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Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:57 am
by that damned fly_Archive
i just read "do androids dream of electric sheep" and "the man in the high castle." excellent books. excellent points made within. now...what do you think of this man?
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:03 pm
by Angriest_Dragon_Archive
He's one of my favorite authors of all time.
I know we've talked about him on here but I'm pretty sure he has yet to get NOT CRAPPED.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:30 pm
by placeholder_Archive
Angriest_Dragon wrote:He's one of my favorite authors of all time.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:45 pm
by the Classical_Archive
I've just been rereading Valis and Ubikfor the first time since I hwas sixteen or so...still classic
not crap PKD!
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:04 pm
by Degradation_Archive
I like the stuff I've read and watched......Not crap
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:06 pm
by Rotten Tanx_Archive
Not Crap.
I've read and loved at least 10 of his novels, plus dozens of short stories.
Tried to read The Man in The High Castle 2 or 3 times and got bored each time. I should probably try again because I'm sure it gets better it just starts really slow and I don't read very fast.
The couple of his later books I tried to read, I ended up not finishing them. Maybe it was because I was young at the time but they seemed like long-winded nonsense.
Total Recall was decent. Minority Report was decent. Blade Runner was a piece of shit.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:43 pm
by Angriest_Dragon_Archive
Rotten Tanx wrote:Blade Runner was a piece of shit.
I used to think this myself until I sat down and watched the movie not as an adaptation of a great book but as a movie.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:02 pm
by Chromodynamic_Archive
I've only read a collection of short stories and the Charlie Kaufman treatment of A Scanner Darkly, but I enjoyed both immensely; not crap.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:15 pm
by robert thefamilyghost_Archive
one of my favorite writers...i've read a good bit of his books (though a miniscule fraction of all that's out there...) A Scanner Darkly is probably my favorite...i urge anyone who likes or has an interest in PKD and hasn't read that one yet to hurry up and read it before your impression of it would be ruined by this butchering of a movie that's going to be coming out in half a year or whatever...
Author: Philip K. Dick
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:05 pm
by tmidgett_Archive
Chromodynamic wrote:I've only read a collection of short stories and the Charlie Kaufman treatment of A Scanner Darkly, but I enjoyed both immensely; not crap.
?!?!?!?!
charlie kaufman wrote a treatment of _a scanner darkly_?
wow. i hope that gets made.
i think it's dick's best novel. certainly it is my favorite.
i like the ones i have read that take place on earth. as i recall, the ones that take place in space, i didn't like so much.
not crap, for the ones i like