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Rate PKD's books from most accessible to least accessible

>> No.16727956

1. OP
2. IS
3. A
4. FAGGOT

>> No.16727957

>>16727947
I can't but A Scanner Darkly was really good wasn't it?

>> No.16727959

>>16727947
They are all equally accessible and lacking in substance.

>> No.16727969

>>16727947
All of them are accessible, the variance is how much time if any he dedicated to a second draft.

In all honesty his short stories are his best works because they reflect discipline and focus.
For fun, Mary and the Giant and Puttering Around in a Small World are fun reads because they're straight contemporary and there's no deeper idea behind either.
I don't know if he was our Borges but he probably came closer than anyone preceding him. Him dying spared us from the reactionary prick he was turning into.

>> No.16727974

>>16727959
>They are all equally accessible
Yes.
>and lacking in substance.
Stop huffing your own farts because he didn't give you the subtext that makes you feel smart to decode.

>> No.16727985

>>16727969
what do you mean in that last sentence?

>> No.16727987

>>16727974
>nuclear war nuclear war
>robot girlfriend
>travelling robot salesman girlfriend problem
>divorced again
>I'm mad
>divorced again
>Failed suicide
>robot husband
>space insanity
>God cums me

>> No.16728027

>>16727947
exegesis is the least accessible,
Then VALIS, I Guess.

His early work (pot boilers) are the most accessible.

>> No.16728034

>>16727947
Strictly for the YA or beginner crowd. If you are beyond 25 you shouldn't be reading him.

>> No.16728047

>>16727947


> Zoob of Endko

>> No.16728335

>>16728034
Well I am, what are you gonna do about it?

>> No.16729108

>>16727987
Based. I like him but let's face it, a lot of his books are the same.
>It's the reality. No it wasn't this is the real reality. Plot twist at the end of the book: maybe this wasn't the real reality as well and there is a real real reality.

>> No.16729115

Where are my niggas who have read Dr. Bloodmoney?

>> No.16729518

>>16727987
>>16729108
low T hands wrote these posts

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16729526

I've read all but three, and it is best to read them when you are young. from memory: Galactic Pot healer, Game players of Titan, A Scanner Darkly, Exegesis, Dues Irae, Flow my tears.
, Ubik,Divine Invasion. High Castle is over rated. Radio Free Albemuth is better than VALIS.

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16729964

less approachable: maze, counter clock, Ganymede, truth, zap gun, stigmata, clans, now wait, crack, simulacra, Martian, we can build you, humpty, crap artist,

>> No.16730010

>>16729964
Wtf I used to have dreams like this

>> No.16730156

his non sci fi like confessions of a crap artist and milton lumky territory are underrated