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A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780879979232 (0879979232)
Publisher: Daw Books (NYC)
Pages no: 222
Edition language: English
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Science Fiction
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it
4.0 Who am I? : "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick
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...
CDRBill
CDRBill rated it
4.0 A Scanner Darkly
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...
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog rated it
3.5 A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
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...
zaczytany
zaczytany rated it
3.0 "Przez ciemne zwierciadło" Philip K. Dick
Sieczka z mózgu. Tak można krótkim stwierdzeniem streścić tę ksiażkę. I to nie tylko o nasz mózg chodzi, lecz bardziej o stan umysłu głównego bohatera. Przywykłem już do tego, że Dick serwuje literaturę wymagajacą, skłaniającą do przemyśleń i głębszego zastanowienia sie nad tym, co właśnie przelecia...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it
4.5 Dick's A Scanner Darkly
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...
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