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jwharris28
Posted 2015-05-28 12:14 PM (#10644 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Dustydigger, I don't think everyone will like PKD. Time Magazine liked Ubik enough to add it to its Best Books of All Time. I didn't. But I know many people who love Ubik. I think everyone finds a different PKD book to love. He wrote many strangely different books. A Scanner Darkly is both brilliant and depressing. It's about how drugs destroy people, and is based on his real life experience with drug users, many of which died. My absolute favorite PKD novel is Confessions of a Crap Artist. It's not even science fiction, but a science fan is the main character. It's a round robin between several characters' POVs. Dick shows us reality from different perspectives, and none of them are reliable. It's a Rashomon like story.

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