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I just finished this book, /lit/. The rest of this is spoilers, and it'd look stupid if I blacked them off.

The I Ching is a smug, fourth-wall breaking bastard.

What did it mean that Grasshopper was the truth? Was it referencing our reality, or was it a reference to the re-emergence of an American identity, or something else entirely?

I am confus.

>> No.799378
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799378

>>799366
the ending is a wat moment


just accept the god-tier experience and immersion as the reason why you read the book.

>> No.799398

>>799378
I'm with you on that. I pretty much got what I expected from the book, including the WTF ending, knowing Dick.

Favorite part of the book had to be when Juliana went fucking nuts. If there's one thing Dick can write, it's intense mental degeneration.

>> No.799418

>>799398
oh yeah? I think I probably like best....

The sequence in the Japanese mission when the SS comes barging in
and
The whole emphasis on honor

>> No.799432

>>799398
Yeah, mental degeneration is definitely his strong point. The part in Do Androids..., when Sebastian has a nervous breakdown over Pris cutting up the spider, is one of my favorite sections in any book.

>> No.799461

>>799432
I didn't like him, but felt bad man

>> No.799492

>>799418
Man, I ended up liking Tagomi a whole hell of a lot by the time the book was finished.

The scene with the Reich representative and him near the end of the book is one of the few instances I've ever seen in literature of someone being badass in conversation.

Also, shooting two Nazis in cold blood with an authentic (?) Civil War revolver does nothing but improve one's reputation.

>> No.799547

>>799378
where is the mandolin guy from?