The Divine Invasion

I haven't posted in a few days because I've had one of those persistent nagging tension headaches... (the same one that started the day I stopped drinking cofffe.) Anyway it's going away SLOWLY but I've had to limit my computer time because staring at the monitor makes it worse.

So, I just finished reading the Divine Invasion. JEEZ. It was amazing.

Now I've read:

Valis
Radio Free Albemuth
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
A Scanner Darkly
The Divine Invasion

...and I have Ubik sitting on my bookshelf, but I think I need to take a break and read something else before I delve into that one.

Ah man, my brain is cooked right now. I'm going to write more about TDI later tonight, but right now I need to go immerse myself in something mundane, like doing laundry. Hoo boy!

Comments

[iggir]

as dark and depressing as it is, i still think Maze of Death is one of Dick's best books...it's so bizarre!

if you care to get away from P K D for a while, Little Big by John Crowley is a great novel -- it's all about the fairy world.

[aaa]

Yeah, the Divine Invasion is pretty good.. as is the Maze of Death. My favorites, however, are Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, and A Martian Time Slip.

[Nimble]

I realliy liked Dick's attempt to enter the percetual world of autism (Martian Time-Slip).

I enjoyed the Transmigration of Timothy Archer for the juxtaposition of the outside view of a person feeling they are in contact with the divine. It's almost a psychological exercise. He's self analyzing after VALIS.

Repeatedly in VALIS he refers to how impossible it is for people to believe that extraordinary events occur within their mysts. Hell, he even believed that he was subconsciously arranging his entire body of work into mythological allegories. The man was certainly well read.