That said, I never really got that movie. Not interesting for me, too preachy.
It came at a really good time for me, since I had just finished reading most of PKD’s stuff not too long before.
I think it was one of the more faithful interpretations of his work, IMHO. It might be the book itself was rather preachy to some, I don’t know. I think he had experienced a lot of things when it came to drug use in his own life in California, and that is 100% reflected in the book…it seemed a rather unvarnished view of things.
Didn’t PK Dick write straightforward novels most of the time? Is that his one “psychedelic” book? I remember a similar book by another author, and that one didn’t click for me either.
The term Dickian (or Phildickian) is a thing because he did not write all that straightforwardly. Kind of like the way “Lynchian” is used for certain movies…
It came at a really good time for me, since I had just finished reading most of PKD’s stuff not too long before.
I think it was one of the more faithful interpretations of his work, IMHO. It might be the book itself was rather preachy to some, I don’t know. I think he had experienced a lot of things when it came to drug use in his own life in California, and that is 100% reflected in the book…it seemed a rather unvarnished view of things.
Didn’t PK Dick write straightforward novels most of the time? Is that his one “psychedelic” book? I remember a similar book by another author, and that one didn’t click for me either.
PKD, straightforward? Most definitely not.
The term Dickian (or Phildickian) is a thing because he did not write all that straightforwardly. Kind of like the way “Lynchian” is used for certain movies…
https://philipdick.com/literary-criticism/essays/phildickian-a-definition/
I guess there’s a reason why I never finished one of his books then.
But no disrespect, just a matter of personal taste.