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>He wrote 45 novels[2] and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines.[3]

Even if I were to start now I still wouldn't finish it all before death :(
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Say on novel is 200 pages, then he wrote 9000 pages in novels. If you ready 50 pages a day then you can finish all his novels in 180 days.
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>>25204291
Goodbye to my social life :D
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>>25204287
>Dick
>Land
>Hitler
Meth is the Patrician's drug
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Most of his novels can be read in a few hours and most of his novels are not worth reading.

t. has read all of his novels and short stories
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>>25205140
>and most of his novels are not worth reading
Oooh.. Philip catching heat here lol
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The patrician choice for robot vagina snakes.
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>>25205160
He would agree. He regressed as a writer during his drug phase and did not start progressing until he sobered up. From a strictly writing standpoint, A Scanner Darkly is the novel that should have followed High Castle. He had a few decent novels between the two but they were still mostly regressions.
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>>25205178
Yes, drugs are bad news and along with alcohol the downfall of many great writers.
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>>25205321
Without the drugs and the subsequent sobriety we never would have gotten A Scanner Darkly. Sure he would have progressed more as a writer but we don't know that would have been enough on its own. Drugs and alcohol and addiction are a fact of life and "drugs bad" completely misses the point of A Scanner Darkly, PKD and reduced both to a limp PSA. Moralizing does more harm than good.
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>>25205344
Very true. It depends on the writer I guess.
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>>25205161
What about his work do you like?
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>>25205894
He really tried to dissect human sexuality. He failed but at least he failed in an entertaining way. Kind of like how Heinlein failed but in a spectacular way, I suppose.
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Today I will read Second Variety.
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Just don't die?????
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>>25205121
your life is already worthless, you pathetic worm.
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My to-read list for this year alone was 40 titles.
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>>25209297
Mine is like 400 and that's for about 3, maybe 4 months
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>>25209161
Nah I'm perfectly content with my life. You have a stick up your ass every day of your life and are just mean-spirited to random strangers on the internet. Your mom and dad probably didn't hug you enough as a kid lol.
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>>25209891
we used to have :( and now its lol, the muffled crying sounds remain
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ubik is peak dick ##no dick pics##
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>>25210314
Your post doesn't make any sense whatsoever. B^)
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>>25210345
Unironically. I re-read it last year and it blew me away.



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