/lit/ - Literature

*redeems genre fiction in your path*

>read a bunch of books
>get immersed into the poetry of life itself
>you become the main character in your own book
>the world is not real
At last, I truly see

They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it. For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished.

In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.

In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing.

If there was any "sin," it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect.

What’s your favorite Philip K Dick novel besides a Valis, Ubik, Or The Man in the High Castle?

I like A Scanner Darkly and I recently finished Time Out of Joint which was quite good

Sup bros, I've never read the Dickmeister and I'm looking for some advice on where to start. I'm aware of a few of his major works but all I currently own is Solar Lottery. Is there a chart out there somewhere? A list of essentials? Any personal lesser known favorites?

I´m closing this thread

So far I've read Ubiq, A Scanner Darkly, and Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Androids and Scanner were solid, but I don't feel that either of them were in the same category of excellence as Ubiq. Is it worth continuing with his works or is Ubiq the peak?

>>12849531
Sawkon Mai - Dick

Can we post other authors obsessed with the color pink, or just Fleming?

>Yeah but, like imagine.. uhh, if what you see, like, isn't what's actually there, dude. I mean, like, what if the way we perceive things, isn't, like the only way we could perceive those, uh, things. Hey man have you ever had a psychotic break? It's fuckin crazy dude. Have you got any meth?

Why did sci-fi take off so much more, artistically, than fantasy did?
Obviously Wolfe is pretty good, but most fantasy is autistic or Tolkien worship.
Sci-fi has way more literary value

Is there a /lit/ guide for PKD? I've read DADOES, Scanner Darkly, FMTPS, Ubik, and a few of his short stories but I'm not sure where to go. I've heard The Man in The High Castle is worth reading, so should I try that?

Who here is a literature postgrad and what are you studying?

I'm writing a thesis on Philip K. Dick

Anyone else frequently consume dick?

Recommend some good novels or shorts stories of hin that were not adapted for screen.

ITT: Authors who are great storytellers but whose prose is shit

Pic related, I love reading Dick because his imagination and the worlds he comes up with are super imaginative and ahead of their time but he writes like an author of hardboiled detective stories from the 40s

Anyone else here a PKD fan? I've read a few of his books and he's become one of my favorites very fast. Here's my rankings for what I've read so far. Feel free to share yours.

Martian Time Slip > A Scanner Darkly > Ubik > The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch > Now Wait for Last Year > Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? > The Man in the High Castle > VALIS

>>8094661
The Dick.

>>8054748
>muh paranoia

Can someone help me find critics analysis of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I have to write a paper that includes four pieces of criticism be it positive or negative and I can't find any decent ones.

>I like sci-fi, but I detest good prose and I want the dialogue to be as cheesy as possible. I mean jeez! is that too much to ask?
>You search is over, my man.

I'm doing a thesis on the topics above - anyone have any suggested critical reading?

I've managed to get my hands a tonne of articles but the longer academic texts are running for 50€+ on Amazon so I've just been torrenting PDFs or ePubs of what I can find - my college library is pretty light on Dick. Also to poorfag it up, if anyone has access to a PDF of Kim Stanley Robinson or Umberto Rossi's monographs on him that would be great.