From the Bookshelf of Philip K. Dick…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
[review 1]
pig hearts
[review 2]
I must admit I am a little perplexed. I’ve never been one for novels in which bourgeois jerks act like jerks and we’re supposed to snicker / cry. It’s an entire sub-genre of American literature I have intentionally censured on ideological grounds. So how this particular book stacks up with the rest of that is a little up in the air for me. I would take Lethem’s word that it stacks up lickity split but really I can’t believe it considering what makes Dick horrible, a ...more
pig hearts
[review 2]
I must admit I am a little perplexed. I’ve never been one for novels in which bourgeois jerks act like jerks and we’re supposed to snicker / cry. It’s an entire sub-genre of American literature I have intentionally censured on ideological grounds. So how this particular book stacks up with the rest of that is a little up in the air for me. I would take Lethem’s word that it stacks up lickity split but really I can’t believe it considering what makes Dick horrible, a ...more
Probably an under-appreciated Dick gem. Less sci-fi than most of his works, quite sad and a but unsettling.
Mar 15, 2009
Patton McGinley
marked it as to-read
Dec 25, 2011
Invadozer Misothorax Circular-thallus Popewaffensquat
rated it
it was ok
Shelves:
fiction
Oct 27, 2012
Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
1950s,
favourite,
animal,
ab-do,
1970s,
author-favorites,
fiktion,
klassiker,
romane,
historische
Dec 16, 2013
David
added it
Jan 13, 2014
Richard Feingold
marked it as to-read
Aug 15, 2014
Christopher Jamieson-Green
marked it as to-read
