I've never read Valis. I think the one I've read that hangs
together best is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It's
his most coherent in terms of plot, which is an
accomplishment because it was also one of his more complex
novels. I had been thinking of rereading it again before it
cropped up here, and I might just have to move it to near the
top of my list. Incidentally, back in 1998 a Blade Runner
computer game got made, and it got closer to the source
material than any version of Ridley Scott's movie ever
managed to do.
(How many of them are there now, 20?). Every once in a while
it crops up on lists of best computer games. It's worth
checking out if you're into Dick and old school adventure
games.
On 10/26/07,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> Nathan wrote:
>
> "Dick had a lot of talent, undisciplined as he was.
He could've been
> more than a cult figure if he had been more serious
about his craft and
> less so about the drugs."
>
> I thought the best by far of the 8 to 10 of his
books I've read was
> Valis, though it doesn't really fit in here. There
he showed some of
> the discipline you so rightly claim he lacked.
Perhaps because it was a
> complete rewrite of a book his editors asked for a
minor rewrite on,
> Rado Free Albemuth.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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