Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 ok, i assume there are fans on this board. ive read 'the divine invasion' and 'valis'. wasnt too keen on 'divine invasion' but 'valis' absolutely blew me away. such a bizarre and fascinating book. has anyone read it? id really like to read more of his stuff and am thinking of picking up 'ubik'. whats generally considered to be dicks best book? i read this fantastic bio of him called 'i am alive and you are dead'. really great book and anyone interested in his work should check it out. also, this bbc arena documentary is absolutely fantastic. ive seen it a couple of times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 blade runner is fucking fantastic I really liked a scanner darkly the rest were meh haven't read a book of his tho, it's on the to-do list edit: last post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 i forgot about a scanner darkly. the movie was pretty cool, but ill bet the book is better.. id love to see a film version of valis. im not sure how youd do it tho.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I'll make it one day..... and 'The Divine Invasion' is one of my most favourite books ever.... but you are correct, 'VALIS' is his best work, as much as I know, haven't read nearly all of his novels or short stories, but I have feeling that if I did, 'VALIS' would still hold its own as one of the greatest novels ever written... some folk are making a biopic with Paul Giamatti as PKD, based on his last story idea and his life..... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840404/ based on this book: http://www.amazon.com/World-Their-Heaven-C.../ref=pd_sim_b_1 which is a collection of his last interviews.... 'The Owl in Daylight' would have been an incredible story... Died too early.... An incredible human this man was, is and will always be......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 why did you like 'the divine invasion' so much? its been a while since i read it, so its a bit hazy in my memory.. i just remember it leaving me a bit cold paul giamatti as philip k dick might be interesting.. ive read that book of interviews. i remember buying it because i thought the title was really cool.. but i dont remember a thing from it. time for a reread.. have you read r crumbs 'the religious experience of philip k dick'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcinsu Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 i read a few of his books and i consider him one of my favorite SF writers, if not the favorite. it's been many years since i read a book of his, but i remember Ubik and The Man in the High Castle were both really great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my usernames always really suck Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I don't see much a difference between Dick's insanity and L Ron Hubbard's psychotic ramblings. The only difference is Dick didn't turn his personal theologies into an Mafiaesque New Age cult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I don't see much a difference between Dick's insanity and L Ron Hubbard's psychotic ramblings. The only difference is Dick didn't turn his personal theologies into an Mafiaesque New Age cult. agreed. We've had PKD threads before. I'm mixed on the guy. I like him more as an "idea guy" than I like his actual novels. Personally I have a low threshold for paranoid ramblings, misanthropy and misogyny. I also don't consider himself a particularly good writer, in the sense of his command of language and ear for dialogue, etc. I haven't read Valis though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I don't see much a difference between Dick's insanity and L Ron Hubbard's psychotic ramblings. The only difference is Dick didn't turn his personal theologies into an Mafiaesque New Age cult. dicks a gnostic, while hubbards a sci-fi opportunist. plus, dicks stuff is only sci-fi on the surface... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest snowpepsi Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 The whole "movie" part of Valis is actually another Dick story called Radio Free Albemuth (I think it remained unavailable for a while) and I read a while ago that some small film company was making THAT into a movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 id say the best film adaptations of pkds work have been 'blade runner' and 'total recall'. 'a scanner darkly' was good but i had no desire to watch it more than once... this is based solely on how good the films are, as i havent read the books they were adapted from... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Key Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I'd recommend 'What If Our World Is Their Heaven?' a book of transcripted interviews from shortly before Dick's death, he talks a lot about his unfinished novel The Owl In Daylight which iirc is very electronic music, about a race of aliens who think in music, and put an implant in a hack hollywood composers head or something- its all about the relationship between sound, colour and maths. He talks a bit about having seen an early screening of Bladerunner and is very impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaen Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 flow my tears, the policeman said very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 The style that Ridley Scott is best at is obviously scifi. He should just stick to that genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 He talks a bit about having seen an early screening of Bladerunner and is very impressed. yeah, i recall reading that. i think he said something like it was just how he pictured it in his head.. although in that doc i linked above they mentioned he apparently was not happy at all with how the decker character was turning out ... owl in the daylight sounds like it would have been amazing. what a fascinating premise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest naos Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 ok, i assume there are fans on this board. ive read 'the divine invasion' and 'valis'. wasnt too keen on 'divine invasion' but 'valis' absolutely blew me away. such a bizarre and fascinating book. has anyone read it? id really like to read more of his stuff and am thinking of picking up 'ubik'. whats generally considered to be dicks best book? i read this fantastic bio of him called 'i am alive and you are dead'. really great book and anyone interested in his work should check it out. also, this bbc arena documentary is absolutely fantastic. ive seen it a couple of times be shure you don't miss Flow my tears the policeman said and Blade Runner.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tidbit Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 yes, i also like these obvious threads too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 cool, thanks for the smug contribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tidbit Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 yes, thanks for all these threads.. they are nice and fine also dark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klanty Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I know they're making a version of Radio Free Albemuth but I read somewhere that the movie sections of VALIS was based on his own tripped out reading of that Bowie film, the man who fell to earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 awesome. once again, im glad you decided to contribute. @tidbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkaholic Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 ubik is fantastic man in the high castle eye in the sky (falls apart towards the end though) intergalactic pot healer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tidbit Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 top3 contributers of internet 1. zbz 2. 3. joyrex 4. weed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 jesus christ, im so fucking bored of arguing with people. go fuck off out of this thread. no one made you open it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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