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If anyone is a lover of this book, we should unite and try to get it made into a film. Philip K Dick deserves to have his best material introduced to everyone, I haven't seen the Minority Report yet but I figure it's been mangled by Hollywood. I'm still going to check it. Dickheads Unite! Akkad |
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i'm with you there - his books are amazing! |
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I sometimes felt strange reading that book, like as if the madness was contagious (spelling?). That part where what's-his-name gets to ask about his cat is hilarious. |
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I love most of PKD's stuff, but his religious work baffles me completely!!! |
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VALIS was crazy! I loved it! Horselover Fat! PKD!! |
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Dickheads Unite |
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dickhedz |
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amazing book dikhedz uni |
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"This chick," Luckman droned on, "had gotten knocked up, and she applied for an abortion because she'd missed like four periods and she was conspicuously swelling up. She did nothing but gripe about the cost of the abortion; she couldn't get on public assistance for some reason. One day I was over at her place, and this girl friend of hers was there telling her she only had a hysterical pregnancy. 'You just _want_ to believe you're pregnant,' the chick was flattering at her. 'It's a guilt trip. And the abortion, and the heavy bread it's going to cost you, that's a penance trip.' So the chick-- I really dug her--she looked up calmly and she said, 'Okay, then if it's a hysterical pregnancy I'll get a hysterical abortion and pay for it with hysterical money.' Arctor said, "I wonder whose face is on the hysterical five-dollar bill." "Well, who was our most hysterical President?" "Bill Falkes. He only _thought_ he was President." "When did he think he served?" "He imagined he served two terms back around 1882. Later on after a lot of therapy he came to imagine he served only one term--" - A Scanner Darkly, PKD BTW, Hi. FM |
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Hello Fleetmouse :) This Mr. Dick, is it?, sounds like a very interesting author, I shall look into him... |
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ZT: PKD is available sporadically on alt.binaries.ebook or something like that. I forget the exact Usenet group but it's one of the few with "book" in the title which probably says stuff about the sad state of modern society yada yada. I have no guilt over pirating his books 'cause he's dead and shit. To get back to the original subject of this thread, a Valis movie would be cool, but only if it preserved the trippy 70s feeling of the book. A Scanner Darkly is like that too--it seems to be set in the 80s or 90s, but all the cultural references are 1970s dopehead California. Anachronistic by now, kind of an inadvertent alternate history, unlike Man in the High Castle which was a deliberate alternate history. Fella captured two things better than any author I've read: paranoid druggy feeling like you're losing your mind, and the angst of being in love with someone who's incapable of returning it. This in addition to his unique gift for folding the timespace of his plots inside out in a way that messes with your loaf. |
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very true! |
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Damn, I feel like I just read a review on this author. Nice job, FM :) |
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yeah fleetmouse, nice description -- everyone should read his work, no kiddin |
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