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Posted 2014-01-14 9:14 PM (#6083 - in reply to #6071)
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Deven Science - 2014-01-13 1:38 PM I read DADoES? quite some years ago, and I mostly just remember it being a bit of a confusing mess. It had some great ideas, and great imagery, but even as I'm now reading Through a Scanner, Darkly for this challenge, I'm finding that my own opinion is that PKD is a bit overrated. I haven't read a lot of him, admittedly, but what I have doesn't make sense. That may mean he is deep, but it also might mean he's indecipherable.

 I understand completely, everybody loved the Demolished Man, but frankly I was less than impressed, just couldn't get past Bester's writing style. I enjoyed DADoES because it reminded me of the hard boiled detective novel of the 40s and 50s, although I wouldn't describe Deckard as hard boiled. Although I enjoy some of the more "literate" stuff,  I think the novels I enjoy most are rip roaring space ( or fantasy) adventures, and space operas.  Just a shallow reader at heart I guess. 


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