Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Minority Report
by Philip K. Dick
This one's a collection of stories by Philip K. Dick. It's anchored by "Minority Report" and "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale", the two tales that were the basis of the movies Minority Report and Total Recall. Those are the best stories in the collection. The rest are entertaining enough, though I think I enjoyed them more for their nostalgia value. They very much have a 50's-60's feel to them.
Check it out.
LibraryThing link
This one's a collection of stories by Philip K. Dick. It's anchored by "Minority Report" and "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale", the two tales that were the basis of the movies Minority Report and Total Recall. Those are the best stories in the collection. The rest are entertaining enough, though I think I enjoyed them more for their nostalgia value. They very much have a 50's-60's feel to them.
Check it out.
LibraryThing link
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
I picked this up at an airport bookstore in a last minute scramble to fetch some reading material. It was one of those "classics" of its genre--in this case alternate history--that I've been meaning to read but never quite managed to pick up. It's set in 1962 America, a post war nation occupied by its Japanese and German conquerers. It probably has a lot of insights into one's personal and national identity. Unfortunately, I didn't quite get it. I was killing time on the flight home after a nice vacation, and was devouring the book like junk food. Oh, well. I suppose I should hang onto it just in case I want to try again.
You should check it out, too.
LibraryThing link
I picked this up at an airport bookstore in a last minute scramble to fetch some reading material. It was one of those "classics" of its genre--in this case alternate history--that I've been meaning to read but never quite managed to pick up. It's set in 1962 America, a post war nation occupied by its Japanese and German conquerers. It probably has a lot of insights into one's personal and national identity. Unfortunately, I didn't quite get it. I was killing time on the flight home after a nice vacation, and was devouring the book like junk food. Oh, well. I suppose I should hang onto it just in case I want to try again.
You should check it out, too.
LibraryThing link
Labels: CheckItOut, PhilipDick
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