/lit/ - Literature

>>12809886
>I don't want to read scanner or sheep
>without even any explanation as to why
Well, then - feel free to GFY.

A maze of death
Time out of joint if you want old style PKD
I've read the flow my tears long time ago and back then i didn't understand anyting in the book, i consider re-reading it.

>>12809971
both inspired movies I've already seen. I'll read them eventually though.

>>12810260
Scanner is scène for scène the book. Sheep (blade runner) is just a real mess of a film with a confusing book but for different reasons than the film shows
No offense to the fans of that movie but pick a better film to marvel over.

>>12810260
>both inspired movies I've already seen
Holy fuck - Blade Runner was likely made to ensure that Androids never got made into a movie. It is barely even seminal to the movie. None of the major points are in the movie. Not even Mercerism made the cut. There are androids and there is a dude that hunts androids; that is about all that they have in common. They barely even touch on artificial animals in the movie, and they completely ignore the social dynamic of them - and it is even part of the climax of the book.

>>12809886
Go for the transmigration of Timothy Archer or the three estigmatas of Palmer eldtrich

>>12810273
neither are really confusing

>>12810357
I hated how they replaced the frog with a shitty unicorn origami that makes 0 sense in context.
AAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAA

>>12810357
y u mad he doesn't know that he didn't even read the book

>>12810378
I didn't understand what was going on with the empathy boxes at first. Or mercerism. Or why the other guy was such a big deal when he seemed like an obvious fraud.

The film wasn't confusing, you're right. I think I was confused by the fifth element and I thought it was blade runner for a second because they both had flying cars

>>12809886
>im looking for my next dick

>>12809886
Paycheck

>>12810389
yea the movie wasn't confusing really. the book on the other hand i can definitely see how some things could be a little confusing including the empathy box, that could've used more explaining on what it really was or its origin

>>12810383
I don't get mad.

>>12810421
literally impossible

>>12810427

>>12809971
lmfao

>>12810612

>>12809886
Everyone saying Blade Runner and Sheep are different is 100% correct. They are parallel stories on similar themes (although I would say Blade Runner covers less of them).

The Man in the High Castle is by far Dick's most straightforward, coherent and stylistically refined. A great book and it finds lots of ways to still be unmistakably PKD.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is also really great and has a great mix of all of Dick's obsessions. Religion, consumerism, drugs, fractured realities, psychic transcendence, identity, and all the rest. The best way to read it however is as a .txt document you downloaded when you were twelve that you read in Notepad on an old computer that would unexpectedly crash every few hours.

>>12810711
Who calls it sheep, besides op?

>>12810731
I don't know who else does. They probably don't say it, but I wouldn't be too surprised to see it in writing. Thinking about the title, I got too lazy to write it all down and i thought about what specific word would make it clear what book I was talking about. Androids was the only other noun and would definitely not help.

>>12809886
Looks like Dan Harmon lol. Only Dick I've had was Man in the high castle and I liked it, pretty mind bending ending tbdesu

>>12809886
Androids, rest of the VALIS trilogy, Stigmata

>>12809886
Confessions of a Crap Artist is a pretty good straight novel and was also made into a film.

>>12809886
The Penultimate Truth is pretty fucking good.

>>12810741
/lit/ has abbreviated it as androids for years. OP is already a confirmed faggot so I gave him a pass on it.