Dude reincarnation LOL

>>25209311
Very phallic cover

It's a Top 5 science fiction book in my opinion.

>>25209311
He was the one in cryonic suspension the whole time and the kid from the beginning was stealing his energy. Masterful bait-and-switch with the reality bending powers, this is what modern writers attempt to do with twist endings and fail to have a payoff as clever as this.>>25209343 is correct.
Ironically a piece of art that a tv/movie adaption would actually really use AI properly as the simulation breaks down and loses power but I don't trust directors with PK Dick anymore. A Scanner Darkly was the last faithful adaption IMO and it was still missing a bunch of scenes and sped up Arctor's descent into a split personality.

>>25209373
Let me run this by you real quick, What if it wasn't Joe Chip OR Runciter in half-life, but rather, the entire plot was from the POV of Runciter's wife Ella?

>>25209311
I'm convinced that the movie Inception was entirely inspired by Ubik, its a defacto Dick movie

>>25209311
>It was all a dream (or was it???), but the world is also a dream and I love drugs.
Basically all PKD is like this. FMTTPS is my favourite. Read Zhuangzi

I liked the part where Joe Chip is trying to climb up the stairs.

>>25209311
Doesn't Dick always put a little bit at the end of all his books where everything is flat out explained?

>>25209311
all the good PKD books are gnostic fantasies about how the material world is ephemeral and it's actually its symbolic content that's essential

>>25209373
>A Scanner Darkly was the last faithful adaption IMO
It was actually pretty damn close. They only trimmed a bit of his confession of sleeping with teenagers and seeing God, which he crammed in to almost all his work post 1970.

The time travel girl is such a weird inclusion. Spend several scenes introducing her and her powers only to have her be basically irrelevant for the entirety of the second half of the book. I know he churned these books out as fast as he could, but I feel he completely forgot about the trippy world bending time powers the moment after he introduced them.
Also the rollcall section at the beginning is complete ass.

>>25210010
Elaborate please, it sounds like an interesting opinion, can you explain it better or give examples?

>>25209311
A fight between god and the devil in the minds of men

>>25211162
>Also the rollcall section at the beginning is complete ass.
I love their outfits.

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>>25209311
It got a video game adaptation.

For me it's Time Out of Joint my favorite simulation and Martian Time-Slip. I also believe Clans of the Alphane Moon to be hilariously accurate in its depiction of the different types of common forms of mental illness.

>>25209319
Deju Vu!

>>25211162
The fact that she lost her powers was proof that the group were in half-life. She was in control of outer reality but once she was in the world of half-life she lost control.
>>25212156
Ever read Dr. Bloodmoney? That one is criminally underrated. I wish I were a humunculus so bad bros.

>>25211162
I agree. Ubik is heavily overrated by normies. It's not very fun to get through either as some of his other novels are.

>>25212156
God I hate Martian Time-Slip and consider myself a big PKD fan. It's interesting how every person seems to have their own faves with little agreement on the best core works. He appeals to people for a variety of reasons.

>>25212841
>book has to be "fun" to be engaging
How many boosters have you taken anon?

>>25212861
It's genre pulp. It has pacing issues that prevent it being as entertaining as it could have been. You are retarded if you think pushing yourself through clunky books makes you an intelligent reader. Maze of Death and even Scanner are much better paced. Scanner was professionally edited, unlike most of his work, and it showed.

>>25212868
You sound vaxxed.

>normies
>vaxxed
Go find another thread to slap each other with your wet noodle arms, newfags. Hell, go literally take some dick.

David Lynch would have been the perfect filmmaker for PKD adaptations.

>>25213335
David lynch makes weird shit up as he goes for it's own sake. He would butcher it.

>>25213339
Into something good.

>>25213351
Id rather have wagyu steak thsn chili with round steak but to each how own

>>25213367
Que?

>>25213439
You're right i should have left out the round steak part to make it a better reality. You are taking something i would consider of great quality and diluting it with lesser ingredients. But it's subjective. Nothing wrong with chili and sometimes it's better on a cold day

>>25213451
Pretty sure i typed analogy but it says reality. Im losing my grasp on analogy.

I read a PKD book I'm going fucking insane ahhhhhhhhhh

>>25215230
HELLLLP MEEER NIGGGERRRRRMANN̈N̈

>>25213452
look at Bob Arctor over here

>>25215248
A scanner darkly was my favorite so far but i have only read all the books made into movies so far.
I own volume 1: the king of the elves but i got distracted. In your opinion what is the next "best" one i could read? Ubik?

>>25215256
UBIK is his best, period. So yeah I'd read that for sure.

>>25215259
I shall

>>25212582
>Bloodmoney?
I have not yet. I've read probably 80% of Dick's novels (and 100% of his short stories). I will eventually get around to it.
>>25215256
Well, Scanner was the first book Dick called a masterpiece. https://philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/A%20SCANNER%20DARKLY.HTM

>>25215594
>I've read probably 80% of Dick's novels
Neat. Have you read any of his "serious" literary fiction books?

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just read this next and ubik will seem like Dr.Seuss.

>>25215670
Which ones exactly?