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Philip K Dick thread Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:15:34 2018 No.10834315 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:22:33 2018 No.10834335 >>10834315 >Dick kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:25:51 2018 No.10834349 File: 810 KB, 780x1203, 1517257506639.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10834315

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:28:25 2018 No.10834362 >>10834349 I heard people saying the man in the high castle was his best work. Why would you say to avoid it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:28:41 2018 No.10834364 >>10834349 Why avoid the man in the high castle?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:37:24 2018 No.10834395 File: 777 KB, 1682x2279, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dumping because I thought t was pretty neat

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:38:12 2018 No.10834398 >>10834335 lmao! xD

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:40:14 2018 No.10834409 >>10834349 Man in the High Castle is great. This is such a dumb picture.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:44:05 2018 No.10834427 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep started off great (loved the animal empathy and Mercerism) and ended weakly. (The last half of the book was a bit jarring)

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 12 23:50:16 2018 No.10834454 File: 979 KB, 1663x2283, 8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10834436 This is the last one. You can also read https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html I really enjoy his spiritually-esotericky stuff the most

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 01:07:10 2018 No.10834796 What is his best book?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 01:07:37 2018 No.10834799 >>10834315 post this in your containment thread you plebs

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 10:25:31 2018 No.10836355 >>10834315 Dick lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 10:38:08 2018 No.10836401 >>10834796 Valis is probably the best in the alchemical sense of his transmuting the lead of his lived experience into golden art but I really like Ubik, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Radio Free Albemuth and the Divine Invasion.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 10:43:21 2018 No.10836417 HAITI WILL CONQUER

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 11:06:07 2018 No.10836501 File: 31 KB, 680x680, 0290DFB5-C017-4061-8F50-FD46BBDDC173.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10834349 >ubik optional

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 11:07:20 2018 No.10836505 >>10834427 As much as I love Blade Runner, I really regret Mercer not being in the film

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:28:03 2018 No.10836800 >>10834796 The Valis trilogy is honestly his best work, didn't enjoy his other novels as much.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 14:26:43 2018 No.10837250 flow my tears is more accessible for audiences that are accustomed to mainstream sci fi and not his awful stream of consciousness.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 17:53:49 2018 No.10838155 flow my tears was pretty shit desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 18:00:44 2018 No.10838186 >>10836800 Check out The Exegesis of Philip K Dick, it's basically (as far as I'm in) the making of/behind the scenes of the VALIS trilogy. Like the LotR books are to the movies. >Get the hardcover >remove dust jacket >well played

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 20:31:24 2018 No.10838931 >>10834349 this is a really really bad list

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 20:38:30 2018 No.10838958 File: 131 KB, 590x860, 48F60C84-609B-411F-AF60-D2BE872C721C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just finished reading ubik. The fuck is that ending, lads

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 21:36:59 2018 No.10839161 >>10834349 The optional ones are the good ones dude. His metaphysical rambling was just weird. There's nothing but the physical universe.