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Original Title:	Time Out of Joint
ISBN:	037571927X (ISBN13: 9780375719271)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ragle Gumm

Time Out of Joint

Philip K. Dick

Paperback | Pages: 255 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 10294 Users | 615 Reviews

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Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.

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Title	:	Time Out of Joint
Author	:	Philip K. Dick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 255 pages
Published	:	May 14th 2002 by Vintage (first published April 22nd 1959)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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This is my third of Dicks six 1950s novels. The other two were The Cosmic Puppets and The World Jones Made. On the surface, Time Out of Joint reminds me of The Cosmic Puppets. Both are linear narratives, both are set in the 50s, and most importantly, both pose questions about the nature of reality, playing with the idea that things are not what they appear to be. The novels differ primarily in how they resolve their mysteries. This is where Time Out of Joint misses its mark. Some of the most

We were at the library today for some hours, and I was milling about looking for books on my 'To-Read' list; in the absence of 'The Man in the High Castle', I decided to give this one a go - and I wasn't disappointed. Though it started a bit slowly, it picked up soon enough and then just whizzed by. It didn't take me long to finish, and it was difficult to put down. It's difficult to summarise without giving too much away, so I'll try to keep things basic - because even the description on the

This is one of PKD's earlier and lesser works. The protagonist discovers his mundane existence is a actually an elaborate hoax that covers up a much darker reality. Frankly, the author has explored this idea with much better results in later books, so that the book almost reads like a cheap knock-off of PKD himself, which was probably unavoidable since he wrote so many books just to pay the bills. I'd stick to his more famous works.

Why didn't I start reading Philip K. Dick ages ago?!?!WHERE HAVE I BEEN ALL MY LIFE

Right! You have to feel something is severly awry when you get to the bus depot! He is a tricky one, this doppelgänger Philip, always on the reader's

Philip K. Dick's Time Out of Joint may very well have influenced the producers of the film The Truman Show. Orson Scott Card may also have gotten some ideas for Ender's Game. PKD tells this one close to the vest for the first half of the book, slowly developing the action and leaving some M. Night Shyamalan type clues along the way for the reader to pick up. This was published in 1959, one of his earlier novels and an observant reader of PKD will notice a more subtle approach than some of his