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.

 

[bdub76]

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.

This is the third part of trilogy. Do you recommend the whole trilogy? I read across all genres, so I'm good with it not being scifi.

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.

I read half of this book and DNF'd it. Not exactly sure why. I should pick it up again.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

This is the third part of trilogy. Do you recommend the whole trilogy? I read across all genres, so I'm good with it not being scifi.

Transmigration is called part of "the VALIS Trilogy," but it truly has nothing to do with or in common with the other two books. It's a standalone contemporary novel.

VALIS is also good. Weird, but good. It's a fictionalized account of Dick's life in the 1970s. KW Jeter is a minor character.

 

[Denise]

Angel Down is nothing like the other book you mentioned. I found it quite moving. It's a take on the Angel of Mons "miracle" and a very hopeful book in some ways. Please don't judge it out of hand. Also, he's not the first writer to experiment with the long sentence. In this case, it works and makes sense in the context of the book. I do recommend the book.

I also recommend Amity by Nathan Harris and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm thinking of writing a story about the people who refuse to participate in a town's ritual of pelting a random citizen with eggs. I'm going to call it "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelets."

If you do, I'd read it.

And as to the Charlotte Stant piece, well,

 

[bdub76]

I also recommend Amity by Nathan Harris and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

Remarkably Bright Creatures is a good read albeit the ending is a bit predictable. Going to watch the film either today or tomorrow.

I DNF'd Swetness of Water by Nathan Harris earlier this year. It didn't seem to be going anywhere. Not sure how Amity compares.

 

[JD]

Kinda weird to not even mention Keanu...

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.

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

Oops my mistake, I knew it was Keanu Reeves, I don't know why I wrote Johnny Depp. As for Rory Chochrane, I was just going with the biggest names.
I'm not sure if this counts as "reading", but I just started listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of The Magic of Recluce, the first book in L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Saga of Recluce.

 

[Reanok]

TNG Pliable truths by Dayton Ward

 

[Daddy Todd]

just started listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of The Magic of Recluce, the first book in L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Saga of Recluce.

How does the audio pronounce “Recluce”? Is it “wreck-loose”? Or something funkier?

 

[Greg Cox]

Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla. Really.