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Not ALL, but he does have a solid maybe dozen books or so that are all on a pretty equal plane of quality. Just look up "top PKD novels" and you can get a good sense of the ones that aren't trash.

Ignore the people saying VALIS. That's the final boss of PKD after you've knocked out his intelligible stuff.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 11:52:48 No.7298243 Report Delete

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>>7296412
>Is all of Dick's stuff this godlike?
No. The stuff on a similar level:

Ubik (maybe)
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (maybe)
The Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
VALIS (after you've read the others)

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:04:48 No.7299053 Report Delete

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I liked Dr Bloodmoney. Although i thought the ending kinda sucked. Hoppy shoulda killed them all !

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:10:27 No.7299067 Report Delete

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>>7296412
Couldn't stand DADoES

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 17:37:06 No.7299410 Report Delete

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Ubik is my favorite PKD novel. It's a bit slow in the first pages but REALLY picks up in the second half.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:13:07 No.7299557 Report Delete

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>>7296611
my favorite personally but I still haven't read VALIS or The Man in The High Castle.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:34:31 No.7299635 Report Delete

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>>7296412
The Man in The High Castle is my personal favourite

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:40:50 No.7299659 Report Delete

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I tried reading The Simulacrum and it was bad. kinda reminded me of pynchon tho

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:58:42 No.7300571 Report Delete

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Try Clans of the Alphane Moon.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:04:25 No.7300603 Report Delete

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>>7296412

Read

The Man in the High Castle
Ubik
A Scanner Darkly
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
The Philip K Dick Reader (has all the good short stories)
Valis

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:21:31 No.7300673 Report Delete

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Reality is at a very deep level a set of interrelated and self-referential symbols. We interpret these symbols and therefore explore reality linked to a set of codes, not all of them are conscious. Some codes have a stronger claim than other. We interpret gravity according to a set of formal codes that clearly and reliably predict its behaviour. Many other codes are less reliable such as those connected to our day to day lives. Changing those codes makes us see things in a different way because we bring new symbols in contact with us. The semiotic theory of magic states that a person is able to effect communication in their universe by changing the symbols they interact with. The magickian seeks either a psychological change within themselves or an environmental change by changing their cultural coded symbols. As Philip K. Dick reminds us, “the linking and unlinking of objects is actually a language”.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:28:55 No.7301063 Report Delete

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>>7296412
Just look up the three Library of America volumes, those collect his best SF novels.

Vol 1 - Four Novels of the 1960s:
The Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik

Vol 2 - Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s:
Martian Time-Slip
Dr. Bloodmoney
Now Wait for Last Year
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly

Vol 3 - VALIS and Later Novels:
A Maze of Death
VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 11:11:55 No.7302275 Report Delete

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>>7299053
Dr bloodmoney had an interesting take on autism but god damn did the NTR in that piss me off

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 12:25:16 No.7302481 Report Delete

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>tfw you don't understand valis.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:10:20 No.7303817 Report Delete

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>>7301063
>Anthologies

Back! Back to from whence you came!

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:14:25 No.7303828 Report Delete

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>>7303817
Have you ever read any LOA volumes? Usually 4-5 novels per volume but they're on thin acid free paper, so they're more portable than many anthologies and they keep well too.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:25:02 No.7303857 Report Delete

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Any of you VALIS fans read Radio Free Albemuth? I read both ten years ago and I'm about to read them again after I finish The Devil's Chessboard.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:34:45 No.7303898 Report Delete

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>>7303828
No. I buy my books individually and read them the way nature intended like a good little Christian boy.

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