Activity timeline
May 18, 2009
ramanan added Iran Diary to their library.
May 12, 2009
May 4, 2009
And i'm done. Ubik was insane. Perhaps crazier than Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridtch. I'll have to re-read both at some point in time. This set was so good I decided to buy the follow up anthology.
April 28, 2009
April 27, 2009
ramanan added My Uncle Napoleon to their library.
April 26, 2009
I've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep before. It's the story they used as the basis for Blade Runner. The book and the film are quite different, though they cover a lot of similar themes.
I finished Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridtch. It was really quite fascinating (and bleak). An interesting look at drug use.
April 24, 2009
April 23, 2009
I'm onto the second book in this anthology now, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridtch. I can see why Dick is sometimes called a Pulp write. This book has some great descriptions: "frail and blonde but huge in the balcony," "There was something about her—beyond the obvious physical, anatomical enormity—that fascinated him"
The books a very interesting look at drug use. I suppose the time it was written has much to do with that. (And, as I understand things, the fact Dick was probably a serious-ass addict of sorts.) The whole sequence with Leo in the Chew-D fantasy was thoroughly bizarre and enjoyable.
ramanan added The Dead Sea Scrolls to their library.
April 22, 2009
ramanan added Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell to their library.
