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DrNefario
Posted 2015-05-28 6:35 AM (#10639 - in reply to #9162)
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Location: UK		I must admit, High Castle was never one of my favourites. Honestly, I think I'd probably get more out of it now, but I just found it a bit dull at the time, I think.

The ones I liked were the reality-bending books like Ubik, which is probably still my favourite, although it's a long time since I read it. The short stories are also pretty great, for the most part. As I said before I kind of gave up on PKD when I read too many turkeys. I found his work very variable. I'm planning to read at least one of his books for the 60s challenge, though.

He's always had a kind of counter-cultural cachet, and for me is one of the most interesting SF writers from a philosophical standpoint. His two big themes seemed to be "what is real?" and "what does it mean to be human?", and I always felt that the movie version of Bladerunner did a good job of being true to the latter theme while not really keeping anything else from the original.

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