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Liked It “This is like a time capsule of the fifties, even to the embarrassing racial stereotypes and homophobia. At least the fifties I grew up in. It sometimes reads like David Goodis does Day Of The Locusts and sometimes it is like a weird Buddhist pulp fiction but whatever this trip into madness by a...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “If you're interested in reading this book because you're intending to read all of Philip K. Dick's novels, then I recommend that you do so. If this is going to be your first book by him, I recommend that you read some of his other work, otherwise you might never want to after reading this....” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“This is like a time capsule of the fifties, even to the embarrassing racial stereotypes and homophobia. At least the fifties I grew up in. It sometimes reads like David Goodis does Day Of The Locusts and sometimes it is like a weird Buddhist pulp fiction but whatever this trip into madness by a television salesman is a compelling ride.”
Hatrack wrote this review 11 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A dark story about Stuart Hadley, well-educated, artistic, 25 year old living in San Francisco during the early 1950s. Hadley seems to have all of the components for a happy existence: He's married to an attractive wife, has intelligent friends, a decent job. But Hadley's interior life is full of extensional angst, and Dick explores this with a level of detail and nuance that can border on the excruciating. ”
Eric S wrote this review Tuesday, November 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Couldn't get past 100 pages. I'm thinking PKD didn't publish this for a reason...”
adam wrote this review Thursday, July 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This was one of the very first Philip Dick books. The writing style was good, but somewhat laborious. The book wasn't anything at all like I expected given the rest of Dick's work.”
bfeld wrote this review Sunday, June 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“xmas gift. one of too many to have gotten to yet.”
Matt H wrote this review Monday, April 14 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Taken on its merits, this is a pretty terrible book. The characterization is annoyingly inconsistent. In the first 200 pages very little happens, and then, in the last 100, everything explodes in a frenzy of activity that is incompatible with the pace and tone set up in the first 2/3 of the book. The protagonist is incredibly unsympathetic. For PKD fans, Voices is an interesting perspective both on some of his earliest creative ideas and the generative process of his writing (as presumably this book didn't receive the editing and reworking those published before his death did). There definitely are some worthwhile ideas here, but overall the book is alternately boring, baffling, and horrifying. Not my favorite PKD novel and far from being the best of his mainstream (non-scifi) stuff.”
Rebecca H wrote this review Tuesday, January 15 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“If you're interested in reading this book because you're intending to read all of Philip K. Dick's novels, then I recommend that you do so. If this is going to be your first book by him, I recommend that you read some of his other work, otherwise you might never want to after reading this. Voices From the Street is one of Dick's earliest works and was just recently published for the first time. Maybe that explains why I found this book to be so terrible. It is not too often that I have to actually force myself to finish a book, as was the case with this one. All the characters are one-dimensional with almost no personality, the dialogue is forced, and much of the interaction between characters seems random and unexplained. Nothing new or remotely interesting happens until about the last 50 pages. The story is just very bland and full of cliche conceptions. It's difficult to enjoy a book when one is unable to stay engaged with the story and feel empathetic toward characters. The 'voices from the street' might be warning one against the banality of the masses, but I think what they're really warning against is the reading of this book. ”
Perpetual_intellectual wrote this review Tuesday, September 18 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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