[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 181 KB, 648x1000, 71J0NtPa5bL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19478531 No.19478531 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished pic related and I absolutely loved it, interesting plot twist toward the end as well. It was my second PDK book after Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and I gotta say that it's as good, if not better, than it. What other stuff from PKD would you recommend? Besides the two aforementioned books, I also have on my shelf Valis and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and I'm planning to buy Ubik soon.
Another thing: is the scientific part in the book about the severance of the membrane wall (or whatever it is called) between the two hemispheres and its neuro-psychological consequences true? Because I've never heard of such a phenomenon before

>> No.19478534

>>19478531
>my second PDK book
my second PKD book*

>> No.19478617

>>19478531
I wish I could read Valis for the first time again. It's such a wild ride. As for your question, I never read PKD for "science" since he's more of an "ideas author" (same with his prose, functional but never amazing) but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

>> No.19478694

>>19478617
>I never read PKD for "science" since he's more of an "ideas author"
I don't either, I was just curious after I read that part whether the described condition was pure speculation or grounded on real scientific research

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
Thanks, so it turns out that such a condition does actually exist