goldendoodle

Valis by PKD and Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier.

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OccultHawk

Let us know what you end up thinking of Valis

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adidasss

I remember VALIS as one of his most impressive works (along with Ubik), although I don't remember much about it except that it's semi-autobiographical in a surprisingly sober self-critical way for someone who had a "religious experience".

I am finally reading (and finishing) Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie, which is my first novel by Rushdie. I am very impressed, although it is quite a large undertaking (650 pages).

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goldendoodle

I'm crazy about anything that has vaguely gnostic undercurrents, so I knew I'd like Valis. (I originally started reading it several months ago after finishing The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, which I was obsessed with, since I too was fully unhinged at the time + eyeballs-deep in my gnosticism phase)

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OccultHawk

That’s right up there with the best of the best.

Golden, your impression of VALIS is so funny and so you and so right on.

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Marie Monday

I'm reading something pretty unusual right now: my grandfather just finished writing a book on the history of my family. It's fascinating, very funny, and sometimes very confronting.

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Frownland

That's pretty cool.

I recently got a copy of Derek Bailey's Musical Improvisation. Starts off with explorations of improvisation within genres and interviews from a 1974 radio series that he did on the same subject (does anyone know if this is available anywhere?). Pretty sure that it goes into other stuff too later on but I'm not there yet.

Viram Jasani is the artist that he interviews for the Indian music section.

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adidasss

I came at it after reading Crumb's The religious experience of P.K.Dick, which was probably a very light version of the events, but definitely helped add an additional layer to reading VALIS, I'm not sure if I would have been so impressed if I hadn't know it was semi-autobiographical.

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rostasi

again...



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grindy

Finished reading "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett.
Great book.

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