this is neat, i had no idea The Owl in Daylight was basically the premise of TRON, which came out seven months after PKD died http://www.avclub.com/article/read-philip-k-dicks-unfinished-final-novel-might-h-231491
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
huh. never heard that before.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
I have put holds on three P.K. Dick books at the library and plan to read one of them as my next book. Among these three titles, which should I read first:
Flow My Tears, the Policeman SaidA Scanner DarklyValis
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
scanner darkly is my favorite of those three
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Mine too
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
Scanner is the most powerful of these three, but it's depressing
I like Flow My Tears, it's sort of a throwback (from 1974) to his classic style of the 1960s
Valis is theological metafiction, not my favorite of his modes but biographically important
― Brad C., Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
scanner fucked me up, but is prob the best.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Valis def for last, though I like them all, it's just a particular thing that is probably best coming at after you've read a few.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
yeah i think i've said it before on another thread (maybe the one about the film adaptation) but the end of scanner destroyed me
a more astute reader might see what's coming, but i didn't :(
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
Scanner was the first thing by PKD I read, and though nothing else I've read by him has quite measured up to it, it wasn't a bad place to start. I actually think it gave me a lot more patience with his less coherent books than I would have had otherwise.
So I'd say Scanner, then Flow My Tears, then Valis.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Had totally forgotten about this thread (incl. my posts), thanks! On ILE, also worth keeping up with: philip k dick C/D, S+D
― dow, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link