Eldric Storm Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I personally love Philip K. Dick so far. Read a couple of his books and found them to be very entertaining. It's interesting to note that the guy had so many mental problems (schizophrenia as well as permafried from drugs). Man In The High Castle was somewhat slow but very interesting. I have yet to read the "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep," but heard it's great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EruditeFool Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 A Scanner Darkly is really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Yeah, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is one of my favourite books and funny enough Blade Runner IS my favourite movie of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kojiro Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is sitting on one of my bookshelves presently. I haven't gotten around to reading yet, but I think I'll be doing something about that soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I have not read all of Dick's but all I read was worthwhile. Although several novels end somewhat disappointingly: either very surprisingly without all narrative strains really converging or just petering out. Dick was borderline crazy, you can probably find online the story of a religious epiphany he had which is also connected to some of his stories. (Bottom line is that we somehow? (spiritually?) still are in the 1st century AD, early christians oppressed by Rome, but the devil? somehow makes us believe we are in the 20th (this was in the 1970s) so we would despair that the Second Coming took so long. Dick "realized" this by certain encounters with people that parallel certain episodes in the Acts of the Apostles.) http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm Maybe overall the shorter stories (like Minority Report) are better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kojiro Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I thought his "religious epiphany" was the VALIS satellite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Bucket the Voluminous Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 LOVE Philip Dick. Absolutely one of my favorite others. Really enjoyed Androids of course, Man In High Tower, Crack In Space, all quite quite good. There was also a book of some of his short stories that I read a while ago and all those were superb as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I don't know why I haven't read more PKD to be honest with you...only Do Androids Dream and A Scanner Darkly...must remedy this soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Bucket the Voluminous Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Meh, it gets harder to make time to read the older you get, tbh. Either your at work or you're at home drinking trying to forget work. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChillyPolly Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I think I admire PKD more as a short-story writer than anything else. I have read 4 of the 5 volumes of his complete short stories. I have read, I think, six of his novels. DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP was the one that made the most impression on me. It is an anti-robot story, unlike the film. The others (A Maze of Death; A Scanner Darkly; Confessions of a Crap Artist; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; The Transmigration of Timothy Archer) have left less of an impression with me, though I vaguely recall sort of liking the first two of these at the time I read them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I don't know why I haven't read more PKD to be honest with you...only Do Androids Dream and A Scanner Darkly...must remedy this soon... Same here, I've only read two of his books (DADOES and The Man in the Hight Castle in my case) but feel I should read more. I do have a copy of Ubik so it would make sense to read that next out of his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Same here, I've only read two of his books (DADOES and The Man in the Hight Castle in my case) but feel I should read more. I do have a copy of Ubik so it would make sense to read that next out of his books. I think I might read The Man in the High Castle next of his tbh; heard good things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I think I might read The Man in the High Castle next of his tbh; heard good things. I liked it, it's got what is probably one of the most memorable alternate histories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasp of Many Reeds Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Have read 5 or 6 Dick novels, always interesting, often odd. Time Out of Joint and Counter-Clock World are underrated little gems of his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpeek Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 My favourite is THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. I also quite liked UBIK. I didn't really like DO ANDROIDS DREAMS OF ELECTRIC SHEEP. Personally, I think it's one of his weaker novels. But that said, I think the joy of Dick is not any one singular novel, but the body of work, and the whole of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 This edition of The Man in the High Castle is absolutely sexy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I think I might read The Man in the High Castle next of his tbh; heard good things. Back in the 70's, while I was a teenager, I read a lot of PKD's stuff. There is some uneven stuff considering his lifestyle then but if you can find a collection of his short stories, that is where he did his best work. Not that the novels weren't good also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChillyPolly Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 There is some uneven stuff considering his lifestyle then but if you can find a collection of his short stories, that is where he did his best work. Not that the novels weren't good also. I'm glad someone agrees with me about the short stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 It's been a while but one novel I did find disappointing was "Now wait for last year". Even "The man in the high castle" and "A scanner, darkly" do not have very satisfying endings (but in those cases it is probably on purpose). In any case the latter must be one of the most chilling literary descriptions of a) drug addiction and b) surveillance state methods including agents provocateurs. Another one I think I found very impressive (although also depressing) is "Martian timeslip". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Writhen Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Only PKD I've actually read is Androids because Blade Runner is in my top 5 all-time flicks. I've also seen Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report. Want to read much more of his stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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