Philip K. Dick thread

[MrQuint]

this is sarajean's most favorite author. She'll be so excited when I tell her that a thread has been started in his honor.

Where is Lady T anyway? She hipped me to The Man In The High Castle way back in the day.

And believe it or not Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was required reading in a College course I took.

[theBeamisHome]

that's awesome. i wish classes i took would assign great authors like PKD

[MrQuint]

that's awesome. i wish classes i took would assign great authors like PKD

You need a teacher that's a pothead. We read A Clockwork Orange too.

[theBeamisHome]

dammit. and i'm going to this conservative school.. it'll never happen... *sigh* maybe i'll get lucky and get one of those profs that aren't really part of the school.

[Ka-tet]

Im in college right now, i just finished Ubik....And i dont get it

Why did Runciter find a coin with joe chips head on it? Is it runciter thats actually in the half-life state?

Are they both in the half-life state in different places?

I just dont get it, it dosnt make sense to me. Maybe given time to think ill understand, or make up my own theories. I just wonder what the rest of you think.

So without futer ado...Discuss Ubik!

[mae]

Library of America is releasing their third Dick volume on July 30th:

http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/20...volume-to.html

[Brice]

The name of the site is total dick head?

[flaggwalkstheline]

My favorite book by him is Valis, its the one he wrote after he had a nervous breakdown and it shows

[Seymour_Glass]

Valis was awesome. It's tied with Ubik for me.

[wolverine0712]

I've read a little bit of his stuff. I love Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep. I've also read a lot of his short stories, including Total Recall, the Minority Report, and the one that was made into a horrible Nic Cage movie (I can't remember the name of it). They are good reads and normally pretty quick.

[bluelph24]

just finished androids about 20 min ago. i really enjoyed it, much more than i enjoyed scanner a year or so ago. since the existential movement is one of my favorite literary movements, and because i love both the styles of early scifi and hardboiled/noir, this book really jumped out at me. Dick did a great job on this one

[sarajean]

this is sarajean's most favorite author. She'll be so excited when I tell her that a thread has been started in his honor.

Where is Lady T anyway? She hipped me to The Man In The High Castle way back in the day.

And believe it or not Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was required reading in a College course I took.

sarajean would be more excited if his name was spelled correctly in the title (only one "l" in philip). i don't have all of his stuff, but i do have quite a bit. ka mai, you said the ideas in the man in the high castle weren't exactly original, but you have to remember that when it was written, they were. most speculative fiction writers from the 60s on were influenced by pkd in some way. his best works were always his short fiction. the reason that his books don't necessarily translate well into movies is that they were so full of ideas that in order to make a film, most of the story had to be left out.

a good place to start is with his collected stories volume 1: the short happy life of the brown oxford.

[Jean]

sarajean would be more excited if his name was spelled correctly in the title (only one "l" in philip).

Thank you for bringing it to my attention! I had suspected I was seeing double.

[mae]

Beautiful:

[sarajean]

pablo, that's amazing. i love it.

in other news: radio free albemuth is being made into a movie. i'm not sure how well that will be translated into film.

[Ka-tet]

First things first my friends, there will be SPOILERS!

Okay so i read this book some time ago, and really thourougly enjoyed it. But i just dont get it.....then ending left me puzzled and after some serious consideration i cant come up with anything. Can any of you guys shed some light on it for me?

[sarajean]

i'm going to go ahead and merge this with the pre-existing philip k dick thread.

what specifically about the ending was it that confused you?

[Darkmaniscoming]

I was deeply enjoying that book as well, hope this isn't a spoiler but the end pisses me off to this day.......

I have a nice anniversary copy for sale pretty much cover price including shipping to all of north america:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Philip-K-Dick-MAN...d=p3911.c0.m14

I am deeply enjoying The Man In The High Castle.

[Ka-tet]

i'm going to go ahead and merge this with the pre-existing philip k dick thread.

what specifically about the ending was it that confused you?

Thanks for the merge

and everything, i just dont understand what happend, specially with that coin ;p

[Lily-sai]

Thanks to pablo for directing me to this thread! I've only recently started to read his books, now Ubik is in my hands. I'll be back soon - ie. when I've read at least five of Dick's books so I can comment more. So far, so good.

[Kronz]

Thanks to Pablo pointing out the Library of America editions on the other thread I just got the first two in the mail today (one was a first printing, the other a fifth). Very classy treatment for someone like PKD. Almost all the other figures they've published are way over my head. I'm pretty eager to read him again, he's always mesmerized me but it's been hard to find his stuff.

[mae]

Those LOA editions are sexy. And they have very useful notes at the end. Too bad more of Dick wasn't published this way...

[DoctorDodge]

Read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a short while ago, and I really liked it. Obviously, I read it because I'm a huge Blade Runner fan (although it took 3 viewings before I eventually decided that I liked it), but it was very different, storywise, at least. However, both are very similar in tone and spirit at least. Need to read more of his stuff, I think.

[Brice]

I just read We Can Remember It for You Wholesale in an anthology earlier this week. I just love dick.

Spoiler:

That's what she said.


and that is so NOT what I meant.

[Kronz]

Halfway through Three Stigmata which I just started a few hours ago and so far it's probably one of the best he ever wrote (and one of my favorite books of all time more than likely). It's crazy I somehow skipped it when I was reading so many of his books years ago.