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To: pjd; All
Very cool. I like PKD myself BUT I have to say that his Valis Trilogy was disturbing to me.

It seems to me that this trilogy was simply madness put to paper and I found it interesting but when the Timothy Archer story came in, I was baffled.

Hell, I read Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco and wasn't nearly as confused.

Just a small gripe about a great writer.

On a side note, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died today. I know he is a left-winger but I enjoyed his writing.

Arioch7

39 posted on 04/12/2007 6:40:09 PM PDT by Arioch7
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To: Arioch7
I like PKD myself BUT I have to say that his Valis Trilogy was disturbing to me.

I have to agree with you there, except for the first of the series The Divine Invasion which I enjoyed quite a bit. Was hoping the other two would be similar, but they each got increasingly weird.

I thought that Minority Report and Paycheck were pretty good adaptions of the short stories. Except, in Paycheck, they changed the ending quite a bit. However, most of the story was there.

40 posted on 04/12/2007 9:31:51 PM PDT by pjd
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To: Arioch7

I did not know Kurt Vonnegut died.


41 posted on 04/13/2007 10:33:08 AM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=-
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