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Pedro posted a review at 2009-10-31 00:34:45.
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Interesting at times, very introspective but it lacks the drive of a good science fiction story and jumps too often into the author's own agnostic ideas.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-10-28 14:42:10.
(Language: English)
Mental!!!
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-18 19:32:09.
(Language: English)
One of the most horrid, tiresome and pointless books I've ever had the displeasure to read. Load of self-involved and simultaneously pretentious bullshit. Got to the treatise thing of that Horselover Fat character at the end of the book after battling through the rest of it and just couldn't bring myself to read another word. I could go out and get a PhD in philosophy, astrophysics and history and I still wouldn't be able to see any artistic merit in it because there isn't any.
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Evyatar posted a review at 2009-09-05 22:35:35.
(Language: English)
I don't understand the separation society makes between Sci-fi novelists and philosophers. I think the former are actually much more adapt to the nature of the universe as they are less bound by dogma (at least initially - they're simply not searching for reality). I read this book twice and the second time I did it made perfect sense, and there was a somewhat controlled nervous breakdown (that’s how it was described to me, at least) in the middle. No suicide of anyone involved though, fortunately, and the martyr approach is a very stupid one anyways. This book should only be sold inside a giant Chinese Finger Trap. With, like, a scary clown face on it or something. Seriously. Scariest Chinese Finger Trap, Ever.
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Andre posted a review at 2009-09-01 08:27:23.
(Language: English)
Damn... LSD is a hell of a drug
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Douglas posted a review at 2009-07-16 03:10:43.
(Language: English)
An absolutely brilliant novel where the mysticism perfectly fits in with the plot & characters. One of my all-time favorites.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-16 09:52:40.
(Language: English)
Far and away my favorite novel.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-12 15:51:14.
(Language: English)
A great read. It's definitely an existential book that might be too difficult to understand for some, or most.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-09 23:00:40.
(Language: English)
One of my favorite sci fi novels, and my favorite PKD book. Funny, not long after reading this book I began having an intense mystical experience that lasted for months and radically reshaped my world view. I am not saying Valis caused it, but it was definitely the right book to have read at the time.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-05 17:26:53.
(Language: Spanish)
Cuando un piensa en P.K.Dick, inmediatamente piensa en ciencia ficcion: y si, si bien, en alguna manera extraña este libro es ciencia ficcion, va mucho mas alla demostrando la genialidad de K. Dick como autor. Una verdadera exploracion teosofica, el autor juega con el narrador, problematizando su rol y creando una obra monumental, densa y dificl de seguir. de todas formas, sorprende con la cantidad de informacion religiosa que maneja, informacion que solo un experto en estas materias podra poner a prueba. por ultimo, la discuison que aqui se hace acerca del espacio y el tiempo, resulta clave para entender que demonios esta pasando en la serie LOST, en donde, por si no lo sabian, citan esta fantastica obra. Un placer.
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