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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Philip K. Dick

Tags: science fiction

Description: A stunningly accurate (IMO) description of what results when you combine substance abuse andA stunningly accurate (IMO) description of what results when you combine substance abuse and schizophrenia. What gets me are the conversations, the paranoid daydreams, and the trippy group tangents that have to be "broken" by a third party or sane bystander lest the individual or group follow them over the ragged edge. Fifth star withheld so far because it's almost *too* gritty. I like him better when he fragments reality and leaves his protagonists' minds (mostly) intact. ****...

2005-11-14