Mohammed ’s Comments (group member since May 09, 2009)

Mohammed ’s comments from the Philip K Dick group.

Welcome Melanie to the fan group.

Look for his 60s novels,they are great.

Hope you have fun discovering PKD.

Haha Zap Gun sounds a real fun :)

I wouldnt really know i have read mostly his 60s,70s books.

I think his early short stories are quality works.

I assumed he would be less sure of his ability early in his career and i'm not saying all his early books are weak.

Game Players of Titan sound real good,its in the library i really wonder if i should get it from there or buy it. I usually feel like buying my big fav authors.

William wrote: "The 'minor books' are sometimes problematic because Dick worked a lot under financial pressure and time constraints. He published a lot of stuff that really should have been left in the cooker a l..."

Saying Alot of stuff wasn't ready might be a bit much since as how popular his so called minor works are. I think they would have had bad reps if they were.

Sure the early ones might be like that but he was such visionary writer that even his decent works are interesting.

Clans of the Alphane Moon i have heard very good things about, it does like a good minor PKD.

Maybe because its old news that the world is messed up.

You can still make a difference in your own country.

No global Government,passive citizens yet.

Heh A Maze of Death made Jeffrey Deaver's Top 10 Computer novels where he hails its as one of his favourite Dick books.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/...

NumberLord wrote: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
The writing could have been better, but the story itself was phenomenal."

Stigmata of Palmer is seen as one of the major.

Its not one of his best ones to me cause characters wise it could have been better. Story,ideas wise it was very good.

Really i dont choose his books by fame or lack of fame. I choose them only by the how the story sound in the synopsis.
For example i got The Man Who Japed in a new paperback at the same time as Dr Bloodmoney just because it sounded good and were a 50s PKD.

He is acquired taste i like very much.

So mind f**k that sounds really good when it comes to PKD :)


Myself i havent read a good minor PKD. The ones i have read are his famous ones. A Maze of Death is the only minor i have read and frankly it was very weak. For Dick it was almost outright bad....

A book that isnt one of his 5-6 major,most rated books that you liked enough to praise as a quality Dick book.

Personally i hope they leave the best PKD books alone. I dont want to see them ruin Flow My Tears in film. Film adaptations of PKD never shows respect to his stories....

Mike wrote: "it's nice to see so many new members to this discussion group, but Philip K Dick has such a loyal following of readers, we should be 269,000 members by now, eager and pro-active to get the best PKD..."

I know many more PKD fans, they are just not members of goodreads groups even though i have them as friends in goodreads and know them in sffchronicles site.

I hope the members who are active can get get book disc going. Im a member of other groups who have less members but who are more active talking about books,everything.

Heh welcome guys it will be interesting to see what you will think of PKD books.

Do me a favor and forget about his hollywood movies when you read him.

Erich:

I felt the same wierd creepy feeling about Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Time travel eh ? I like his use of the time travel.

I havent read his mainstream books. I think his strength is writing about mundane,human issues in a SF world.

Having many of his SF books left i have no plan to read his mainstream books anytime soon except Confessions who sound very interesting.

Hi jonesy welcome.

I too enjoy his short stories. Second Variety,Minority Report are the favourites so far.

Ubik wrote: "Man In The High Castle is nothing like Now Wait For LAst Year at all. Its an alternate history novel and a character study of sorts. Its very highly acclaimed, but I couldnt get through it either t..."

I know all about The Man in The High Castle,the alternate history etc I meant i hope its one of his best to me like Now Wait For Last Year.

So far its the best to me. Unlike his other quality books he hit it right with every element of the book. Great story,world,characters,ideas.

My last PKD i finished a week ago Flow My Tears,the Policeman Said. It had great characters,good story but not the usual strong level ideas,emotion put in the book.

I hope The Man in the High Castle my next book is like Now Wait For Last Year.