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Gaspare posted a review at 2009-11-20 13:05:54.
(Language: Italian)
 
Ho acquistato una vecchia edizione di questo romanzo (copertina cartonata, illustrazione bruttissima, traduzione non eccellente...), lustri fa, in una piccola e scalcinata libreria vicina alla Stazione Termini. L'ho letto d'un fiato, e all'ultima pagina ho scoperto uno strano, amarissimo sapore in bocca. L'ho ritrovato, dopo tanti anni, e letto con la stessa curiosità della prima volta.Angosciante, avvincente, devastante per chi crede nella realtà senza se e senza ma. I temi di fondo sono quelli, costanti, dei grandi romanzi di Dick: il potere (economico e politico) e il suo cinismo, il controllo della devianza, il ribaltamento (sarcastico e pessimistico) dell'attualità degli anni '60 (il ruolo dell'ONU, le droghe, la spiritualità). E' banale dire che, se Dick avesse scritto adesso "Stigmata", avrebbe sostituito Perky Pat, la bambola-avatar bionda e disinibita, con qualche maggiorata da reality? Dick è consapevole del fatto che nessuno tra noi saprebbe resistere alla tentazione di tornare indietro nel tempo per rimediare agli errori commessi, per riscrivere la propria storia, per ritrovare amori e dolcezze per sempre perdute. Ed è consapevole anche dell'inutilità del suo tentativo di svelare l'inganno (ordito da chi? Da Palmer Eldritch? Da Dio? Dalla nostra natura di esseri divorati dai rimorsi?) di cui siamo vittime. 
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Joe posted a review at 2009-11-02 10:18:05.
(Language: English)
I try not to gush, but this is a masterpiece. It gives me goosebumps to read it, and there are few books that have ever done that. The fact that PKD is not considered to be on the same level as Pynchon, Barthelme, and Calvino is a failure of our culture, not his writing. A billion stars.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-08-03 23:18:00.
(Language: English)
In a world of extreme global warming, corrupt corporations, and rampant drug use, this book from 1965 is strangely prescient. The world’s richest and most powerful man, Leo Bulero, derives his income from the illegal sale of a drug called Can-D. Can-D users enter a virtual life not unlike what video gamers experience in modern day Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), except that Can-D users are completely immersed in their fantasy lives, returning to their dreary real lives all too soon. When mysterious space explorer Palmer Eldritch returns from the Prox system with a competing drug called Chew-Z, Leo schemes to eliminate Palmer with the help of his key employee Barney Mayerson, a psychic who sees future events as probabilities. The novel begins innocently enough, but the last half is a mind-bending foray on reality in a quintessential Philip K. Dick manner. Readers will long ponder the meaning of the book’s events, themes, and ideas. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich is not a trivial science fiction adventure—it is a wonderful piece of literature, a multi-layered examination of everything from religion and philosophy to individual freedom and responsibility that remains relevant over 40 years after it was written.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-08-02 11:35:02.
(Language: English)
Greatest mindfuck ever.
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Duncan posted a review at 2009-07-31 01:55:50.
(Language: English)
As always, Dick's concerns are identity, social norms, and women with dark hair. Sub-themes include time travel, belief, power, reality, commodities, and drugs. John Lennon planned to film this one, if legend can be believed.
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Ross posted a review at 2009-04-06 09:40:16.
(Language: English)
Mindblowingly awesome, typical PKD. My brain hurts.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-24 02:38:36.
(Language: English)
I enjoyed this one, but the more of his books I read, the more I realize Mr. Dick was one disturbed, paranoid individual. But I suppose creativity almost always comes with a dose of madness.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-10 00:22:55.
(Language: English)
One of his best. Sinister and surreal.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-12-06 05:47:16.
(Language: English)
The best PKD -- drugs and the self on top of all the usual beauty of Dick. I'm usually expecting a good mindfuck from PKD, and he almost always delivers. But this one, he sent me into my mattress, my pillow sucking out my eyeballs. It might be a touch tough to get into -- esp for those who haven't taken way too many drugs -- but if you let the idea fall out of your mind it'll make its way around and maybe into it.
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