Currently reading:
- The Brothers Karamazov (not the lightest read, but manageable and i like it so far - pg 170)
- The Anatomy of Story by John Truby (excellent workbook style book on writing)
- Joan Didion - Slouching Toward Bethlehem (highly reccommended!)
- Why Men Love Bitches (YES lol @ me but it's cringe-worthy accurate)
Recent Favorites:
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (ANYONE will love this book, but especially travelers and those that love India)
- Jesus Son by Denis Johnson (po-mo shorts about life on the american fringe that read like poetry)
- Diary of Anais Nin vol. 1
- Paint It Black by Janet Fitch (fun, easy, girly read with an edge;but still a great novel that gets you lost in the 80s LA underground)
I love PKD as well! Probably my favorites are A Scanner Darkly and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
VALIS is free online, though not my favorite it gives insight into his mindframe at the end of his life and tries to tie together the underlying crackpot theories that influenced his work. PKD's life is a story in itself, dude was a prophet.
http://www.octobot.net/library/Dick,...0-%20Valis.pdf
This is an interview he gave about eternal return, channeling, and a strange thing that happened to him upon completing Flow My Tears:
http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
When he was trying to break commercially he wrote some novels that weren't so out there. Only one ever got published and it's actually quite comical and entertaining. The title is Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Sorry for the tanget, I'm a big PKD fan and I love this thread already!
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