A Scanner Darkly
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005LVR6NC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. --David Langford, . Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but wh
Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses. In this award-winning novel, friends can become enemies, good trips can turn terrifying, and cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. “Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream.”—Roberto Bolaño Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Dick is at turns caustically funny and somberly contemplative, fashioning a novel that is as unnerving as it is enthralling.. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person
Too many mundane conversations. I LOVED Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and this booked was highly rated among PKD fans. I liked the beginning regarding the different views of the dopers and the feds in scramble suits but after the first third of the book, I was waiting for it "to get good". Unfortunately it never did. It felt like endless conversations between characters. It really did seem like someone transcribed dialogue betw. Larry R. Bergstrom said memorium to addicts. interesting story but the last third was confusing and the whole story is quite depressing. Dick wrote this after going through chemical dependency treatment. I don't think he understood what treatment is about.. J.E. McMasters said Five Stars. Excellent condition!