Mommy issues>Mental illness>Drugs>GnosticismMany such cases. The pipeline is real.
>>24764199I do love me some Dick. I feel like every young man goes through a phase of loving Dick sometime in his early-mid twenties, but the love for Dick never truly dies. Dick has left an indelible impression on me.
>>24764199I've started a couple of his books and they don't really snag. Just feels like he's making stuff up.
I read all of his short stories and novellas. Most of better known novels until 1970. Currently reading Scanner Darkly
>>24764351Zoomer moment
>>24764360Oh nevermind I just found a guy summarizing every chapter of Ubik (or whatever its called) in shortform snippets and that shit was fire
>>24764383Nah dog u were dead ass to critique a fiction writer for "just making stuff up" fr fr on god
>>24764383Kys
>>24764351Which books
>>24764425The man in the high castle and ubik. I'm gonna give them another go before long. It just felt too Vonnegutty for my desires at that time. Its "suffering" from the Seinfeld effect where it feels dated because it invented the cliche. My brain is reading it like a David Wong novel, not something from the 1960s
>>24764446Try VALIS or Scanner. They're more autobiographical.
>>24764458Appreciate the recs! I might microdose some mescaline to get into his headspace (barely joking)
>>24764458>autobiographical
>>24764199One of these days I'm gonna read his booksI love all his stories but I've only seen film adaptations of his worksPlus it's cool that he did speed
>>24764463Yes, actually.
>>24764321True
i've watched the movies, that's good enough 4 me. and now it's been long enough; who (are) the next generation of PKD? ill read their books instead
>>24764199He looks like an elder statesman of the hardcore punk scene.
>>24764616what's the shirt say?
>>24764616he basically was a weird, lonely crazy dude who opened his home to runaways, street kids and dope fiends. that's how he got all fucked up on meth. said he hung out with fags, too. could've been doing bennies and stuff in the 50s before this, but i don't think he really became a speed freak until the freaks he let in turned him onto meth.
>>24764622he definitely blew up his own safe, by the way. or i suppose one of his drug tenants might've tried to rob him. definitely not some weird conspiracy like he claimed.
>>24764625>>24764622btw, i think he was a fine writer and maybe the most interesting storyteller of the 20th century. not trying to dismiss his genius, but let's be real about this cat
>>24764617It's the work of American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician Gary Panter.
>>24764630cool, ty anon
