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Valis
by: Philip K. Dick
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679734468
ISBN: 0679734465
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Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: July 02, 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: July 02, 1991
Studio: Vintage
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- ISBN13: 9780679734468
- Condition: New
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Amazon.com Review:
The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Known as science fiction only for lack of a better category, "Valis" takes place in our world and may even be semi-autobiographical.
The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity.
Product Description:
VALIS, the disorienting and eeerily funny centerpiece of Dick's final trilogy, is part science fiction, part theological detective story, in which God is both missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Intersting ideas, just connected poorlyOk, so, Im not familiar with Philip K. Dick outside of seeing, A Scanner Darkly. I picked this book because it was featured on Lost, and I thought, well, why not?
So I read it.
Its a short book, but for some reason it took me three weeks to plow through it. I was fairly open to the names(Horselover Fat...?)and the concept. I liked some of the ideas and characters which contrasted each other. I loved the beginning, and the entire bit about how when one tries to save someone, ... Read More
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- Not as good as you might thinkI have read many books like this and it really isn't that good. Dick tries to hard to be funny and metaphysical at the same time. Probably a good book if you're a college student or just getting into examining your "self" and the universe, but believ me there are better books. His writing is an easy read though.
Rating:
- Book One of the TrilogyValis is addictive but strangely alienating to read. PDK's alter ego Horselover Fat spends most of his time in endless documentation of sci-fi/religious analysis, and the plot is very, very difficult to summarize. If you like PDK, you may not necessarily like this. But, as I said, I couldn't put it down.
Rating:
- Basically the greatest book ever writtenCall me a fool, that's fine. I love Philip K Dick's entire catalogue. But Valis is my absolute favorite (with Radio Free Ablemuth a close 2nd) perhaps it's because of my personal life when I read it the first time. I had been reading Dick for years and somehow never read Valis until college. I can honestly say that this was one of the few books that ever changed my life, I've read dozens of times. If you don't get that's your problem!
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- DIREI bought this book because I had heard that the author was one of the best sci-fi writers ever. I was hugely disappointed and managed to read no further than page 47. This book is nothing but pseudo-philosophical ramblings with very little in the way of plot. It's UTTER RUBBISH.
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