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> Tries to commit suicide by driving a car with his #1 fan off a cliff.
> Nothing personal kid...

What other authors have tried to kill their fans?

>> No.19024535

what a dick

>> No.19024545

>>19024526
Me, when I tried to kill my only fan, my mom.

>> No.19025900

>>19024526
schitzophrenia's a real bitch

>> No.19025945

>>19024526
GRRM, his fans have been holding their breath for a decade now.

>> No.19026010 [DELETED] 

I'm going to stay up all night and watch PKD videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6lgSbPj8Q

>> No.19026021

have you ever heard him talk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o71r2HF-WE

>> No.19026057

>>19026021
I timestamped ole dicky talking about the authors he read in Berkley.
https://youtu.be/5o71r2HF-WE?t=401

>> No.19026059

>>19024545
Based social outcast.

>> No.19026067

>>19026021
A very interesting historical interview. Things have certainly changed.

>> No.19026073

>>19026067
yeah, I'm 11min in this is really good stuff. I've read a ton of his books but have never seen an interview.

>> No.19026081

>>19026067
>>19026073
i didn't realize how heavily the french influenced him

>> No.19026090

at 12:30 he talking about Nixon and you can tell the schizo seed has already been planted.

>> No.19026122

>>19024526
> Tries to commit suicide by driving a car with his #1 fan off a cliff
I've never heard this. Source?

>> No.19026123

>>19026021
ok, now he is talking about American anti-intellectualism and the etymology of the word 'egg-head'. Apparently the Nazis coined it

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19026384

His prose is awful.

>> No.19026392

>>19024526
>dick
Hahahaha

>> No.19026393

>>19024526
Dick's books are almost as bad as Gibson's.

>> No.19026485

>>19026384
it's pulp soft sci-fi, what do you expect? he had to churn out books like a machine while snorting crank all night and drinking coffee just to pay the bills.

>> No.19026501

>>19026384
incorrect

>> No.19026504

>>19026485
>“Whisk. “It is awful,” she said. “They violate. I ought to know.” Ready for purse snatcher; the various night prowlers, I can certainly handle. Where had this one gone? Slapping his neck, doing a dance. “Let me by,” she said. “Don’t bar my way unless you want a lesson. However, only women.” Holding the blade up she went on opening the door. Joe sat on the floor, hands pressed to the side of his throat. Sunburn posture. “Good-bye,” she said, and shut the door behind her. The warm carpeted corridor.”

I mean it’s barely comprehensible a lot of the time. I just read this paragraph a few moments and didn’t understand what even happened until a page or so later.

>> No.19026510

>>19026384
This.

>>19026501
False.

>> No.19026530

>>19026504
Yup. It's the exact same kind of trash that William Gibson wrote in Neuromancer because he literally was such a poor writer he couldn't do any better. Dick is just an awful writer, but tried to make his inability to write prose a stylistic choice and never got any better at writing.

>> No.19026723

>>19026530
Nah Gibson was far better

>> No.19026744

>>19026723
Atleast he tried, unlike Dick.

>> No.19026750

>>19024526
My schizo idol.

>> No.19026755

>>19026384
no shit, but his ideas are good.

>> No.19026770

>>19024526
he was also trying to convince the FBI that Stanislaw Lem was a Soviet agent trying to destroy US science fiction

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>>19026021
He sounds like E. Emmett Walsh

>> No.19026782

top 3 dick?
1. Ubik
2. Flow my tears, the policeman said
3. Do androids dream of electric sheep?

>> No.19027052

I fucking love dick so much, bros.

>> No.19027119

>>19026021
>>19026067
if you want to hear more this interview's 2 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqHJYz8NXo

>> No.19027130

>>19026782
1. A Scanner Darkly
2. Flow my Tears the Policeman Said
3. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich

androids is a classic of course. it's been years since i've re-read them sadly

>> No.19027133

>>19026530
Gibson was kino noir, retard

>> No.19027169

>>19027133
His ability to write coherent prose is trash.

>> No.19027303

>>19026782
It's been years since I read lots of PKD. At the time I liked Ubik best, but when I re-read it last year it felt a bit thin. So I'll pick these but I'm not sure if I'd still feel the same about them now.

1) A Scanner Darkly
2) The Game-Players of Titan
3) Martian Time-Slip