I really love Philip K Dick's novels, but I just finished

>>9908491
I didn't particularly like or "get" it either - it's mildly interesting that the people in the alternate history like reading about our version of history, but that's about it. No idea what he meant by all the I Ching stuff.

>>9908491
Don't think it's anything beyond an alternate-history novel.
I found it very underwhelming, and it actually put me off from reading any of his other works. Then i read Ubik and i was blown away
It was his first novel though, don't be tough on the guy

kill your self bookfag

It helps to know that every time a character brings out the I-Ching, Dick literally did the same thing and used the results to determine their actions.

The novel was written using the I-Ching, just like The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

>>9908491
as >>9908586 says, the author of the Grasshopper Lies Heavy is Dick, himself. Allegedly he wrote The Man in the High Castle in the same way that the author did and he thus felt very shaken up by the ramifications of it. Unfortunately Dick neglects to mention this an any afterword which severely undercuts the metaphysical theme that runs through the book.

For its time, I think it's conceptually very interesting but in terms of PKDs own work it's mid-tier. Everyone reads it because the premise is an easy sell. But when I talk about what something like Three Stigmata is about, which I think is just outright better, it's difficult to break the book down into a easy to digest premise like with high castle or even Ubik (which I also feel is overrated within his own work.)

>>9908658
>>9908505
>>9908491
agree with all these posts. big time dick fan and severely disappointed by this novel.

>>9908530
>It was his first novel though, don't be tough on the guy
ha what?

Agree and I'm not really a dick fan. It was ok but it's popularity is due to its ability to be used as a launching pad for pseuds.

The thing with literary "intellectuals" OP is they need fuel to make shit up. All this nonsense about "Tee-hee, what is real what is fake?" may seem lie trivial nonsense to us but it really does fuel academia pseuds.

>>9909381
Hey it's interesting to consider plus the Amazon series is f u n.

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>>9908491
>Dick

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>>9908595
>Unfortunately Dick neglects to mention this
i thought that it was common knowledge, thats why i read it.
>>9909381
>"Tee-hee, what is real what is fake?"
people start asking these kind of question when they took drugs and realize the gov. is lying to them.

i nearly didn't read any more dick after this one because it was so underwhelming
but fortunately i took a chance on ubik a few years later and it turns out he's one of my favourite authors

>>9910860
huh, it turns out >>9908530 had the exact same experience as me (except i'm not so retarded as to think it's his first novel)

>>9909295
>>9910867
But wasn't it his first published novel? I was confused.
The book is pretty mediocre, maybe that made me think too that it was a debut novel.

>>9908793
gay

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>>9910919
the only one previous to it i've read is eye in the sky, which i enjoyed a lot more

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