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furoi
from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2006-01-23 03:49 [#01824891]
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i'm getting totally addicted to his novels
i'm actually reading "the three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
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zombie
on 2006-01-23 03:58 [#01824899]
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Just finished reading the collection of short stories We Can Remeber It For You Wholesale which had some amazing ideas in it.
I've heard that Palmer Eldritch is one of his better books and hope to get round to reading that someday.
Apparently they've just made a film version of A Scanner Darkly.
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Jarworski
from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2006-01-23 04:01 [#01824900]
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He's good, I need to read more stuff.
A Scanner Darkly looks damn good.
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furoi
from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2006-01-23 04:01 [#01824901]
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yea yea the movie should come out soon ubik is also great the man in the high castle too.... maybe just some short novels are not that good
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obara
from Utrecht on 2006-01-23 04:07 [#01824903]
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i read some of his novels in the times when i read books. He's Unique.
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Falito
from Balenciaga on 2006-01-23 04:45 [#01824928]
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Yes,I am... philip got VISION and can tell to US
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thatne
from United States on 2006-01-23 05:35 [#01824953]
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dont know much about the man but his novels are fine.
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hinotori
on 2006-01-23 06:21 [#01824971]
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top skills and funky fr fr fr freeeesssshhhh
p.k.d is to the manor born!
i love that duder!
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2006-01-23 07:02 [#01824986]
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A Scanner Darkly, was my favorite book of all time, until I read VALIS (Also by PKD).
Its truely amazing.
Read the trilogy (the novels aren't related, its just a trilogy, because its the last 3 books he wrote, after having a "religious" experience.
If you don't know a lot about philosophy/religious philosophy, I'd advise looking into before reading VALIS. I was lucky enough to take a philosophy or religion class the semester before I read it, and if I hadn't, I don't think I would have understood half of what he was talking about, and even still, I kept having to put the book down, go online, and look up works and religious/mythological ideas/characters.
To give a very superficial rundown of the story, a man goes insane after the death of a close friend, and basically shuts himself up, trying to write a rationalization(to an insane man) for God, using religious, philisophical, and mythical characters and ideas.
the other 2 books in the trilogy are "The Divine Invasion," and "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer"
also, when you finish the trilogy, read Radio Free Albemuth. It was the first book he wrote in this line of books, but the publisher rejected it, so we went back and wrote VALIS. There is a lot of similiar plot things, and ideas, but its different. It is good, but VALIS is definately far superior.
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pigster
from melbs on 2006-01-23 07:13 [#01824993]
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I'm Phil K's biggest dick fan.
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DaggerHappy
from Australia on 2006-01-23 07:13 [#01824994]
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damn, i thought this topic was going to be about an electronic artists i know called phil k. you boys played me like a fiddle.
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2006-01-23 07:55 [#01825039]
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‚A scanner darkly' reminds us of the strange thing called multiple personalities. Philip K. Dick is narratating a story about someone who was becoming ill by means of drugs. He split up into a paranoide computer-like thinking genius and a depressive emotional guy, who is a lonely stranger looking for having fun with no direction in life. Dick let this be explained by means of a splitting of the two hemispheres of the brain. This is a very interesting theory represented here, because in reality schizophrenia in general let people tend to divide the world into ‚calculating' and ‚emphatizing'. Dick just shows us an extremal case, but the key to the solution of this disease is unanswered here. There's needed a mechanism, which let both parts of a brain - logical and emotional - interfere in some let's say natural or usual way
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NIL-0
from trans pennine express on 2006-01-25 05:47 [#01826702]
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PKD was truely on one. All of the books mentioned above are worth seeking out - VALIS especially is a very interesting read. Other titles not mentioned yet which i would recommend are - Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Doctor Bloodmoney and The Man in the High Castle.
Although often written in a quirky style these books are interesting in that they speak more about todays fragmented reality a lot more than any other sci fi written at same time.
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hinotori
on 2006-01-25 06:06 [#01826717]
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if you aint into reading too much, nor too up on philosophy etc,....then dont start with a scanner darkly.
he has way more "accessable" novels....though a scanner darkly is one of his all time greatest
a great starter is his collected short stories. each packs a great idea per day as they are very short to read and will get you loving the man and understanding how his writing progressed.
then you can delve into the larger novels which youd prefer to read, based on your chronalogical experience of his shorts.
i received his collected essays and philosophical writtings from amazon today......... great so far!
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rogu rarebit
from beggin' for leggings on 2006-01-25 06:47 [#01826736]
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I am a fan hello.
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staz
on 2006-01-25 07:43 [#01826763]
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'Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?' is absolutely a worthy read as well.
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glasseater
from Switzerland on 2006-01-25 08:44 [#01826799]
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boafff... Im reading so many sci-fi books that i cannot say P K Dick is my favorite. Sturgeon that is.
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esaruoho
from helsinki (Finland) on 2006-01-27 17:36 [#01828677]
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really rate this guy. id love to list what iäve read but all i can remember is "ubik","the three stigmata of palmer eldritch", "galactic pot-healer" "a scanner darkly" "time out of joint", "vulcan hammer"(..) and so on. i'm probaly missing around 3-4-5 books more but cant remember any names. bah!
also read this biography, called "i am alive and you are dead", which was very powerful. .. well thats not exactly the word - started getting into quite weird moods because of perceived parallels.
honestly, good stuff.
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mandcee
on 2006-01-28 10:26 [#01829047]
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P.K.D is awesome yes ! middle peroid ones are the most acid...3 stigmata of palmer eldritch is mad, dr bloodmoney is a good one, i got well hooked on him after i read valis ,scanner darkly is mint! check him asap i reckon:) look online for excerpts from the exegesis for some proper acid nuttiness
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mandcee
on 2006-01-28 10:27 [#01829048]
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robert anton wilson is mint aswell !!!!!!
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magicant
from Canada on 2006-01-28 10:28 [#01829049]
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PKD is entertaining...but shit, reading his VALIS trilogy feels like i need to be on some strong hallucinogens to enjoy it fully.
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furoi
from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2006-01-28 10:43 [#01829055]
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yea damn it was published in italy....but now it's out of commerce (except sometimes on ebay)
but i suppose the new publisher would put it out again
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