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... of a book by the real-life (if that phrase can be used) Dick. Scenes in Radio Free Albemuth will be familiar to readers of A Scanner Darkly , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and probably other Dick works that I haven't yet read. I also recognised a couple of episodes of Dick's life that I ...
... The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, CivilWarLand in bad decline by George Saunders and Far away by Caryl Churchill. Dick's A scanner darkly is really good too.
On my 1010 list is Metro 2033, which has a great premise at least.
Thanks for great reviews! I'm really curious about The ...
... Future):
Atonement - Ian McEwan
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick
The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Thoughts? Suggestions? I always have so much trouble ...
... at Some Point in the Near Future):
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick
The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
Lucky - Alice Sebold
The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
Heat - Bill Bufo ...
#3 "it seems they always pick the less known works!" -- Major exception is A Scanner Darkly which was one of his better known books and a fairly faithful if not all that successful adaptation. The best and most Dickian scenes are the ones focused on everyone but Keanu Reeves. Unfortunately he's ...
57F.) A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
A really great book. A little funny and a lot sad...it really was everything I had been told it was.
Maybe a bit too depressing, at that.
... ehim)
08. Sphere by Crichton (same, like best beach reads ever)
09. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
10. A Scanner Darkly by Dick
I guess I really haven't read enough sci-fi. Or FANTASY:
01. The Lord of the Rings by duh
02. American Gods by Gaiman (does that count?) ...
... without even realizing it. Because it wasn't until college when I read books like The Handmaids Tale, Necromancer, A Scanner Darkly , and A Brave New World. Well I digress, Flowers for Algernon was a wonderful tale. It is about a young man with an incredibly low IQ (70) who is ...
... Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 'Second Variety' (plus a sequel), 'Impostor', 'The Minority Report', 'Paycheck', A Scanner Darkly , 'The Golden Man', and there's a further three in preproduction...
... tried to be evil, but I personally found his character, coldness, and disregard for others, despicable.
- The owners of A Scanner Darkly 's New Path
- The narrator of A Cask of Amontillado
Almost picked Randall Flagg too, eabell - but yes, he is supposed to be the devil, isn't he?
Parad ...
... useful; my review is here .
28. A Scanner Darkly , Philip K Dick - the best Dick I've read, and I've read a few of them. Hilarious.
29. The Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison - reread; thought it ...
... I wasn't really sure what to make of him. There were moments where I thought the novel would slide off into Fight Club/A Scanner Darkly territory and reveal that the double is in fact just that port of Goyaldkin's behavior which he hides from himself.
As for the style, well, it's always ...
... have to get my hands on the novella. I read Beggars of Spain and I thought it was pretty good to begin with.
I read A Scanner Darkly last weekend - loved it. I will be getting Storm Front and Accelerando in the mail some time soon, and I hope to read them this month as well.
... Arthur C Clarke (1972)
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe (1972)
The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin (1974)
A Scanner Darkly , Philip K Dick (1977)
I think both Rendezvous with Rama and Ringworld are unsatisfactory novels, but both have impressive - and memorable - Big Dumb ...
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Last Defenders of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton
Snow Crash ...
I loved A Scanner Darkly . It's one of those rare books, for me, that made me feel rather sad at the end. I felt sorry for PKD and how much he lost. Good book!
Finished Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly . Definitely one of his better ones. Just started The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch. Only two chapters in and I can see why Mulisch insisted any film adaptation cast Stephen Fry as Onno Quist...
Finished Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly . Definitely one of his better ones. Just started The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch. Only two chapters in and I can see why Mulisch insisted any film adaptation cast Stephen Fry as Onno Quist...
... Dull. And strangely old-fashioned - as if it had been written a decade or two earlier than 1974.
Currently reading A Scanner Darkly , Philip K Dick. Looking like one of his better ones.
Gravity's Rainbow
The Crying of Lot 49
A Scanner Darkly
Neuromancer
Cryptonomicon
Imajica
Those are my suggestions for genre newbies.
re: p42 and p15
It is interesting how different perceptions are. I read A Scanner Darkly a few times as teenager, and enjoyed it very much, while I dislike The Deathly Hallows.
I'm Marcia and I'm a big fantasy reader (especially YA), with the occasional foray into sci-fi. I just read A Scanner Darkly for my book club, and can't say I liked it very much. I started Hinterland by James Clemens last year and will hopefully finish it sometime in the next few weeks. Amongst ...
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There are touchstones (LibraryThing Links) with the reviews.
1. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
2. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
3. Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
4. How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative ...
... I've been reading before. This should be fun.
I've just finished reading two books in the last week.
#1 Interface
#2 A scanner darkly
Finished reading A scanner darkly over the weekend. Now I'm reading The left hand of darkness.
Finished Interface earlier this week.
Now I'm starting A Scanner Darkly . I've read some of Philip K. Dick's other works recently, so it should be fun.
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain (audio)
Rating 4/5
99. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Rating 4/5
C6. Dark Tower Treachery #3 by Robin Furth
Rating 4/5
100. Nation by Terry Pratchett (audio)
Rating 5/5
101. Fables Vol. 3: Storybook ...
... stories of Dick's in the past, but this year I hit on two early novels: Solar Lottery and Eye in the Sky, and also A Scanner Darkly because the movie was out.
... for me:
THE GODFATHER--(terrible book, terrific movie)
JAWS (ditto--Benchley is one of the worst authors ever)
A SCANNER DARKLY (no one has done Phil Dick better)
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (bit of a stretch but it factored into one of my faves, "Reds")
FEAR AND LOATHING IN L ...
From bedda's library, I pick A Scanner Darkly byPhilip K. Dick
... in half-life at the moment of death and a bizarre version of the future in 1992.
Ubik is more entertaining than A Scanner Darkly and less depressing. I think it is a well written story and it did maintain my interest very well.
No. 40 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick 239 Pages (15,831 total pages)
A story about drug culture and the destruction of individuals by drug use. Based upon the author's note the story has some autobiographical basis. In the note the author writes about people who went out to play and were ...
... Light : Rudy Rucker
Doomsday Book : Connie Willis
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World : Haruki Murakami
A Scanner Darkly : Philip K Dick
Nine Princes in Amber : Roger Zelazny
Startide Rising : David Brin
29. A Scanner Darkly , Philip K. Dick
I'm not much of a sci-fi reader because I usually get tangled up in theories, technobabble, and gobbledegook. This book has those elements, but I could not put it down. Dick's drug culture of the 70s is hardly fictional--he himself was a big player in the ...
... crummy to be honest).
On the sci-fi front things aren't so hot. The excellent Children of Men deserves a mention. A Scanner Darkly was good though not my cup of tea. I haven't seen Renaissance yet, though it is in my list.
Sunshine tried to be a good movie. I have to ...
... of the time travel theme.
A Scanner Darkly (http://imdb.com/title/tt0405296/)
Stylish rotoscoped adaptation of the A Scanner Darkly .
Renaissance (http://imdb.com/title/tt0386741/)
French-british noir SF. Also rotoscoped.
Sunshine (http://imdb.com/title/tt0448134/)
Heart of Darkn ...
Another non short story/novella Philip K. Dick suggestion: A Scanner Darkly . Without giving too much away, it's about a certain drug's effect on sanity and the perception of reality. It's also one of his best novels, and none of his books are very much longer than two hundred pages or so, so ...
Last week I finished A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. I really liked this book even though it was depressing as bloody hell... I plan on writing a review on it, that way I feel like I am doing more on LT than refreshing the pages and starting topics on various forums...
Anyway, a great novel ...
And now I am going to read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
If you wish to read my short thoughts on Dune Messiah, click on the title and look for Bardsfingertips' review.
Daniel
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (based on a quote from the Bible)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (comes from a children's rhyme)
Sometimes a Great Notion also by Ken Kesey (comes from a Leadbelly song)
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (comes from the Shakespeare play T ...
Children of Men was very good, yes.
A Scanner Darkly I'm kind of conflicted on. I haven't read the book, but as a movie I loved the rambling crazy bits with the junkies. The actual sci-fi elements just didn't seem to work as well for me. I kind of felt like Linklater was out of his depth ...
... long to respond to your question about PKD's religious conversion. I know next to nothing about him and his work. I tried A Scanner Darkly about the time the latest attempt at a movie from this book came out. I think I read ten or twelve pages and could not go further, but then I had the same ...
... is that it's hard to tell who the real man was, buried under the drugs and the mental instability.
I would put both A Scanner Darkly and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch as major novels.
Regards his non-sf stuff - I would also recommend In Milton Lumky Territory: works his ...
... about Robert Silverberg for example.
Ubik is probably my favorite. I like MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE .
Not a fan of A SCANNER DARKLY .It's barely a SF novel, and in that regard I don't think it's as good a drug novel as Drugstore Cowboy or Panic in Needle Park.Granted there's a tone ...
... out of this world, and when he was bad...well, he was writing to support five wives, what do you expect?
My faves:
A SCANNER DARKLY
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP
THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH
UBIK
THE MARTIAN TIMESLIP
VALIS
RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH
GOLDEN MAN ...
I don't see the connection of A Scanner Darkly and the literary value of comics. A Scanner Darkly was a novel that was turned into a rotoscoped movie. No comics involved. Maybe when you were at the store you saw the 'adaptation' of the movie where they took stills from the movie to make a comic? ...
... nothing short of ABYSMAL. Unmitigated shite.
And then I glance at DO ANDROIDS DREAM, UBIK, THREE STIGMATA and SCANNER DARKLY and realize that when the man was on, few writers even up to today can lay a glove on him.
Perhaps it's the same with you and RAH. I dunno...
... 3/4/08)
4) I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (finished 3/18/08)
5) The Ruins by Scott Smith (finished 4/17/08)
6) A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (finished 5/8/08)
7) Wanted by Mark Millar (finished 6/11/08)
8) Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (finished 6/28/08)
Books I own ...
Ian:
You didn't like Ellison's "I Have No Mouth", "Repent Harlequin"? Dick's A SCANNER DARKLY and THREE STIGMATA? Admittedly, both had weaker efforts (I think far more in Dick's case, who wrote too fast and to pay for too many wives), but these guys could throw the inside fastball when ...
... Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
4. 100 Bullets: Split Second Chance, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
5. A Scanner Darkly , by Philip K. Dick
6. Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
7. Batman: Broken City, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
8. Freakonomics, ...
... keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards
hawkes harbour by SE Hinton
and I bought a couple of Philip K Dick's too
a scanner darkly and do androids dream of electric sheep
... but I'd particularly suggest:
The man in the high castle
Ubik
The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Valis
A scanner darkly
Do androids dream of electric sheep ("Bladerunner")
...
And we're not just talking tags here. The Library of Congress Subject Headings also ratted you out, at least as far as A Scanner Darkly . Apparently you're into "Drug Abuse > Fiction."
I think there's a legitimate argument to be made about "exposure" being the better part of privacy. As I' ...
... of Electric Sheep? - 1982 film: Blade Runner
8. Confessions of a Crap Artist - 1992 film: Confessions d'un Barjo
9. A Scanner Darkly - 2006 film
Finished A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, and working on The Elder Gods by David and Leigh Eddings and also In Your Dreams by Tom Holt.
... Timothy Archer all being on the Nebula shortlist. Flow My Tears.. was also on the Hugo shortlist and won the Campbell. A Scanner Darkly was on the Campbell shortlist and won the BSFA. The Divine Invasion was on the BSFA shortlist. His novelette Faith of Our Fathers was also nominated for ...
26. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
27. The Paradise Snare by A.C. Crispin
... discussion is still going (i noticed there were two separate strings on the same topic), but now that the film version of A Scanner Darkly is out on DVD perhaps more people have had a chance to see it.
Of course I do recommend reading the book first (as with all novels that are turned into ...
... Brave New World
M. Ageyev; Novel with Cocaine
Will Self; almost his whole oeuvre
Philip K. Dick; A Scanner Darkly among many others
Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary
Castaneda was a bit of a fraud so not sure if we want to include him?
Denis Johnson; Jesus's S ...
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Sand Daughter - Sarah Bryant
This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
The Exiled - Posie Graeme-Evans
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Really looking forward to reading these, and I have a package coming from Amazon shortly containing more finds from their recent ...
... by Robert Shea
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Tale of Two Cities by Charle ...
... was the best. It's just the one that happened to have a good film adaptation. (Though I personally think the movie of A Scanner Darkly was pretty good.)
... really enjoy the way she can show so clearly the misunderstandings between generations and cultures. Last night I started A Scanner Darkly , which I bought before I knew about the movie, but still hadn't read. I'm trying a new resolution of working from the bottom of my TBR pile to to the top ( ...
...
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Tin Drum by Guenter Grass
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick
... hysics
Brian Augustyn: Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Dave Barry: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly (replacing older copy), Radio Free Albemuth, and Time Out of Joint
Harlan Ellison: Deathbird Stories (replacing older copy), Mefisto in Onyx
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... and No Country for Old Men. And as for stretching the borders of genre for a bit, I contend that Phillip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly and the movie version of Blade Runner would fit right in. Drugs, sex, and violence. All you are really lookin' for in a noir.
... movies that slips through your fingers almost immediately.
I'd definitely see it again, though.
Anyone read the book (A Scanner Darkly )? I looked it up on wikipedia, it looks pretty fascinating.
Waking Life was done in the same style, right? I haven't seen A Scanner Darkly , it's either already out of cinema's or never has been (in the Netherlands) :(
I actually liked the movie better than the book, I think. Whereas A Scanner Darkly was the first Dick book I've read, I'd seen Richard Linklater's Waking Life and loved it. So while Dick's disjointed text was difficult for me to get into, I found the movie's dream quality familiar. I'm ...
Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aliester Crowley and Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick are good drug-related books, but my favorite will always be Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered ...
... in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Book Lovers London by Lesley Reader
... starts to fizzle out in the third act, at least in my opinion.
I'll also mention Richard Linklater's film adaptation of A Scanner Darkly , which I saw a little while ago. It had great potential, but it was dissapointing in the end, and h ...
I've started using audible -- so far just A Scanner Darkly , which was excellent, Zen and the Art of Tea, which was all right, and I'm currently working on Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which is Librarything's most "unread" book.
... in the last few months, which is a strong incentive to go over to audio.
I recently listened to the audio version of A Scanner Darkly , which Paul Giamatti did a great job of reading. My favorite audiobook of all time is John le Carre's Single and Single, because despite the fact ...
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