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1464005 No.1464005 [Reply] [Original]

About to read this, what should I expect? How does it compare to the rest of his work? It's my first Dick book.

>> No.1464010

>It's my first Dick
just enjoy it

>> No.1464011

I am also interested, as I have ordered a copy.

>> No.1464012
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1464012

If it's your first Dick book, why do you need to know how it compares to his other work?

>> No.1464013

There's a bit in there where Dick basically describes why people like his books. And it's okay.

>> No.1464014

He wrote this (probably on speed) using the I-Ching to guide his decisions. The I-Ching is pretty prominent in it. Dick likes that sort of stuff, he uses The Tibetan Book of the Dead a lot as well.

You've chosen one of his best anyway, I really enjoyed it. It's up there with Ubik, Valis, Do Androids Dream, and A Scanner Darkly. I think the alternate history is done really well, and of course it has the whole paranoia thing Dick loves to throw in. It's a great book anyway. I suggest Valis or Ubik once you've finished.

>> No.1464018

The only Dick book I know is Moby-Dick, and it sucks; American literature at its worse.

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1464020

Try this one by Horatio Alger.

>> No.1464046

>>1464014

I second that, I loved Ubik. It's my favorite book by him so far. But I have to admit, I haven't read The Man In The High Castle yet.

>> No.1464067

>>1464018
King Dong Vs Moby Dick.

>> No.1464296

The Man in the High Castle is one of my favorite books of all time. And the ending is like "wtf?!"

>> No.1464643

After that, read 'A Scanner Darkly'. Loved both of them.

>> No.1465611

It's kind of a headfuck, set in an alternative timeline, where the allies lost WW2 and America's occupied by the Japanese in some parts and Germans in other parts.

He used the I-Ching a lot to create the plot when writing the book, and had the characters consulting the I-Ching in the book to give them a foreshadowing of what was going to happen next.

>> No.1465633

I read this, Palmer Eldritch, and Androids this past summer. I'd never read Dick before and wanted - expected - to like him but I can't manage anything other than a mild enthusiasm. His concepts are trippy enough to entertain but he never pulls them out in great enough detail or with a worthy plotline.