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Hey /lit/ I just want to know your thoughts on pic related

>> No.13375850

>>13375188
Read some other better Philip K. Dick books

>> No.13375922

>>13375850
like?

>> No.13375947

>>13375188
I didn't understand it.

>> No.13375951

>>13375922
The Man in the Poop Tower.

>> No.13375952

>>13375951
u joking rite

>> No.13376341

>>13375188
Serious answer: it's good as far as the characters and conflicts within the story go (the Americana merchant being a particularly good part), but the actual scenario is so utterly absurd it's distracting in every part of the story. Read Turtledove instead

>> No.13377004

>>13375850
Read Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and The THree Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
>>13375188
That is one sexy cover.

>> No.13377017

>>13375188
Philip K. Dicks one good book
He took his time
He contemplated his thoughts
He revised the work
>>13377004
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.philipkdick

>> No.13377024

>>13375188
Meh.

>> No.13377027

Hate this book because it popularized alternate history
>DUDE WHAT IF THE NAZIS HAD WON BECAUSE HITLER GOT ALIEN TECH/DINOSAURS/NUKES/AGVKKGVGVK
Shut the fuck up

>> No.13377049

>>13377027
that's not it at all
and it doesn't pivot on simple technological changes
go read turtledove if that's your thing

>> No.13377070

>>13377027
you've clearly not read the book, maybe watched the series which is completely different and shouldn't be interpreted to even based on the same material, only the same vague historical concept

>> No.13377093

I remember not thinking much of it when I read it.I must have been 15 or so at the time and I'm absolutely certain, having since spoken/listened to people who have read it a lot more closely than I, that I just didn't absorb everything that was happening. I feel like if I were to go back to it now (many, many years later) I'd get a lot more out of it, given that I am - I think - a far better reader than I was back then.

>> No.13377150

>>13376341
Keep in mind that the bulk of information about the capabilities, strength, production levels, etc of the Axis we have now were still largely classified and/or untranslated when Dick was writing it. The war seemed like much more of a near-run thing with the information he had access to at the time.

>> No.13377342

>>13377093
Yeah I'm not much of a reader, I just decided to read a Philip k dick book since a lot of people who's opinion I respect like him. I really enjoyed it even though some of it might have gone over my head

>> No.13377369 [DELETED] 

>>13377004
What's so great about Ubik? I thought it was too similar to Three Stigmata or D'Androids (can't remember which) and couldn't enjoy it short of Joe's advanced aging. Galactic Pot Healer is fun too, overlooked.

>> No.13377385
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13377385

Good Dick, but not his best.

>> No.13377397

>>13375922
A Maze of Death, Ubik, Now Wait for Last Year are all better.

>> No.13377471
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13377471

Phil wrote to the FBI saying secret neonazi organization approached him to put coded messages in this book and then said Thomas Disch's camp concentration book contained these messages. And then in other interviews he praises that book
wtf was his problem?

>> No.13377491

>>13377471
The demiurge traps Phil in a crazy torture box and Phil can't fight his natural instinct to try and do the same to some poor FBI agent.

>> No.13377495

>>13377471
Didn't dick say he was abducted and given all the information but couldn't access all of it as a form of torture?