Philip K. Dick
Paperback | Pages: 242 pages Rating: 3.93 | 23170 Users | 1491 Reviews
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| Original Title: | VALIS |
| ISBN: | 0679734465 (ISBN13: 9780679734468) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | VALIS Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Philip K. Dick, Horselover Fat |
| Setting: | Santa Ana, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (1985) |
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VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.Mention Of Books VALIS (VALIS Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | VALIS (VALIS Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Philip K. Dick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 242 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2004 by Vintage Books (first published February 1981) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Philosophy. Religion. Novels. Science Fiction Fantasy. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 23170 Users | 1491 ReviewsJudgment Of Books VALIS (VALIS Trilogy #1)
I was prompted to read this after it popped up in a season 4 episode of LOST. Horselover Fat is both the narrator and a third-person character. He is our everyman through whom we are led in a contemplation of the nature of reality, god and sanity. Was Fat really the recipient of a beam of pink light that contained information from god? Or is he just a psycho who speaks both as himself and as his alter, and more real ego, Philip K. Dick? Is god reincarnated in a two year old child? Was earth onceWhen you spend your whole creative life walking the thin line that separates genius from madness then occasionally you are going to make a few missteps.Philip K Dick walked that line longer than most and we should be grateful he kept it together enough to write some of the most intriguing works of twentieth century science fiction. This was not one of those works.If you want to invest some time in thinking about the connections between theories of parallel worlds, Gnosticism, pre Socratic
2.5 "time I will not get back but what is time anyway" stars !!Fourth Most Fun Review Written in 2019 Award Well this was quite the experience.... Was this 1. self-indulgent onanism 2. a search for meaning in the throes of micropsychosis 3. a genius exploration of technology within the realms of christian mysticism 4. self-indulgent onanism 5. an emotionally and spiritually empty book with some intellectual vigor 6. a roundtable discussion with Phillip K Dick, Paulo Coelho, David Mitchell and
If someone were to make the You seem to like Philip K. Dick, and I want to maybe give him a shot, but I don't know where to start because he's written dozens of novels statement my instantaneous response would be, NOT Valis! Then I would add I've only read five or six of PKD's novels and I'm giddy with the prospect of reading further into his catalog. But no, no, don't start with Valis, or else you may never pick up another PKD book and you'd miss out on his masterpieces.PKD wrote Valis late in
Yesterday I started AND finished one of PKD's most profound works. I literally could not put it down. Painful, REAL, bittersweet, funny as hell, bizarre, brilliant, utterly profound. I always find it hard to write about a PKD experience because they are all life-altering, and I truly mean that. I think most scifi folks love his work before 1974 because it's simply FANTASTIC WRITING. Everything after 1974, I believe, is for the die-hards only. For people like me, who have not only read a lot of
A question we had to learn to deal with during the dope decade was, How do you break the news to someone that his brains are fried? So says the first-person narrator in VALIS, Philip K. Dicks autobiographical novel of spiritual odyssey, a novel where the narrator begins by laying out the major issues he must deal with as he attempts to gain a measure of sanity along with a sense of purpose and the meaning of life: drugs, a desire to help others, the pull of insanity, suicide and death, time and
I/he looked in the mirror to find the face of God. We are all created in God's image, or so we've been taught, I/he thought. But I/he saw no God there; instead there was fallibility, weakness, hypocrisy, despair, and longing. A desire and a need to fool oneself, to compartmentalize so that one part can hide from the other. Where is this so-called God, I/he thought. Perhaps God is disguised somehow, in the background... or camouflaged in the foreground, a Zebra hidden in plain sight.I/he looked
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