/lit/ - Literature

>>8853796

Why does /lit/ shit on every sci-fi / fantasy author except PKD?

What makes PKD so exceptional?

>dude I asked Chinese dominoes to write a book for me LMAO

I know he's simultaneously looked down upon and praised to all fuck here, but for those out there who have read multiple of his stories, which one was your favourite?

I'm not talking about his stories but rather about his technical writing skill such as prose and lexicon.

I find him surprisingly pleasant to read, but I'm still a pleb.

What are your thoughts on his abilities, specially considering he did nothing but get high and write.

Just finished A Scanner Darkly.

Its the second book by PKD I go through (first one being Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep) and decided to read up on who he was and his life in general.


This guys was nuts, he lived a life of poverty and drug abuse, no one gave him a chance and had to stay under payed by the publishers until his very death.

Then I came across his infamous "we are living in the matrix and aliens contact me through my subconscious" interview. Weather or not he was high, he certainly held some out there opinion about reality.


Are there any other authors like this out there worth reading? For some reason his shitty life makes me appreciate his work even more.

What are your thoughts on PKD /lit/?

Not sure if this is blashphemy, Phlip was a drug addict. A cheater, a liar. All in all a sad being.
But hell yeah, some of the writings was ok.

>>8411583
Even if we took what you say as true

>I think maybe I just want protagonists who just happen to be severely schizophrenic

>anything but a perfectly normal literary preference

Hey /lit/, need your help. When I was a teenager, a friend of mine described a story to me which I believe was a sci-fi work that took place in a dystopian future. From what I remember, he said it was about a man who the government had attempted to completely stifle. I don't remember exactly how, but I think that they put some kind of implant in his ear that caused constant or periodic buzzing or some other form of intolerable noise that made it impossible for him to think. They also may have encumbered him physically. IIRC this was done to force him to conform. I don't recall if this was something that they did to everyone, or just certain citizens, or just him. It may have been a kind of punishment for him showing signs of free thinking or something.

I know that isn't much to go on, but I would really really appreciate your help.

Pic related- I remember my friend was a really big Phillip K. Dick fan, so it could be a work of his.

>"Gubble me more, she said. Gubble gubble gubble me, put your gubbish into me, into my gubbish, you Gubbler. Gubble gubble, I like gubble! Don't stop. Gubble, gubble gubble gubble, gubble!"

>>7457516

Does he have literary merit, or is he a plebeian genre fiction hack?

Who is objectively the best fiction writer of all time, /lit/? And why is it this man?

>>7279581

Hello,
Can anyone link me editable versions of Chapters 4/5?

I was hoping I could edit my first piece in the book before it is finalized. I wrote the "Luger Foucault" sections, and I'd like to just clean up the first one a bit because it kind of blends into the previous chapter I was riffing off that somebody else wrote, as well as making some last minute edits. Thanks.

>>6964965

Jackson was a successful performer who nonetheless felt he was the subject/victim of very real forces greater than himself, and a talent for turning the melancholy into the danceable and vice-versa. His style is highly idiosyncratic yet unarguably accessible; his most effective gestures rendered in near monosyllable. (re: 'Smooth Criminal').

He was raised in, (Jehova's Witness) and maintained into adulthood a very nearly Manichean, almost gnostic outlook toward the world around him. He lived in a town called Paranoia, California.

Where, if anywhere, in his career do you think PKD transitioned from "geeked out on speed writing a novel a week for magazines to keep the lights on" to interesting literature? What are your PKD powerrankings?

More people will read my preaching if I tack 3/4 of a good story in front of it.

Just watched the trailer for the new Minority Report TV show. Looks like dogshit.

Film was pretty good at dealing with a lot of the text's issues despite completely changing the plot which I think Spielberg deserves credit for.

Any thoughts?

>In an essay written two years before dying, Dick described how he learned from his Episcopalian priest that an important scene in Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said – involving its other main character, Police General Felix Buckman, the policeman of the title – was very similar to a scene in Acts of the Apostles,[24] a book of the Christian New Testament.

Why does a Christian have to learn this shit from his priest? doesn't he both to read the Bible?

Zizek is the Slovenian PKD.