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It amazes me that Dick wasn't able to get any of his realist novels published before he made it in sci-fi. Maybe I just don't read enough literary fiction to recognize quality, but this book was phenomenal in my eyes.
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A great read for PKD fans. It does look and read like an early novel, but most ingredients for his later works are here - the no-good hero, the wife, the hunting world conspiring against him, the bitter-sweet ending... It's actually very interesting to see how Dick was experimenting with his ideas (even the same characters) during his early works.
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Amazing book I must say. Feels like one of Dick's SF efforts from the early 60s, more so than Puttering or Mary. Only this one takes us to an early stage of California's out of control growth. Chris Harmon has his place as another one of PKD's enigmatic characters.
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Sep 26, 2008
Ubik
marked it as dick
Feb 02, 2011
Palmer Eldritch
marked it as to-read
May 07, 2013
Michael
marked it as to-read
Aug 15, 2014
Christopher Jamieson-Green
marked it as to-read
