Those are pretty much the only authors I can say I would read anything by. I just re-read "at the mountains of maddness" last week, and the way it unfolds blows my mind to this day... the cosmic dread is perfectly counterpointed by the utter "plain-ness", if you will, of the details he (lovecraft, natch) presents to tell the tale with.
The whole cthulu mythos really fr4eaks me out...
"The call of cthulu", "whisperer in darkness", and "the shadow out of time" are pretty much my biggest favourites of his work... anyone else??? my next post will concern Dyck and his nutty paranoia, perhaps with a mention of the "filmifications" of his work...
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LOL love the sig man.... good to see a username that I know isn't a re-tread 
Just bought the book "Bloodcurdling tales of Horror and the Macabre" by Lovecraft- fuck man, the older I get, the better that guys writing gets- I have actually taken to reading it aloud cos the shit is so lyrical it's fucking SICK
UBIK is a pretty good read, pretty much classic PKD except for the fact that it's kinda funny which he usually doesn't do
If you can find it "A Scanner Darkly" is the real shit man, that story is almost perfect if you like institutionalized paranoia and people going all weird in fun ways, plus the Estate of PKD is working with his son (IIRC that is) on an "as close to actually approved as you can get since he's now gone RIP" version of that film, to sort of make up for Blade Runner- seeing as it's a future tale written in the 60's and dated as happening in 1974 it's more "Fi" and less "Sci" so it should be good
Still looking forward to them Cthulu figures, too, seen some more finished pics and they look really slick
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Just bought the book "Bloodcurdling tales of Horror and the Macabre" by Lovecraft- fuck man, the older I get, the better that guys writing gets- I have actually taken to reading it aloud cos the shit is so lyrical it's fucking SICK
UBIK is a pretty good read, pretty much classic PKD except for the fact that it's kinda funny which he usually doesn't do
If you can find it "A Scanner Darkly" is the real shit man, that story is almost perfect if you like institutionalized paranoia and people going all weird in fun ways, plus the Estate of PKD is working with his son (IIRC that is) on an "as close to actually approved as you can get since he's now gone RIP" version of that film, to sort of make up for Blade Runner- seeing as it's a future tale written in the 60's and dated as happening in 1974 it's more "Fi" and less "Sci" so it should be good
Still looking forward to them Cthulu figures, too, seen some more finished pics and they look really slick
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That's the one and only Lovecraft book I have. I bought it because it had Innsmouth and Cthulhu in it, the two stories I had at the tops of my Lovecraft reading. I cannot tell you how much The Shadow Over Innsmouth had me gripped. Few stories give me that urge to read on, and that one had me throughout its narrative. Still my favorite of all the Lovecraft I have read. Thinking back on it now, I really want to go back and revisit that one.
I heard Ubik has some fun elements to it. Should be a good read and should lead me to wanting to explore more of his stuff. Reading the more literary science fiction has got me hungry to check out more of the genre. Would you believe I'm reading Ubik for a college class? That class has been nothing but an eye opener into the great world of science fiction books out there. Even picked up a new favorite author from reading a book called The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger! Tiger!) which is like The Count of Monte Cristo set in space.
I will look into more of Dick later, probably mid-June once I get past this round of classes. Hopefully this dreadful looking, yet still compelling, book called The Atrocity Exhibition does not kill my drive for more reading.
I heard Ubik has some fun elements to it. Should be a good read and should lead me to wanting to explore more of his stuff. Reading the more literary science fiction has got me hungry to check out more of the genre. Would you believe I'm reading Ubik for a college class? That class has been nothing but an eye opener into the great world of science fiction books out there. Even picked up a new favorite author from reading a book called The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger! Tiger!) which is like The Count of Monte Cristo set in space.
I will look into more of Dick later, probably mid-June once I get past this round of classes. Hopefully this dreadful looking, yet still compelling, book called The Atrocity Exhibition does not kill my drive for more reading.
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LOL I couldn't get enough Dick when I first discovered him [beard]
Another couple of the "funny" ones include 'clans of the alphane moon' (one of his earlier works, more traditional sci-fi but still really good, about some loser who moves to MARS), 'The Galactic Pot-Healer' (which is pretty much a really screwball comedy about superficiality and 'finding oneself' lots of belly laughs) and to some extent "The MArtian Time-Slip" which deals with someone attempting to use mystic time-travel to enhance their real-estate speculating abilities, among other things- Dick deals real well with time-travel, likely the best account I have ever read
I'm sure you'll love "scanner darkly" it is a real mind-fuck sort of thing
And one piece of advice- do not attempt to read any of the valis books until you are really well acquainted with his writings, and when you do, read them in sequence (titles are "the divine invasion" "transmigration of timothy archer" "Valis" and "radio free albemuth" in that order IIRC)
Oh and if you just want a plain fucked up book, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is really messed..... it's about people who got duped into going to live on Mars (dick loves that theme) and it sucks SO HARD there that everyone is addicted to government supplied psychadelic drugs in order to have at least one thing that isn't pure shit in their lives, which all goes weird when a guy returns from another dimension with an even better drug that the government cannot patent due to it's extradimensional nature, classic Dick tale
We'll have to hook up on AIM or something someday and discuss this in "real time" man, again glad you're digging it
Another couple of the "funny" ones include 'clans of the alphane moon' (one of his earlier works, more traditional sci-fi but still really good, about some loser who moves to MARS), 'The Galactic Pot-Healer' (which is pretty much a really screwball comedy about superficiality and 'finding oneself' lots of belly laughs) and to some extent "The MArtian Time-Slip" which deals with someone attempting to use mystic time-travel to enhance their real-estate speculating abilities, among other things- Dick deals real well with time-travel, likely the best account I have ever read
I'm sure you'll love "scanner darkly" it is a real mind-fuck sort of thing
And one piece of advice- do not attempt to read any of the valis books until you are really well acquainted with his writings, and when you do, read them in sequence (titles are "the divine invasion" "transmigration of timothy archer" "Valis" and "radio free albemuth" in that order IIRC)
Oh and if you just want a plain fucked up book, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is really messed..... it's about people who got duped into going to live on Mars (dick loves that theme) and it sucks SO HARD there that everyone is addicted to government supplied psychadelic drugs in order to have at least one thing that isn't pure shit in their lives, which all goes weird when a guy returns from another dimension with an even better drug that the government cannot patent due to it's extradimensional nature, classic Dick tale
We'll have to hook up on AIM or something someday and discuss this in "real time" man, again glad you're digging it
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That Palmer Eldritch one sounds like a good read.
I am not sure when I will be getting to A Scanner Darkly. I was hoping the libraries would carry a wider selection of Dick's work, but sadly that is not the case. Means I will probably have to resort to some Amazoning to get Scanner.
Looking at the library selection I see Lies, Inc., The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, The Cosmic Puppets, The Crack in Space, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (this is most likely the one I will read next), and The Eye of the Sibyl. Not the best selection of Dick, but it's free and gives me something to work with.
Fuck, I was hoping they would have The Man in the High Castle. That one sounded like an interesting read.
Thanks for the recommendations. I just went through about half of a book called The Atrocity Exhibition (a JG Ballard work, not sure if you know him or not) and shit...that book has got me fucked in the mind and every orifice of my body, too. The book made me laugh (the race and JFK stuff...funny as hell) and it also frustrated me to the point where I have to put it down and read it in small doses. Can't wait to get back to something more linear and take a break from the experimental fiction. I had enough of that with House of Leaves.
I am not sure when I will be getting to A Scanner Darkly. I was hoping the libraries would carry a wider selection of Dick's work, but sadly that is not the case. Means I will probably have to resort to some Amazoning to get Scanner.
Looking at the library selection I see Lies, Inc., The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, The Cosmic Puppets, The Crack in Space, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (this is most likely the one I will read next), and The Eye of the Sibyl. Not the best selection of Dick, but it's free and gives me something to work with.
Fuck, I was hoping they would have The Man in the High Castle. That one sounded like an interesting read.
Thanks for the recommendations. I just went through about half of a book called The Atrocity Exhibition (a JG Ballard work, not sure if you know him or not) and shit...that book has got me fucked in the mind and every orifice of my body, too. The book made me laugh (the race and JFK stuff...funny as hell) and it also frustrated me to the point where I have to put it down and read it in small doses. Can't wait to get back to something more linear and take a break from the experimental fiction. I had enough of that with House of Leaves.