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don't stick your dick in crazy: The Book

>>19672537
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Just finished reading this. I thought this Dick guy was supposed to be good?

Should I read anything else by him? If they’re as bad as this, I don’t want to bother.

>>8369455
correction, i mean main character, not narrator

I've recently read "Dhalgren" by Delaney, "Demolished Man" by Bester, and "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" by Dick. I'll go ahead and say I don't get any of them. This isn't in the sense that I don't understand the literal events, but rather I don't understand what the underlying point of each book is. I've read through their wikis and in some of the books' cases tried finding college papers or professional theses to explain what I'm missing.

My impression of Dhalgren was that it was intentionally inaccessible to most readers (which irks me since I don't understand the point of being widely published if you don't want people to understand your writing) and that the entire book was equivalent to intellectual masturbation on Delaney's part. I understood from my read through that the events of the books were cyclical and that each cycle was supposed to be subtly changed, but none of this answered what the book meant.

Demolished Man took a great idea (I can see why JMS took this concept and ran with it) and then threw the wonderful curveball of Freudian concepts as being the drive for the characters' actions. The whole reason that Reich wanted to kill D'Courtney was because he was his father?!

Flow My Tears I hold in a little higher regard, but again, I don't understand what the point was for it. I got that Alys had taken the drug that allowed her to create a new universe for short periods of time which had drawn Jason in since apparently she wanted to bone him. After she dies and the universe "flops" back into place over the old one, everything is back to normal.

As far as I can tell, I like science fiction. My favorite book is probably Dune and loved the whole series by Frank Herbert (fuck KJA and Brian Herbert). I'm reading The Sprawl trilogy (a little into Mona Lisa Overdrive) and have enjoyed it greatly, but the above stories I cannot get into.

What am I missing?

Wtf did I just read
It was a realy good book,but the ending sort of ruined it for me.Maybe I just never understood it.

What actually happened to Taverner' when he had that creature thing thrown at him,why did he end up waking up in a shitty motel and no one knowing who he was.
was this all to do with alys taking that drug ?
How does her taking a drug effect every one else view on Taverner ??

Also what was with the ending where buckman starts hugging the black man.Was that just written in to show how he really did have feelings for his sister/lover ?

WHy did they have to state that he was a black man.
Know they where rare race in this book,but why did it have to be a black man,did this symbolize something that I missed ??

>also just wondering how long (hours)did it take you guys to read this book ?

[spoiler]Maybe it's just me but I never see any Phillip K Dick discussed on this board. Which is your favorite novel of his?

Mine's pic related.</spoiler>

Man, Phillip K. Dick came pretty close at the end of this book.

>Dat dream sequence/ gas station scene.

Fuck.