A Maze Of Death (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003FXCSM2
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Gateway
Pages no: 219
Edition language: English
So here we go. Philip K Dick is an odd duck - to me. I really enjoy the concept of this novel but I didn't enjoy the writing and the parts where a psychadelic experiences of the characters. That put me off, as I said, to me.To other people I bet they would enjoy it... it's no wonder that he won seve...
This book should be called "And Then There Were Gelatinous Replicating Cubes". It's kind of a Dick take on Agatha Christie style whodunit -- a locked planet mystery, if you will. Fourteen people are reassigned to a small settlement on a planet known as Delmak-O without being told why or what their m...
A Maze of Death is one of Phillip K. Dick's most aggravating books. It is almost unbearably dark and loaded with insensitive protagonists who often act like spoiled brats. And just as you think you figured it out, it becomes even more nihilistic and disorganized.It is also one of Dick's best novels....
As usual, PKD plays with his characters', and his readers', perceptions of reality. Written from the points-of-view from several characters, neither they nor we are really sure which, if any of them, is experiencing what is actually happening.A group of strangers dissatisfied with their former lives...
read this some years ago, and was duly unimpressed. a small group of people are trapped on some mysterious planet, but other than some sort of matter compiler-fauna and a distant mysterious building, there is little to recommend this work except one mildly lyrical passage about a person's death. for...