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The book is pretty ...out there. It’s certainly not what I was expecting but it was interesting.


Ha! "Out there" is just par for the course with PKD....

Read "A Scanner Darkly", if you haven't already. That's one of the supreme weird tales.


Or "Martian timeslip". In fact "blade runner" is a pretty poor adaptation of the book (but a great film, imo). I'm not sure most of pkd would benefit too much from a "direct" film adaptation...

I loved the man in the high castle for many of the changes and the overall style - but it seems the writers got a bit lost trying to round off the open ended story and fill in some blanks. Small wonder, considering the book.


Most of PKD's stuff has a similar level of weirdness: paranoiac uncertainty in reality. They are fantastic at that.

VALIS is on another level: PKD had a mental breakdown, thought a interstellar intelligent pink light told hime about his son's hernia, and wrote a book about the other things the light told him.




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