![]() ![]() It's the dissociative self-hate that participation in drug culture during the war on drugs led to, both for law enforcement pretending to be in the culture and to those who themselves *are* the culture. I say that as someone that loves sci-fi and usually gets bored with other genres- the genre elements detracted from the story here.Įither way, the elements that stay with you in this book aren't the tech or the reality play. It certainly made me regret that PKD had trouble getting published outside of the genre- this didn't really need the sci-fi window dressing, would have probably been better as magical realism or psychedelic memoir. ![]() Whether that makes it a better or worse novel for it, that's up to you. That means it is a much greater exploration of the early meth culture of Southern California than it is weird sci-fi ideas. Here, there are fewer scattershot novel ideas, and a lot more development of the core concept. The ideas are why you read PKD, not the writing. ![]() And, yes, the movie tracks incredibly well to the book, minimal mods and mostly those as clarifications rather than just changes. ![]() So the writing is way more polished than most PKD. Maybe because, according to Wikipedia, one of his five wives did a significant amount of editing and rewriting, even got assigned royalties for it. To my mind, this is the best written Philip K Dick I've seen. ![]()
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