by Philip K. Dick
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't that interesting either. I read this immediately after The Man in the High Castle, so the question of "what is real?" was already a central theme. This book didn't seem to add much to that beyond a spiritual detour. Beyond that, most of the characters have little investm...
Don't take "Dick at his strangest" lightly. This one's weird. Not where you would want to start with PKD.
After watching Looper I asked my companion to recommend a Philip K. Dick book to me, and he recommended this one. I have always intended to read PKD but never bit the bullet, and I'm glad that I liked it as much as I hoped I would, and surprised that it reminded me so much of reading Kurt Vonnegut (...
Reading this book felt a bit like dreaming, after a while it became like a dream within a dream, soon after it became like full on Inception!. Without going into the synopsis in any detail (;) this novel features a drug induced virtual reality, initially with the aid of Ken and Barbie-like dolls in ...
This book is cool enough and all, but the ending is really hard to get a grip on. Every reader will come away with a different perception of the ultimate meaning of this book.
When I told a friend (who is very well-read in sci-fi) that I was reading a Philip K. Dick book, his immediate reaction was, "Does it make you feel like you're actually, genuinely insane while you're reading it?" He did not mean this in a positive way, either.Thankfully, the book that I picked up as...
I read the french translation a very long time ago. I just remember I liked it. Can't rememmber what it was about.
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