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Philip K Dick is my favourite author. I’ve read Joyce, Faulkner, Nabokov, Pynchon, McCarthy, Gaddis, Beckett.. like I’m pretty familiar with classics and litera
by kinghtown 5y ago
Philip K Dick is my favourite author. I’ve read Joyce, Faulkner, Nabokov, Pynchon, McCarthy, Gaddis, Beckett.. like I’m pretty familiar with classics and literature and have read loads of SF as well, but PKD remains my #1.
- xtalx 5y agoDitto, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is my favorite book.
- Trasmatta 5y agoThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch also gets the distinction of being one of the all time best names for a book
- Trasmatta 5y agoHe's one of my favorites as well. The best description of his over arching theme that I've heard was: he explored the slippery nature of reality. Sure, he explored technology, the future, dystopias, and a number of other things. But the one concept he seemed to continue to return to was the idea that you can never truly know what's actually going on.
- bsenftner 5y agoSimilar admiration of PKD. I used to be an "addict literature reader" and have read most the books in the Classics section of a typical library. PDK is one of my top five authors, an author I've "finished" - read everything they published, and my favorites of his multiple times. I rank him with Joyce, Pynchon, Burroughs, and Hesse - the others in my top 5.