quispquake
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:04 PM
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Poll question: Favorite book by Philip K. Dick |
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Hi all!
Dick's my FAVORITE author...most of his books have amazing ideas forcing you to explore your ideas of what reality is...
My personal faves are "3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (hence my moniker), and "Valis", but I've enjoyed every one I've ever read by him (and that's a lot...I've read like 20+ of his books). Anyways, on to the poll:
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:07 PM
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1. Clans of the Alphane Moon |
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A very neat concept, with plenty of black comedy throughout.
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:11 PM
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One of my all time fave authors too.
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:39 PM
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Forgot about that (quite honestly, it's been 10 years + since I've read most of his books!).
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:23 PM
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There's a great opera of VALIS out there on CD.
(Disclaimer: I work for the record label that made it)
You can check out sound and order it at www.bridgerecords.com/9007.htm
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:41 PM
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5. I can't believe nobody voted for A Scanner Darkly. |
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Best paranoid amphetamine addicts-of-the-future untrustworthy-narrator novel EVER.
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Thu Dec-18-03 02:51 PM
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6. Supposedly a movie of this is in production... |
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I agree, an amazing book that had me laughing thru it, but in tears at the end...one of the best anti-drug novels ever!
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Thu Dec-18-03 03:08 PM
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7. Terry Gilliam has wanted to make it for a long time |
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man, that would be great.
an UBIK film would be wonderful too.
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Thu Dec-18-03 05:47 PM
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10. vanilla sky is ubik without giving credit |
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I guess it's sort of fair because Ubik was inspired by surrealists like Jarry, and Vanilla Sky was a remake of a Spanish surrealist film. The hall of the frozen heads on TV...that was just how I pictured the people in "half-life" babbling and communicating to people. I about fell out of my chair when I saw it. Although I notice that people who have not read Ubik just tend to say, "Huh" and take the ending at face value, which makes the whole story into a big shaggy dog and ruins the whole film!
It also has much of the feel of the short story, "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon."
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Thu Dec-18-03 05:12 PM
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8. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale |
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aka Total Recall...although it's not a full-length novel.
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Thu Dec-18-03 05:40 PM
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There are many good ones, and many not-so-good ones, but even the not-so-good ones will have a line or a scene that is pure magic.
It would be hard to pick a favorite but The Martian Time-Slip really brings back the feeling of childhood in the late 1950s/ early 60s suburbia in a way that more "realistic" books do not.
All the choices you listed are excellent and way up there on the list.
I have 40 titles (estimated). And I have the complete short stories which were all collected to make it easy for us -- wish someone would do the same for the novels.
100 years in the future when our current literature is mostly forgotten to understand the feeling of the time people will read Dick and, of course, Stephen King who is sort of our modern Dickens with fart jokes.
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Thu Dec-18-03 05:52 PM
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11. "A Maze of Death" Total out-of-the-blue suprise ending |
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And one I'd not like to be part of.
If you know the story, you know what I'm talking about.
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