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blik

Anybody give this a read? Or any other books by Philip K. Dick?
I saw the movie a while ago but I don't remember everything and I just got the book for Christmas. I am a few chapters in and I really like it.

 

-e4

It's a book?? shit i wanna read it now.
Im gonna go down to the library in the next few days and get soom books.
Tell us how the book is
peace

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Zeusman

yea. A Scanner Darkly was published in 1977. i read it...... about ..... 3 years ago or so and it was definitely an interesting piece of work. he has alot of novels out. he's been writing since the 1950s from what i hear. I hear the book Valis is even more fuucked up and harder to read.

i havent seen the movie and I'm hesitant to. it's got two things against it: Keanu Reeves being one and the style as well. I really have trouble watching those movies with the cartoon layover it.

-e4

I'll have to hire that out.
I is it a big book, i prefer bigger books to smaller. Well longer i mean.
Whats it about some drug thats going around and messing people up?
peace

blik

I am on about page 100 of the book now. It is a real good read. Sometimes I have to go and re-read a paragraph just because of how the author writes. But I believe he did this on purpose because all of the characters in the book have "cloudy" minds.

 

blik

Well I finished the book on New Years Eve. I couldn't put it down once I got to about page 150. The story is so complex and it really makes you think. I finished it and then a few hours later I drank a few beers and smoked a small bowl and everything in the book clicked for me. I just couldn't stop crying from it.. The story is actually a love story and I really feel for Bob in the end.. I was never touched so strongly by a book.

23skidoo

yeah, i liked a scanner darkly.
valis is my favourite of his, very thought provoking and esoteric. could really see the mental breakdown of the narrator. also read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which was also an entertaining read.
once i finish the william gibson's sprawl trilogy, i will be reading ubik. quite like his stuff and will try to read more.

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Kurremkarmerruk

I'm currently reading The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Philosophical and Literary Writings, and I must say it really does a good job of illustrating to the reader the author, through various letters and essays by he. Cool guy, a little pretentious, a huge influence for Richard Linklater, who directed A Scanner Darkly among other gems.. I was reading where Phillip K. Dick said he could even stand to look at The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch because of the pure evil he was describing, something along those lines.. He didn't do as much acid as he'd like people to believe, can anybody find Roogs, his first short story ever, typed out online?

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Colonelcorn

I hate to revive an old thread, but its PKD.

My favorite books of his are Ubik and Flow My tears the policeman said.

And for a little info on Philip K dick himself. He was an early scifi writer who lived in poverty all of his life, and died of complications resulting from a stroke in 1982. As mentioned before, he never found any fame in life, but since his death many of his novels have been turned into movies. Most notably Bladerunner(based on "do androids dream of electric sheep") and A Scanner Darkly (based on the novel of the same name). His fame never came till after his death.

Thats a basic overview, he also went to university of california, berkely, but dropped out before going to class because he didnt want to participate in the ROTC program.

Needless to say, he is my favorite author. And felt I should add some information to this post.

And in response to the acid comment above. You are right, he was addicted to amphetamines much of his life as shown in his work. Amphetamines destroyed him but defined his work as well. Much of his "religious" incorporations stem from his amphetamine use.