PKD was a genius.

one of my all-time favorites.

a genius!!

Coo-Koo for coo coo poofs.

And by that, I mean: TOTAL dickpissy.

Started VALIS tonight and am absolutely enthralled. This is pretty much unlike anything I've read by him before (I mean, in how extreme it is I guess). Hopefully will finish it in a couple of days and start "A Scanner Darkly" or "UBIK". Not Crap.

The only Dick books I've ever read are Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man Who Japed. Both are excellent.

I've heard that The Man Who Japed is a lesser-known novel of Dick's. It's really short, and it's about a kind of insanely conservative future where, if you do one thing that might be against the Committee's rigid standards of morality, really bad things will happen to you. It's a great novel.

Great writer. Insanely creative. He had a way of messing around with the perception of existence that we take for granted, and thereby tapping into some of our most irrational, paranoid fears about the world.

Philip K. Dick was so prolific with the great ideas that his material has been ripped off and bastardized innumerable times by Hollywood filmmakers, yet there's still a shit-ton of his work they haven't touched.

NOT CRAP NOT CRAP NOT CRAP

technicallous wrote:Started VALIS tonight and am absolutely enthralled.

Damn do I wish I could read VALIS for the first time again.

I couldn't find this thread for some reason so it ended up in the eBay/Craigslist thread in the Tech Room, but a couple of weeks ago one of Dick's ex-wives was selling the little clay pot mentioned in VALIS and another book on eBay. for 5 grand. I don't know if somebody bought it.