This was my very first PKD novel. I love science fiction and I had heard his were great. It seems I picked the wrong one for sci-fi as there is only a fictional stoner book here. It was a really good book, but I almost felt stoned myself just reading it and I have to assume PKD was stoned writing...
Originally posted here as part of the 30 Day Book Challenge.I am having a REALLY HARD TIME with this category. I already posted a list of Five Book-to-Movie Adaptations I Don't Hate, and the only one I can come up with that probably should have been on the list that didn't make it was High Fidelity...
I've started and restarted this review a number of times. With that in mind, I'm going to take a page from mark monday (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/131922-mark-monday) and share a multi-perspective review.The .gif summation:Recipe for [b:A Scanner Darkly|14817|A Scanner Darkly|Philip K. Dick...
Freakin' brilliant. A difficult, devastating read that delivers a powerful punch to the gut, a blow that's only minimally softened by Philip K. Dick's black humor. A Scanner Darkly is deftly written, an incredible portrait of a gradual degeneration into drug-induced destruction, and one of those u...
Ok, so not exactly my cup of tea. I love PKD. He's brilliant and real in the midst of some of the most mind-bending stories out there. And now I know where all of those crazy ideas came from. This book has been highly praised as a realistic conception of drug abuse, capturing the loss of identity th...
Bob Arctor is a burned-out drug addict who hangs around with his junkie friends having strange rambling conversations about God and drugs and reality. Bob is also an undercover narcotics officer named Fred. Fred has been assigned to monitor a suspected drug dealer named Bob Arctor. Bob/Fred's pro...
So, my very first PKD.For the record, this is 3.5 stars, not 4. I didn't love it, but it definitely grew on me in the end, as it got sadder and Fred's character just spiraled into oblivion. It is a really depressing, somewhat dystopian novel that is set in the mid 90s. PKD's imagination really sh...
Totally worth reading. I think this is one of the author that just instinctively knows how to make twists and turns so that the reader eventually is as drugged as the characters in this book. Loved Robert Arctor, I think he was very well sketched and also loved the ending, it kind of made me read th...
Continued on from: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/176661077Update: I wasn't able to fit all I wanted to say on The Man in the High Castle in the allotted space, so I thought, since it is generalised Dick stuff (which I say advisedly) I could put the rest here:The Superior Person is inexhaustib...
I just really didn't like this book at all. Since the book dealt with the topic of addiction to drugs, I thought I would find a big connection to the book because I have a very close family member who is addicted to heroin. He has suffered very much from this addiction and the family members, myself...
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