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This was my second Dick (I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep!). I read this one for the #ClassicLSFBC .
I liked how it started, but the second half of the book had too many unreliable narrators and characters so it got kind of confusing for me. Fortunately there were a lot of humorous moments.
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Thank you @RamsFan1963 !

🌧️ Photo taken last Saturday morning. I got to read on the porch while it rained - such a nice fall experience!

(1969) Joe Fernwright is a repairer of pottery in a future world where most pots worth repairing have been repaired already. Joe is recruited by a near-godlike being to join a project that goes to raise a sunken cathedral (with lots of broken pots) on a distant planet. It's a strange, surreal story with themes of transformation and imperfect information. It's fascinating and disorienting, in the way of an alchemical allegory.

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84/100 Not one of my favorites, seems more confusing than even the usual Dick novels. A creature named the Glimmung has gathered together a group of people from various planets, to come to Plowman's Planet to help it raise a sunken cathedral called Heldscalla. Seems a pretty straight forward plot, but it has the usual Dick touches about reality, predestination, metaphysical theories on good and evil. I found the ending vague and confusing, and

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This is one of PKD's more surreal novels, one of his later ones leading towards the VALIS books, so the plot is minimal and ideas & archetypes are prominent.
The story begins in a future pseudo-socialist dystopia: Joe leads a pointless, unfulfilling life, filling his time with vacuous games played remotely with people he's never met. In an episode of mental crisis, Joe is saved from the secret police by a mysterious alien entity, ⬇️

About 50% through. A few quotes so far:

“Each living entity passes through periods of expansion and contraction.”

“There is no abstract way of determining the limits of one's force, one's ability to exert effort; it can only be measured in...a task which brings into view the actual, real limitation... Failure will tell me as much about myself as will success.”

“Failure is valuable...it tells us the limit of ourselves; it maps our boundaries.”

"His father had been a pot-healer before him."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I didn't read last month's #ClassicLSFBC selection due to a library delay, but I am reading this month's (not least because I nominated it, so I really should! ?).
I had an uncertain feeling that I had a "Potteries" bookmark that would be an appropriate match, and I was right - in my uncertainty! I don't have one. So the pictured is not the best example of #BookmarkMatching but it shows elements from the baked clay Minoan Phaistos Disk ⬇️

Here are some books I don‘t have time to read this month. 😂

🪴 Galactic Pot-Healer - for #classicLSFBC
🗽 Language City - for book club, p. 115/378
⚠️ A Psalm for the Wild Built - for Banned Books Week which is in October this year? Rescheduled accordingly
⭐️ Where the Forest Meets the Stars - for the #keywordchallenge
🔥 The Fireman - for IG group read, p. 463/750
🤠 The Gunslinger Born - for #losersclub with @BarkingMadRead

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This is the tale of Joe Fernwright, a professional ceramic repair guy from a future Cleveland who is recruited by the alien Glimmung to travel to Sirius Five to help him raise a cathedral from an underwater ocean. I really enjoyed this one. The novel is short, only 144 pages, so the secondary characters aren't thoroughly fleshed out and the plot isn't complex, but there is so much humor! I laughed more during this book than any other PKD novel.

just finished this one today! another PKD i can lovingly check off my list. 😍 anyone else wonder if #davidlynch took some inspiration from pieces of this for #twinpeaks? 🖤 #philipkdick #myPKDjourney