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A classic PKD novel. The plot opens describing a 50's era setting that is the picture of middle-class normalcy only to unravel into increasing levels of surrealism and paranoia. The book is a good example of a reoccuring PKD theme that appears in many of his novels, that of stripping the veneer from what is seemingly reality at the beginning of the story only to reveal a very different and much stranger reality by story's end.
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เนื่องจากอ่านเล่มนี้ก่อน Do Androids dream of electric sheep? และได้ชั่งตวงความประทับใจแล้ว ขอลดดาว Do Androids จาก5 เป็น 4 และให้ Time out of joint ไป 5 ดาว แม้จะไม่อินเท่าไหร่ แต่เล่มนี้ก็ทำให้รู้สึกนอยได้ระดับหนึ่ง ขอบพระคุณวันหยุดปีใหม่ที่ทำให้ได้อ่านหนังสือจบไปได้อีกหนึ่งเล่ม
I read this novel when I was 9 and it blew my mind. Although I wasn't formally exposed to some of the philosophical ideas in play here until college, this gave me plenty to think about and opened my eyes to the possibilities present in speculative fiction. Ultimately, reading PKD, in tandemn with working at a theme park, gave me a framework with which to understand the post-post modern world and its control systems, simulacrums and traps.
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Dick comes out in real force to explore his favorite topics of shifting realities, dystopian futures and loss of perception. A rather early, but fascinating novel.
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