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a friend of mine suggested an early PKD novel to me and it turns out it's one of the funniest novels I've ever read, it's practically like a bleaker Futurama...

Reading A Scanner, Darkly by Philip K. Dick.

I hate that I relate to this book so much, but it also makes it fascinating. The reason I hate relating to it is that it's full of bottom feeding drug...

Well as far as a lot of literary types are concerned, the weirder and more symbolic a book, the better. I don't fall for that trick, I like to understand what I've read. SH5 takes the most work to...

Slaughterhouse 5 is by far the most strangely written KV novel. Only Breakfast of Champions really gives it a run for its money in terms of out and out weird. For more normal KV books which are...

I am about half-way through Tolkien's Children of Hurin. It is rather anticlimactic since I've read at least two other versions of the story in the past but the book I have at least has really nice...

I did not know about those Dick omnibus editions...I've just added the first two into my Amazon cart. Thanks for that tip! The third volume I'll pass on since I own nice tpb's of most of the books in...

I've read a dozen or more of his books and almost all of them were great. My generic pick for his best is still Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (which became Blade Runner in the movies). It's...

I just spent all winter reading/re-reading about 7000 pages of King (UtD, all DT books, It, The Stand, Blaze and Buick 8, I think) so I am now enjoying a break with The Hobbit. I got that nice...

I loved The Gods Themselves, definitely one of the best Asimov novels. While I was reading From a Buick 8 I got a lot of TGT vibes, it would surprise me greatly if King isn't a fan of that book.