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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Vintage)| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Philip K. Dick | | Publisher: | Vintage | | Release date: | 29 June, 1993 | | List price: | $12.00 |
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Another cup of identity crisis |
The master of fictional identity crisis demonstrates his form in spades via this rollercoaster of an adventure! As per the usual sci-fi "what-ifs"; What if you woke up only to discover that you no longer existed?
Only 3 stars---leaves some gaping plot holes and questions unresolved in the resolution, or lack of... |
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I had no idea what I was reading |
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a book with a straightforward enough plot to follow. But there is so much muck that Dick throws into the story that, should you let it, it can bog you down. There are many useless details that Philip Dick assaults you with that it almost foreshadows his mental problems towards the end of his life.
The lead character, a popular television personality who wakes up one day to find that he somehow doesn't exist anymore, is supposed to be a central piece to the puzzle in which Dick constructs a paranoid and disturbing society in our future. But it's hard to pinpoint the paranoid components when so much of the book plays like an esoteric rant entirely within the confines of the author's head.
But nowadays, it's hard to realize just how ahead of his time Dick was. It seems to be common knowledge today that every bit of information about every human being in the nation is on record somewhere. When this book was written, the idea was probably considered insane.
But when it comes to flying cars, random checkpoints, top 40 songs with rampant profanity, and three-dimensional stamp collections that feature buffalos, Dick just can't introduce things on the reader's level.
This books goes further to prove my opinion of Dick: the man had superb ideas. The execution, most of the time, is lacking. |
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interesting but painful read |
| I find PKD's ideas fascinating, thought-provoking, "far-out," you-name-it. He was clearly a cutting edge thinker. However, his writing here is so god-aweful, I could not summon the will power to slog through this book. The exposition was so heavy-handed and the dialogue so cheesy I had to stop. When he wrote of a Rolls Royce skyflyer(a rocket of some sort, apparently) that its engine "idled throbbingly," I nearly flung the book (frustratedly?) across the room. I then picked up VALIS. So far, much better. I'm looking for a pun involving "Dick" and "throbbingly" but my kid is crying for dada. Help anyone? |
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