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| Phillip K Dick Discussions on the books and writings of Phillip K Dick. |
24th September 2009, 11:16 PM
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| Re: Philip K Dick There's a sub-forum for PKD in here. I'd imagine this thread will be moved there shortly. As for the question, i really don't have much experience outside of his short stories (which are incredible BTW) really. There are plenty that i want to read though. A Scanner Darkly being at the top of my list. |
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25th September 2009, 12:14 AM
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| Re: Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly is just fantastic. Dick's insight into the link between drug use and paranoia is portrayed brilliantly. Dick's work can be quite hard to follow at times, and more than often his writing is very inconsistent, but it's definitely worth working through as he came up with some great stories. |
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25th September 2009, 12:55 AM
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| Re: Philip K Dick He was ahead of his time and he writes about themes,about real human characters that makes him one of the best writers i have read. I like everything he does that i have read and his short stories are much better than people think. They are more edgy,crisp writing wise. |
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25th September 2009, 03:31 AM
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| Re: Philip K Dick Seriously everything I have read of his I have enjoyed to some degree or another. Reading PKD then moving onto another author just feels foreign to me, so I have laid off him for a while. Out of all the novels I have read of his, "The Ganymede Takeover" felt the weakest. My personal favourite (if I REALLY had to choose one) would have to be "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said" I also have to agree with Connavar. His short stories are nothing short of amazing. The one short that has always stuck with me was "The Pre-Persons". The concept of being able to abort your children up until the age of 12 or so was just nasty. |
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25th September 2009, 07:12 AM
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| Re: Philip K Dick favourites? Flow my Tears the Policeman Said is actually next on the to read pile but out of the ones I've already read I'd say Ubik is probably the strongest/ most complete story but I still have a soft spot for Time out of Joint despite the ending. |
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25th September 2009, 08:36 AM
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| Pretentious Avatar Alert.  | Re: Philip K Dick favourites? A Scanner Darkly and Flow my Tears for me, though that's a hard choice to make. I really like his seventies stuff. One area where he really broke from the 50's/60's herd was in having his main characters be everyday guys rather than superheroes with a destiny. There just trying to pay the bills and then everything goes crazy... |
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25th September 2009, 03:28 PM
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| Re: Philip K Dick favourites? Quote:
Bingo ! His characters feel like normal people, they arent uber smart science heroes that will save the world, or action heroes. They are messed up people that usually work for some company or like Dekkard where even being a Bounty Hunter isnt written like its a cool job. | |
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25th September 2009, 04:45 PM
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