Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

from PhoebeReading

Despite my four star review, this is a very, very uneven book. The first hundred and seventy pages or so are plodding, not particularly exciting, and lack the strong sense of setting that many of Dick's better books (Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) possess. However, the nove...

from xiaomarlo

This review is a lot about Philip K. Dick in general, JSYK. I feel like I didn't get the right introduction to PKD when I was younger. Probably a lot of people don't. You watch Blade Runner and then decide you'd like to read the book, which is totally not like an 80's violent cyberpunk flick at a...

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

This book has the greatest title of all time, and its premise is promising enough, but on the whole I didn't find it compelling reading. The book posits that America's most popular television personality finds that all recognition of him has disappeared overnight. He encounters many armchair onto...

from Pondlife

This is quite a good novel, but not one of PKD's best. The main problem for me was that the ending just seemed too far fetched. Drugs often feature in PKD novels, and parallel dimentions or alternative realities are common SF concepts, but the was these two things were combined just didn't seem ...

from Parthurbook

Anything by Dick carries the enormous weight of his reputation with it - visionary, philosopher, maverick, shaman. Added to which, this novel about identity, policing and perception has the most suggestive of titles. Unfortunately whille there's much to admire in the simplicity of Dick's writing,...