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What are your favorite works by this dude

>> No.19383032

>>19382999
Flow my tears, the policeman said
UBIK
Do androids dream of electric sheep?

>> No.19383070
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19383070

>>19382999
His true paranoiac masterpieces are his later short stories, get the collections.

Doctor Bloodmoney is an underappreciated post apocalyptic masterpiece.

The three stigmata... has his eeriest future predictions, it pretty accurately describes mmorpgs and people making money creating 3d assets for them. Its like he looked into the future through a smudged looking glass.

He was convinced he was a precog, and I am not entirely unconvinced he was not.

>> No.19383151

>>19383070
based

>> No.19383183

always heard about k dick. every now or then I see some stuff he wrote being discussed on movies or plays, and I liked scanner darkly very much
so I as the first book to read, I took "do androids..." early this week and finished it about 3 days ago, despite wanting to read flow my tears more than anything

damn bros, I don't know if I liked it :( it seemed rush and... I don't know... superficial. I knew it wouldn't be so philosophical, but still... I give it like 2/5

this is one of his worst ones right :l I was looking forward to read flow my tears or ubik, now I don't know

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>>19383183
Its a weird book, you Probably got filtered a bit though. With Dick it's generally preferable to start with his short stories. Read like the 20-30 ones considered best then if you like them go to books like flow my tears, a scanner darkly, the three stigmata of palmer eldridge, Dr Bloodmoney... If the short stories do nothing for you try valis.

>> No.19383240

>>19383211
nice, thanks anon!

>> No.19383646

>>19382999
I love A Scanner Darkly, harrowing and funny, brilliant use of the medium to translate confusion and paranoia from the character to the reader.
His short stories rock. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is a great one. One I appreciate a lot is called the Piper in the Woods. Something very funny about it, in its strange simplicity.
I haven't read Flow My Tears, though.

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19383692

>>19382999
I've never personally related to any supposed novel as much as I did to Valis. Luminescent three-letter agency Congoids HATE him, find out why.

>> No.19383700

Martian Time Slip is underrated.

>> No.19383718

>>19383070
>His true paranoiac masterpieces are his later short stories, get the collections.
Which are the best titles of collections in particular? I really loved VALIS (as much as you can love something that fucks with your head) and even dipped into Exegesis

>> No.19385264

>>19382999
Had a class in Uni where we read all his short stories and a few novels. Couldn't stand him. Every plot was "God is an alien" "God hates us" or "God is an alien who hates us"

There was that one short story about the guy who evades death by arranging his salary to be some bits of trash, I liked that one.

>> No.19385518

I just read "A Maze Of Death", it was good not great. It's hard to find his books in stores, they must get scooped up like immediately

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19385719

>>19382999
why did he think lem was a spy?
>>19383183
>>19383211
>>19383646
>a scanner darkly
a thousand times this

>> No.19385956

>>19383692
I listening to a 90s audiobook of VALIS and shit is off the rails

>> No.19386087

Are there any good versions of his collected stories?

>> No.19386116

For me, it's We Can Build You.

>> No.19386946

>>19383211
>>19383183
Someone really needs to make a PKD chart/guide

>> No.19387289

I read electric sheep recently and was really unimpressed with his prose. What works have his best use of language?

>> No.19387303

Flow my tears, so far. Wasn't really impressed with Electric Sheep.

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>>19386946
>>19386946

>> No.19387712

He was legit crazy

>> No.19387872

>>19383718
Personally the best collection for me was Beyond Lies the Wub, followed by the Impossible planet 1 & 2, however editions might vary per country
In general, you can't really go wrong with any of the PKDick collections