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| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 03/13/2005 : 12:28:41 PM
Just wondering if any of the heads on this board were Dick fans. (sweet, sweet double entendre) I read VALIS (a couple of times) a while back and it really got me thinking about shit, specifically things Tim has mentioned about the Nag Hammadi, and the gospel of St. Thomas. I just find that stuff very interesting.
I really hate the sci-fi genre for the most part, but Dick has a way of bringing it to life a bit. I'm not too big a fan of the dumb movies they make of the guy's books (though Minority Report wasn't too bad I guess) but, nonetheless, if anyone here has any suggested reads by him or similar authors, hook me up, bitches.
I've read (by Dick): VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, The Divine Transformation, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and The Man in the High Tower
There's a biography out about him now that I'm thinking about picking up called, "I'm Alive and You're Dead." Apparently a character from his book Ubik scrawled the phrase "You're all dead. I am alive." on bathroom walls. I like it. Wal-Mart, here I come. |
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| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 03/14/2005 : 11:19:24 AM
And as far as movie conversions go, you can forget it. Hollywood is run by the almighty dollar, not the integrity of the story. What do they care? Someone had an idea, someone else made it into something a lot of people would buy into. It's all hack bullshit. Oh well. Dog bless America. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 03/14/2005 : 11:16:45 AM
Well, again, I really can't stand sci-fi, I just like how Dick interweaves real theological philosophy into some of his novels. If you read VALIS you'd know more of what I'm talking about I guess. I hate reading in general, but I couldn't put that book down. As long as fiction has some non-fiction in it, it's not all bad. But I'd have a hard time roughing through a book that was just a figment of someone else's imagination. If wanted to hallucinate... |
| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 03/13/2005 : 5:40:21 PM
Ender's Game. Yes. |
| tericee |
Posted - 03/13/2005 : 3:55:33 PM
If you want to compare another excellent book to an the film version, PKD also wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," which was the basis for Bladerunner, starring Harrison Ford.
As far as other authors go, if you haven't read Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein) or Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), I highly recommend those as outstanding examples of Sci Fi. |
| tericee |
Posted - 03/13/2005 : 3:51:36 PM
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Originally posted by Hopeful Rolling Waves
I'm not too big a fan of the dumb movies they make of the guy's books (though Minority Report wasn't too bad I guess)
As a stand-alone, Minority Report was an enjoyable film, but as a reflection of the book, it annoyed me. (Not as much as Starship Troopers, though.) The book obviously wasn't as high tech as the movie since PKD wrote it many many years ago, but it ended in exactly the opposite way. Why does Hollywood do that? |
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