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Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:24:28 2018 No.11603042 [Reply] [Original]

what does /lit/ think of pkd?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:25:33 2018 No.11603044 Vulgar, and unsurprisingly tolerated on this board.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:33:34 2018 No.11603071 HIS SHIRT IS COVERED IN MAGGOTS

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:35:50 2018 No.11603075 He's the type of author that every once in a while you think it would be interesting to read a book from and then you start reading it and you're like ugh no

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:36:21 2018 No.11603077 dislike him. his juvenile obsession with drugs and identity bespeak a emotionally stunted man with a vacuum where his soul should be. I only read straightedge authors.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:38:32 2018 No.11603087 >>11603077 Cringe and bluepilled.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:40:10 2018 No.11603092 >>11603087 >weedhead detected go smoke your weed, weedhead

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:40:48 2018 No.11603095 >>11603042 Based sci-fi writer. The only sci-fi American writer worth saving from oblivion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:42:17 2018 No.11603101 >>11603042 He tries to write masculine prose, but his constant cynicism makes it unreadable. It comes off as snarky, like a 19 year-old boy who just got his first bite of the red pill.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:43:47 2018 No.11603104 >>11603042 Great novelist. Ahead of his time and maybe somewhat this time too. Fun reads for his esoteric style. If you like weird you'll have fun with his books, if you're an elitist lit bro you'll looks down on him.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 10 23:52:03 2018 No.11603127 For the new wave he ranks above Harlan and below Ballard

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 00:07:24 2018 No.11603164 His best works were when he was crazy.

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Anonymous Sat Aug 11 00:45:50 2018 No.11603313

>>11603042
I love him. I don’t get people’s criticisms of him in this thread that he’s cynical, tries to seem masculine, and is edgy. I find him a very touching and sincere writer who makes me feel less lonely, because he writes about the despair and disorientation of living in the modern era. A prophet, he and others are right that he’s strangely captured the modern zeitgeist, modern reality feels Philip K Dick-esquely.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 00:48:10 2018 No.11603322 >>11603042 I like him!

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 00:48:10 2018 No.11603323 If I didn't like Man in High Castle will I like anything else? I have Dr. Bloodmoney sitting around

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 00:50:56 2018 No.11603336 I read A Scanner Darkly for an American Lit course and fell in love with his work

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 00:55:03 2018 No.11603350 i recommend the audio interview he gave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C7Y8WEIsBU listen to it while high. note: this is a message to myself to listen to it instead of listening to the zelda vaporwave i've got going on.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 01:34:05 2018 No.11603447 >>11603323 haven't read man in high castle think i will hate it love all of his short stories a lot

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 01:37:39 2018 No.11603454 >>11603447 >>11603323 edit: i watched man in the high castle and liked it but felt i would hate the book

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 06:14:49 2018 No.11604285 >>11603101 Wrong writer? This this a thread about Philip K. Dick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 06:49:04 2018 No.11604386 >>11603042 unabashed speed freek. > zoob of endko

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 06:49:30 2018 No.11604389 >>11603323 It is not a particularly important edition to his body of work, secondary at best.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 07:38:29 2018 No.11604536 >>11603044 you mum is vulgar you dumb cunt. >>11603077 >soul >straightedge holy cringe

Anonymous Sat Aug 11 09:31:50 2018 No.11604883
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> girl with small breasts
> corporation with a stupid name pushing a household product
> references to early mystical christianity
> flying cars
> something isn't what it appears to be
> paranoia
> bad dialog
> future suburbs

yeah i think i've read about enough of him. he's way better than most scifi though, dick doesn't just blindly push for technological progress or write mindless action scenes

Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:57:11 2018 No.11605210

>>11603042
His output is downright impressive, but also I think you've gotta take him novel by novel. Some of his books like VALIS are very developed but some of his books you can tell it was just a first draft he decided he didn't want to work on anymore. I think his ideas are better than his actual writing but I've never read anything of his I've outright hated.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 10:59:45 2018 No.11605222 >>11603323 The more interesting, non-Nazi/Jew ideas are better shown in his other works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 11 11:02:24 2018 No.11605231 I'm not /lit/ but he is the only author I read. Every time I try to deviate I'm disappointed.

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