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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02/01/2006 : 17:38:19
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I seem to recall there are a few people here who are big fans of Mr. K. Dick, so I thought I'd ask the following.
A while ago I read 'The Man in the High Castle' and enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm quite into that sort of thing. You know, a kind of reality based idea, that's not awfully futuristic; Wells/Verne-like, etc- I don't know if Dick strays into that sort of outright fantasy territory, which is why I ask; what of Philip K. Dick should I read next?
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 02/02/2006 : 04:45:24
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a good un about a celebrity who loses his identity in a police state, that and A Scanner Darkly are good further introductions to him. Iīm reading VALIS at the moment and it is really out there.
p.s.: the earlier on in Dicksī career, the more youīll find the outright fantasy flying-car stuff. As he progressed he talked more of police states and the group-mind thinking of conformers and corporations, but from ī74 he claimed to be channelling a higher intelligence who warned him his son was in danger of dying from a hernia undiscovered by doctors and so his books of last eight years of his life took on a much more cosmic spin.
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
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Posted - 02/02/2006 : 04:54:21
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 03:42:47
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I like the sound of Flow My Tears... I'll pick that one up next week. What's A Scanner Darkly about?
Thanks guys.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2006 : 03:37:15
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Itīs about an undercover drug agent who takes too much drugs and ends up narcing on himself. Richard Linklater is making a film of it, a mix of a graphic novel and live-action, with Keanu Reeves and Woody Harrelson.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 02/16/2006 : 02:54:38
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Hereīs a paper I posted by him in summer : http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13278&SearchTerms=,philip,k,dick
yesterday I got Lies, Inc. So far itīs pretty good, about a guy investigating a supposed paradise planet from which nobody ever returns when he finds all the news footage of people living in idyll there was faked.
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