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Although many people say this book inspired the film "The Truman Show", Expect far more than that in this book. Ragle Gum is not merely another Truman Burbank. He is contained in a world of illusion not for the purposes of keeping others entertained, he has something dreadfully important to do, something somehow wrapped up with the daily puzzle he solves in the newspaper.
This book is about turning around the perception of the protagonist (Ragle Gum) and that of the reader again and again. Is Rag ...more
This book is about turning around the perception of the protagonist (Ragle Gum) and that of the reader again and again. Is Rag ...more
Time Out of Joint comes from that golden era of Dick output that contained such ‘classics’ as Eye in the Sky, The Man Who Japed and, (my favourite) Solar Lottery. These early works, stripped of the drug abuse elements of the author’s final books and copyrighted from the late 1950s onwards, remind one of more innocent times after the second world war. Tinged with Cold War paranoia - there’s a real touch of the early shorts of Kurt Vonnegut in their structure and use of language and domestic situa
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Dick comes out in real force to explore his favorite topics of shifting realities, dystopian futures and loss of perception. A rather early, but fascinating novel.
my favorite PKD book
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Rob
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Dec 03, 2012
Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann
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it was amazing
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fiktion,
nordamerika,
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63-top-books,
ab-do,
thriller,
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