I haven't read enough of Dick's work. I keep thinking I should, and then I look at the stack of stuff that I already own that I haven't yet got to, and I despair a bit. Easily two thirds of the PKD I have consumed has been through adaptation in movie: I have read Man In The High Castle and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, plus a few of the short stories (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, plus a few others).
Mostly, I didn't read any PKD until after seeing BladeRunner, and it got me interested enough to want to read DADOES, and that plus some essays by Le Guin prompted me to read MITHC, and then I sort of tried to make it a practice to read the short stories after seeing the adaptations (i.e. Total Recall, and Paycheck).
I'm not nearly as taken with PKD as I know some folks are: he's a very good writer, but I don't connect with him as viscerally as I do with other writers, and the way I know some others do.
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Date: 2007-03-07 21:17 (UTC)Mostly, I didn't read any PKD until after seeing BladeRunner, and it got me interested enough to want to read DADOES, and that plus some essays by Le Guin prompted me to read MITHC, and then I sort of tried to make it a practice to read the short stories after seeing the adaptations (i.e. Total Recall, and Paycheck).
I'm not nearly as taken with PKD as I know some folks are: he's a very good writer, but I don't connect with him as viscerally as I do with other writers, and the way I know some others do.