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jwharris28
Posted 2015-05-27 7:55 PM (#10635 - in reply to #10633)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Weesam - 2015-05-27 7:33 PM And there I go again, not logged in. I really wish someone could sort out why that 'keep me logged in' button no longer works. That was me above.

Philip K. Dick is much different from other science fiction writers. It's funny how were all so different, and resonate with different writers. I took to PKD when I first discovered him in high school. The first book I remember reading was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. It was 1968 and I can still see it on the new 7-day book shelf. I was at the Coconut Grove Library branch, in Miami, Florida. I pulled it down because of the strange cover. I took it home and read it, and thought it very weird indeed. I really didn't start getting into PKD until later though, around 1973 or 1974, when I started doing drugs regularly, and was blown away by The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I gave up drugs a couple years later, and sort of forgot PKD for a while. Then I got him to him again, when I started reading his mainstream novels that started coming out. Then I rediscovered him again with his Valis books. My favorite PKD novel is Confessions of a Crap Artist. I wrote about rereading it not long ago at my blog.  

http://auxiliarymemory.com/2013/01/08/confessions-of-a-crap-artist-by-philip-k-dick/

 



Edited by jwharris28 2015-05-27 7:57 PM

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