THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: BlueTsunami on October 20, 2007, 06:30:56 PM
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Oh man, what the Germans did to Africa... :(
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Damn, I really need to finish up Blood Meridian so I get to work on that PKD collection. :hyper
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Damn, I really need to finish up Blood Meridian so I get to work on that PKD collection. :hyper
Jesus, slowpoke.
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i'm going to finish reading angels and demons by dan brown :-\
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Damn, I really need to finish up Blood Meridian so I get to work on that PKD collection. :hyper
Jesus, slowpoke.
I know. (I'm sorry I didn't start it with you guys) :(
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Its pretty good Cajole. The Germans in this book are like detached psychopaths.
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Dunno if it's true or if Dick was just trying to talk up his most acclaimed book, but he claimed that he actually wrote it while consulting the i-ching about what would happen next in the book.
Personally, I think he was just looking for a hype point, since the book, great as it is, isn't so drastically different from other Dick books that I'd believe he did anything substantially different to write it (aka benzedrine and isolation).
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Dunno if it's true or if Dick was just trying to talk up his most acclaimed book, but he claimed that he actually wrote it while consulting the i-ching about what would happen next in the book.
Personally, I think he was just looking for a hype point, since the book, great as it is, isn't so drastically different from other Dick books that I'd believe he did anything substantially different to write it (aka benzedrine and isolation).
I haven't read the others yet (I'm about to read Three Stigmata) but what I got from the Wiki page is that he used the I Ching for plot points and which direction he should go. But it does sound like, as you said, a hype point when trying to play up the book.
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Another reason I think it's just a hype point is that it seems like the i ching's appearance in the novel in itself was something of a hype point, too. It's no secret that Dick was from Berekley, so I am sure he got exposed to a lot of shitty hippy crap before it was hip, so maybe the publication date of High Castle coincides when all that bullshit was catching on as a buzzword.
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Yea, so I gave up on Blood Meridian and started reading this. Seven chapters in and it's fucking great. Why didn't I start reading PKD earlier? Jesus.
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Whats it about?
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Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.
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Yea, so I gave up on Blood Meridian and started reading this. Seven chapters in and it's fucking great. Why didn't I start reading PKD earlier? Jesus.
Wait until you read Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. You will spray semen everywhere.
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Ubik rocks my socks
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I'm pretty sure my mother bought me that PKD set for Christmas. :bow
I also asked for a sexy Will Smith copy of I Am Legend.
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I'm pretty sure my mother bought me that PKD set for Christmas. :bow
I also asked for a sexy Will Smith copy of I Am Legend.
I hope you get this instead
(http://estb.msn.com/i/CA/2F6EDD3855F1315BCF4552F9632C1F.jpg)
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Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.
What would that appeal to me?
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I'm pretty sure my mother bought me that PKD set for Christmas. :bow
I also asked for a sexy Will Smith copy of I Am Legend.
I hope you get this instead
(http://estb.msn.com/i/CA/2F6EDD3855F1315BCF4552F9632C1F.jpg)
Fuck, now I'm gonna have to sneak a peak.
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Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.
What would that appeal to me?
You wouldn't have to worry about crazy Muslims anymore.
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Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.
What would that appeal to me?
You wouldn't have to worry about crazy Muslims anymore.
I dont worry about them.
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I read The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch over the summer. Great books.
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Giving up on Blood makes me sad.
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two years ago i tried to read every pkd book in print over the summer.
i got through 10 of them or so at which point reality began to visibly tip so i stopped
my absolute favorite of his books is Radio Free Albemuth
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Yea, so I gave up on Blood Meridian and started reading this. Seven chapters in and it's fucking great. Why didn't I start reading PKD earlier? Jesus.
Wait until you read Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. You will spray semen everywhere.
You weren't kidding. I'm a few chapters in and my cock is already harder than it's ever been.