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# Haha
I enjoyed the film and I ruddy love the book so more like this please :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 22:57, archived)
# it was a great film :)
but very confusing
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:05, archived)
# Philip K FTW!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:12, archived)
# I would probably go splut in my shreddies if they made a film of The Man in the High Castle
Or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:20, archived)
# They should make a film of The Zap Gun,
because that is his best book. HIS BEST FUCKING BOOK! I wish they would make films of all of his books, but Tom Cruise should be cut up in the bollock region and they should remake The Minority Report. Tom Cruise, and Steven Spielberg are cunts!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 0:15, archived)
# I got this obscure 80s scifi film called Terminus
at the beginning there's a black chauffer car with the registration "PK DICK" which leaves me wondering if the film was inspired by a Philip K Dick story
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:46, archived)
# !
I'm making my way through A Scanner Darkly now.

Gone through Ubik, Flow my tears the policeman said and The Man in the High Castle so far this year. I'm a right Dick.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 23:52, archived)
# Are they the only ones you've read?
You have to read his short stories, his best ideas were all in there, but also read The Zap Gun. It's my fave. I don't know why, it's a bit shit, but I love it :D
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 0:33, archived)
# ^This
But Scanner Darkly is still my favourite (mostly because I read it when I was at uni and my bedroom faced opposite a Heroin den - Trufact)
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 0:48, archived)
# Cheers, I'll have to try em out.
It started when I tried out Ubik and I really fell in love with the characters. He does really write well on a personal level as well as juggling along cerebral concepts. Flow My Tears I thought was a bit jarring at times but it seemed so good in other places that I thought it should be ripe for some sort of cinematic adaptation.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 1:14, archived)
# Flow my tears was written during his mental breakdown
So it feels a little... disconcerting.... to me
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 1:24, archived)
# Yeah I read about that too.
Was definitely interested in getting VALIS after hearing that. But it's not the plot that bothers me per se. I mean the distance the protagonist travels is a little iffy, it's just the way the twist is delivered seems a little quick. However, the ending, (which I had no idea eventually carried more weight with him than I) was really quite beautiful.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 1:47, archived)