I'm a big Pynchon fan, too, so don't get me wrong here, but it seems to me like the main difference between Dick's writing style and Pynchon's--or at least, the difference that mostly accounts for Dick being treated as a "pulp" author with some interesting ideas whereas Pynchon is considered a major...
At first I wasn't liking this book very much, but I persevered and I must say after the story really got going I thoroughly enjoyed it.Bob Arctor/Fred is an undercover nark who, due to the nature of his work, becomes a drug addict himself. As Fred he is also ordered to start surveillance on Bob Arct...
This book is so open to pastiche. Chicks, straights, narks and like that could all do one. So I won't bother; there are a bunch of them on Goodreads already. PKD here writes a Requiem for a Dream decades before that film came out, showing from a convincing internal viewpoint what the disintegratio...
I started reading Dick with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and now five novels in have enjoyed every subsequent novel more than my first. This book is very much a Dick novel in that it is first and foremost concerned with personal identity. It is also concerned with the symbiotic relationship...
Meh. PKD had all the elements for a perfectly ingenious story but he drowned it all in unresolved subplots, endless conversations amongst stoned-out-of-their-minds junkies, psychological insights of the shallowest sort, disjointed and unresolved would-be plot twists, a half-sketched conspiracy that ...
My favorite PKD books tend to be those published in the 60s when he was writing wacky fun reality warping sci-fi like [b:Ubik|22590|Ubik|Philip K. Dick|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327995569s/22590.jpg|62929], [b:The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch|14185|The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch|Phi...
3.5 starsDick always did have a fascination for the workings of the mind, whether perceiving "reality" (We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, the basis for Total Recall) or identity (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner). This book combines the two topics in a story where many things are...
I can't call this my favorite PKD. of his seven major works (= 10,000 ratings or more), this is my sixth, and I guess I feel the same way as I felt about Neil Gaiman's [b:Coraline|17061|Coraline|Neil Gaiman|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327871014s/17061.jpg|2834844],--viz, shock, horro...
A dark, haunting masterpiece. A Scanner Darkly isn't just a great book, it's an IMPORTANT book!Phillip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly follows the journey of Bob Arctor, an undercover police officer (code-named "Fred") trying to ingratiate himself into the drug culture in an attempt to bring down the sup...
This book was a gift to me by my brother-in-law. I put off reading it entirely too long, but I guess you could blame the aphids. Jerry Fabbin is a drug addict--addicted to Substance D. Because of the drug he sees aphids crawling all over him and his dog. If you can make it past the aphids you will p...
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