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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, ⬇️
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
#tbr
September's selection for #ClassicLSFBC is Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot Healer. I confess I'm totally unfamiliar with this book, so it should be interesting going in totally blind. Being PKD, I'm sure it's going to be wild and weird. I hope everyone enjoyed August's selection, The Left Hand of Darkness. I think it's one of LeGuin's best novels, and a totally unique world creation.
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pick(1969) It's a story about culture clash and friendship on a world whose natives are sexually neuter for most of their lives, except once a month when they may become either male or female. I remember bouncing off this when I first encountered it in grade school, so was delighted to find it completely absorbing as a thought piece, as a story about cross-cultural friendship, and as an adventure yarn.
This was the August pick for #ClassicLSFBC
pickI had to renew my library card to order The Left Hand of Darkness for this month's #ClassicLSFBC pick, and while I was there randomly picked up this graphic novel, which, to my delight, is a blend of Tintin and Indiana Jones.
Julius Chancer is the young archaeology assistant to London-based antiquarian Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey. It's the 1920s, and Hollywood starlet Lily Lawrence teams up with Julius to help extricate her boozy aristocratic ⬇️
pickClassic SF novel about an ice age planet where the inhabitants are neither male nor female except at certain points in their reproductive cycle when they may become either.
I first read this around 1980 and found it enthralling, loving the exploration of the ideas. I then read it again 20-odd years ago when I found the journey across the icecap tedious. This time it was more enjoyable but it didn't have the wow factor from when I first read it.
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The #ClassicLSFBC selection for August is Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness. I've read this not long ago, so I'll probably pass on the reread, but those who haven't read it are in for a treat.
September's choice is Galactic Pot Healer by Philip K. Dick. It was a tie between this and Software, so I flipped a coin and GPH won. Happy reading everyone!!
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The #ClassicLSFBC selection for August is Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness. I've read this not long ago, so I'll probably pass on the reread, but those who haven't read it are in for a treat. September's choice is Galactic Pot Healer by Philip K. Dick. It was a tie between this and Software, so I flipped a coin and GPH won. Happy reading everyone!!
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What it's actually about (I think) is existential crisis. I assume the alien planet's name alludes to Langland's medieval Christian allegory, "William's Vision of Piers Plowman," and PKD's novel should be read as allegorical, also, the Glimmung ⬇️ 3d
The dives into the sea to contend with dark simulacra to liberate a representation of the moribund spirit, the sunken cathedral of Heldscala, is part of the Hero's Journey into the unconscious realm, like Christ's Harrowing of Hell, where Joe meets a rotting, undead version of himself.
Given PKD's love of classical music, is ⬇️ (edited) 3d
As is typical for a PKD MC, it's not at all certain that Joe ultimately makes the right decisions, nor that he has redeemed his future from his past. 4/5⛪ 3d
I looked on You Tube for a performance of Debussy's piece, and found this incredible Tomita electronic version. I see in the comments that others made the link to this novel before me 😊
https://youtu.be/RjSHXopRpJY?si=nY-0tmt95kVmoZHHq (edited) 3d