/lit/ - Literature

Explain the obsession with Phillip K Dick
Many of his alledegd best books are just drug addled messes that make no sense and people try to justify it by saying
>It's open to interpretation
When it's just garbage

Where do I start with him if I want to explore his gnostic themes?

>writes a book about what it means to be human where he introduces antropomorphic androids who can pass as humans
>main character is called Deckard
>Deckard is spelled in English exactly the same as Descartes, the surname of a philosopher who introduced the mind-body problem and dualism into philosophy

what did he mean by this?

>Philip K Dick still thought we'd be listening to the radio in the future

Why are sci-fi writers so bad at predicting things?

Hey, any fellow dickheads here?

Not directly related to the thread, but does anyone else experience weird shit happening with Philip K. Dick books on Kindle Paperwhite? They sometimes disappear entirely, then they all reappear as first ones in queue after you restart or charge the device. This happens to all PKD books I have on mine (they're all non-Amazon "backups") and no other book with one exception of a title whose author is 'Platon'.