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He wrote masterpieces like "The Man In The High Castle", "VALIS" and "The Simulacra" Anyone else here a fan? |
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yes massively |
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you should not forget do androids mary the giant a scanner darkly ubik etc etc etc |
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mary AND |
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only read 'Do Androds...' and Ubik so far, both excellent! |
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I'm reading Second Variety And Other Classic Stories... I read "The Golden Man" which the new movie Next is based on -- the movie totally fucked that story up. Really great stuff. Mind-blowing! |
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i read scanner darkly. loved it. |
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I've read Do Androids Dream and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Both brilliant books, want to read more! |
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me me me! |
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Yes - I read most of his books in my late teens and early twenties, then had to stop. Since then, I've mainly dipped. |
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He has been my favorite author for so many years. I've read tons of his stuff and agree on most of the big mentions here, for instance UBIK which is the best thing ever. For a lighter book, I recommend The game-players of titan, which is tons of fun. But if you want something SEVERELY fucked like ubik, try THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH (holy fuck it is good). I liked the scanner darkly movie when I saw it, but I hate blade runner. pkd stories are all about the psychological bit, what's going on in everyone's head! He does a wonderful job transferring the confusion of the lead character to your own head, wow I get disoriented in some of those stories. and he does it in such a way that you sometimes CAN'T answer all the questions in the end, it leaves room for you to speculate and speculate. this used to bother me but now I think that is great. I mean, yeah, in real life you are never certain about anything. And that's part of his deepest point, real life is FUCKED. fuckin' rules. |
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I'll also note that I have not enjoyed the short stories of his which I've read. This is in contrast to ROGER ZELAZNY, whose short stories I like, but long novels I dislike. ACtually I like anything of his up to around 80 pages. more, no thank you. |
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I'm exactly the same--I bought two big compilations of PKD short stories, and left most of them unread since I just couldn't get into them at all. |
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Philip K Dick on xltronic/mb (please post a the mp3 files of the afx sets in warehouse and ATP,thankx all and from the bottom of my heart,have a nice xmas.07*) |
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i know the writer but not read no books. it looks that was and still be futuristic in the way write the society in a mental-methapysichs things rules. btw if someone knows about the mp3 sets it would be grateful totally,thanks again.have nice xmas 07* |
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i've read half a dozen of his books, most of which were amazingly fun, including man in the high castle and valis (together with its two 'sequels')... he wrote so much it's no wonder many of his lesser books are truly that: lesser, and less interesting. But it's equally surprising how many psychologically rich and metaphysically interesting he managed to write during his paranoid-addict years. |
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+books |
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he was my favourite writer when i was in my mid teens. |
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