So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Set Harth]

I watched the A Scanner Darkly movie with Johnny Depp, RDJ, Winona Ryder, and Woody Harrleson a while it, it was good.

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Saw it in the theater which was no small feat as it only played in one(!) theater in my entire metropolitan area. Discovered unfortunately a few years ago that my DVD was broken but I got the blu-ray as a gift.

Kinda weird to not even mention Keanu...

Johnny Depp is not in the movie. Also, Rory Cochrane could have gotten a mention.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It's an interesting film. It didn't really make me want to read the book though.

Opinions differ, but Scanner Darkly is not one of my favorite PKD novels.

A good one to start with might be Time Out of Joint.

If you liked Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Martian Time-Slip might be worth checking out; MTS reads like what Bradbury's Mars might've become had the colonists not gone back to Earth and had Earth not nuked itself into oblivion.

I will always recommend The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, but it's not science-fiction. Confessions of a Crap Artist is an interesting portrait of the destruction of a post-war California family seen through the eyes of an autististic man.

The Man in the High Castle is very good -- not sure it was Hugo Award-worthy, but very good. And very unlike the television series.