Ubik
 

Ubik (Vintage)

by Philip K. Dick

Nobody but Philip K. Dick could so successfully combine SF comedy with the unease of reality gone wrong, shifting underfoot like quicksand. Besides grisly ideas like funeral parlors where you swap gossip for the advice of the frozen dead, Ubik (1969) offers such deadpan farce as a moneyless character's attack on the robot apartment door that demands a five-cent toll:
"I'll sue you," the... (read more)

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Dan and Annette
  • Rated 4 stars

Another provocative book by Dick. Perhaps you've thought about the possibility that life is a dream. Dick carries it one step further and wonders, what if you are dead but still have enough brain activity to be dreaming and so you think you are alive? What if your brain activity could be maintained after death to enough of an extent that you could communicate with those still living? How can you know whether or not you are dead or alive? Interesting book with all the ends still loose at the...

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EmperorNorton
  • Rated 2 stars

Interesting book about the all-encompassing question: What is real? Though well written, the story takes a look at reality from so many differet angles, that oce you get into it you start losig it. This confusion is not resolved by the end, in fact, it just keeps getting more mind boggling.

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • aaron d

    aaron d said:

    Philip Dick is like crack, but really, really good crack.

    posted Thursday, December 6 2007
  • aaron d

    aaron d said:

    Philip Dick is like crack.

    posted Thursday, December 6 2007
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