What does /lit/ think of PKD? What's his best book?Was he right all along?
>>8254785
I wouldn't call him exactly right. He had some leads, but no idea how deep it goes.
>>8254785
He was based as fuck
He inspired me to pick up an amphetamine addiction.
>>8254785
>What's his best book?
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
https://vimeo.com/92106186
Maze of Death is pretty darn rad
>>8254785
Ubik is the best one i think
>>8256778
Flow My Tears is the only novel of his I've read, and if that's really his best I'll gladly never read another.
>>8256935
I've read a couple and Flow My Tears was the worst.
Go for Do Androids... or a short story collection.
>>8257142
UBIK is easily his best book, followed by A Scanner Darkly and then Flow My Tears (imo).
>>8256539
Been thinking about picking up an amphetamine habit. Is it worth it? Or am I better off with an opiate habit, a la Coleridge and Burroughs?
>>8257320
Don't do either you fucking mong. Smoke grass.
>>8257325
That's fucking lame. Every other Chad out there is a stoner. Cannabis isn't a very literary drug, unless in the form of hashish, especially when combined with opium.
>>8257333
Do you want a miserable life? Because you don't want to be addicted to a substance.
>>8257241
Ubik is a good action story but it's not his best book (that would be Flow My Tears... or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch)
>>8257333
You gotta be kidding me
>>8257399
>>8257421
Plebs.
>>8256935
This, I thought the "Taverner being so desperate for human contact he hugs a random guy at the gas station" bit was surprisingly poignant for a pulpy SF, but otherwise shaky execution of a great concept. We Can Build You is probably his worst tho.
>>8256539
>>8257320
Fun fact: PKD once managed to overdose on Vitamin C
>>8257439
Source?
>>8257448
http://alt.fan.rawilson.narkive.com/4HLeqPRE/philip-k-dick-s-vitamin-recipe
Overdose probably isn't technically correct, but he took massive amounts and claimed it made the hemispheres of his brain connect differently
>>8257489
Appreciate it family.
Thoughts on the alien channeling through him?
>>8257545
You can get diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, headaches, insomnia, and kidney stones from megadoses.
>>8257540
Classic case of psychosis.
>>8258060
Schizo or manic?
>>8258060
what about theson's hernia? also thehigh degree of self-awareness evinced in VALIS?
>>8259520
His diagnosis of his son's hernia was from a hypochondriac-type search in the medical books for an answer.
>>8259562
You just made that shit up.
I'm gonna have to say that all of his books are worth reading, especially if you intend on finishing with the Valis Trilogy (his best works) and his Exegesis (or at least what they have released of it thus far.)
>>8254785
>>8259892
accurate
His thoughts weren't that farfetched.
It's how he expressed them that made most think he was a nutjob.
