Slog - Comments on La-di-Da, LBJ. Here are Some books that I Have Read http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are Coming in May 2007, sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick is transmogrified into a literary writer. The American Library is dedicating one of their fine fine editions to four Dick novels, including Ubik, which, in my opinion, is one of the greatest American novels. If you haven't read Ubik, it's about how the reach of corporate culture extends into the land of the dead. It also features the creepiest villian, besides Enron's Andy Fastow, in American letters. I realize that Andy Fastow, detailed in this great book, is non-fiction. But as PKD once said, Ubik is non-fiction!! The other 3 Dick... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:30:09 -0800 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:48:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by monkey BLADE RUNNER!!!

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508146 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508146 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:29:40 -0800 Comment by golob A Scanner Darkly is also quite excellent. PKD's short stories are worth a read as well.

He is the author for our present era. Cynical and conspiratorial stories set in a vaguely authoritarian dystopia.

]]> golob http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508148 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508148 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:33:18 -0800 Comment by Some Jerk I think his best work is his last, Radio Free Albemuth. And still so relevant:


Plot Summary:


In the late 1960's, a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. A struggling science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties. And Dick's best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial entity that may also happen to be God - an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the President.

]]> Some Jerk http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508161 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508161 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:50:57 -0800 Comment by charles his short stories are great, and are a great place to start. i read on the bus to and from work, and i particularly like reading pkd during these trips because the paranoia and insanity from his words seep into your brain and you start thinking that everyone around you is a simulacrum or that puddle of body fluid on the floor is actually telepathic slime mold.

currently i'm reading dr. bloodmoney.

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508398 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508398 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:13:59 -0800 Comment by wf The 3 Stigmata... is the craziest fucking book I've ever read. Genius.

]]> wf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508524 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508524 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:44:09 -0800 Comment by skweetis I vote for Valis.

]]> skweetis http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508566 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:58:22 -0800 Comment by James27 You all are high "Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said" is not only his best novel but the best english language title EVER.

]]> James27 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/ladida_lbj_here_are#c508669 Arts Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:48:01 -0800