/lit/ - Literature

Continuing from the previous thread, I'm going so say again that PKD wasn't a great or even a particularly good writer. Out of the whopping 44 novels he wrote, maybe 3 are o.k. (passable), and only 1 is actually good (Scanner Darkly). His 50s benzedribe-fueled shlock he cranked out for volume is genuinely unreadable, and you only need to read Three Stigmata to experience the best of his 60s output. Almost every book of his is the same rambling WHOA DUDE REALITY BUT TOO MUCH, it gets old super fast if you aren't a drug addict with burnt brains yourself, and his subpar prose doesn't help at all.

Only after his 70s psychotic episode (a result of decades of continuous amphetamine abuse) did he become a markedly different and better writer, deserving of his cult status. The lumpen maladroit prose of something like The Man in High Castle or DADoES is a different world from the supple doom-shaded vernacular of Scanner Darkly.