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PKD's Go Set a Watchman, his Pale King, his Original of Laura - take your pick, or pick 'em all. His last novel, an unfinished, incomplete and etcetera rework of a novella from the 1960s. For some reason, a coherency eluded him -- it was as if he was translating another reality by throwing cricket bones and consulting a mistranslated I Ching and filtering it all through dreams and drugs. But, God bless him, it often works! To my satisfaction, at least. Your mileage, she will vary - sometimes it
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Yeah it is a mess with two books being jammed together but I like the theme of the one book and the weirdness of the other.
"Acrid smoke billowed about him, stinging his nostrils." This line is the one said to begin the craziness that is Lies, Inc. But not its beginning. PKD's 19th novel started as a shorter work, The Unteleported Man. However, it has been published in many forms—some after Dick's death. Joining your Dickheads this time around is Writer/professor/provocateur D. Harlan Wilson lend ...more
"Acrid smoke billowed about him, stinging his nostrils." This line is the one said to begin the craziness that is Lies, Inc. But not its beginning. PKD's 19th novel started as a shorter work, The Unteleported Man. However, it has been published in many forms—some after Dick's death. Joining your Dickheads this time around is Writer/professor/provocateur D. Harlan Wilson lend ...more
good, but I definitely prefer the original novella this was based on, Unteleported Man
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A very strange book- apparently reconstituted long after Dick's death from the novella The Unteleported Man (a typical early-60s PKD piece involving a cosmic conspiracy, a nebbishy anti-hero, and various layers of illusion), and Dick's own later attempts at expanding it into something larger.
Supposedly this is the version with all the fragments in the correct order, but it still seems as if at least a chapter or two is completely missing, and the end section seems bizarrely grafted on after a m ...more
Supposedly this is the version with all the fragments in the correct order, but it still seems as if at least a chapter or two is completely missing, and the end section seems bizarrely grafted on after a m ...more
I don't know, I was kind of disappointed at this book. Maybe it was its writing/editing/publishing history but in the end it feels rather incomplete and somewhat... frustrating to get through?
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Maria
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Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann
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Aug 23, 2010
Acacia
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Seán Higgins
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