

Michael
Dec 12, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: science-fiction
Dizzyingly layered; demands to be re-read, but not until my head has stopped swimming.

Whether you buy-in to Dick's religious/philosophical position or not, there's certainly lots to think about and, if you make it through to the end, it will stay with you for a long time.

As is usual with PKD, there's much here about the nature and perception of reality and what it is to be human. There's a big chunk of auto-biography and painful honesty. Where PKD deals with characters, they are by turns funny,
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