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1. madaxe+(OP)[view] [source] 2018-06-20 07:49:37
If that’s the only book of his you’ve read, you’re really missing out - it’s good, but not his best.

I would recommend, and you are welcome to ignore should you choose:

Ubik

Flow my tears, the policeman said

Dr Bloodmoney

Radio Free Albemuth

Time out of joint

A scanner darkly

Mary and the giant

And finally as an aside, 334 by Thomas Disch.

Fun fact: Dick shopped Disch to the feds for in his view pedalling anti-American views. These letters are fascinating - and Radio Free Albemuth might ring some bells.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/07/neo-nazis-syphilis-and-...

PKD has an uncanny grasp on the reality-busting nature of our current reality, and the above books are a decent primer in his way of thinking. The list is by no means complete, just what trips out of my head as “Good PKD”.

His non-sf works, like Mary and the Giant and Confessions of a Crap Artist, I did not understand in the slightest as a younger man. Now I read them, and their realities are palpable, sordid, tawdry, and utterly real.

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2. dolzen+Qb[view] [source] 2018-06-20 10:51:08
>>madaxe+(OP)
Is the feds story real or the result of stimulants abuse?
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3. madaxe+6h[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-06-20 11:51:34
>>dolzen+Qb
To give you a Dick answer... who’s to say what’s real?

Most likely the latter, but honestly, I don’t know. Disch’s work did change fairly radically and suddenly, but that’s not to say there was an external influence.

4. Finnuc+gr[view] [source] 2018-06-20 13:23:05
>>madaxe+(OP)
If you like Confessions of a Crap Artist, you should try to see the French film adaptation, Barjo. My recollection is that it was a pretty good version, but it is now more than 25 years since I've seen it.
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5. madaxe+Dv[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-06-20 13:58:10
>>Finnuc+gr
Ooh, I had no idea that existed - thanks!
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