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| Title | : | VALIS (VALIS Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Philip K. Dick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 242 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2004 by Vintage Books (first published February 1981) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Philosophy. Religion. Novels. Science Fiction Fantasy. Fantasy |
Philip K. Dick
Paperback | Pages: 242 pages Rating: 3.93 | 23170 Users | 1491 Reviews
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VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
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| Original Title: | VALIS |
| ISBN: | 0679734465 (ISBN13: 9780679734468) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | VALIS Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Philip K. Dick, Horselover Fat |
| Setting: | Santa Ana, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (1985) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 23170 Users | 1491 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books VALIS (VALIS Trilogy #1)
VALIS stands for vast active living intelligence system. it is also a trigger to my crazy. i am a perfect breeding ground for it: i read a lot of gnostic texts in university, and struggled against tipping points when i read the book within franny and zooey "the way of the pilgrim" and when i saw mike leigh's film, "naked" and it made me think many crazy things, like chernobyl means wormwood, and the disaster was the third trumpet. when i first read VALIS, i embraced it. i could feel it
I know Philip K. Dick is a revered pillar of the science fiction community, but I truly despised this book. Self-indulgent, and packed with religious claptrappery, it was a chore to read. Female characters existed solely as a source of aggravation. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, in chapter 12, the main character/author forces his son to take part in a bizarre communion ritual...lovely. You don't even want to know what happens to the savior/child in chapter 13. If I want to read
VALIS: Reconciling human suffering with divine purposeOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureIts often said that one must suffer for ones art. They must have been referring to Philip K. Dick. He slaved away in relative obscurity and poverty at a typewriter for decades, churning out a prodigious flow of low-paid Ace and Berkeley paperbacks (sometimes fueled by amphetamines), went through five marriages, battled with depression, mental illness and suicide attempts, all culminating in a bizarre
Hailed as a existential masterpiece by some, or panned as a taxing testament of non-stop drivel by others, VALIS is one of Phillip K. Dick's most renowned works, and one that mirrors the author's life experience rather closely. There are many aspects of this book worthy of five stars. Conversely, there are other parts that hover around the one or two star mark. So on average, VALIS is getting three stars; which deserves more explanation.VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) is a
A question we had to learn to deal with during the dope decade was, How do you break the news to someone that his brains are fried? So says the first-person narrator in VALIS, Philip K. Dicks autobiographical novel of spiritual odyssey, a novel where the narrator begins by laying out the major issues he must deal with as he attempts to gain a measure of sanity along with a sense of purpose and the meaning of life: drugs, a desire to help others, the pull of insanity, suicide and death, time and
It's a well known fact that science fiction authors often do their best work when they're straying into quasi-religious territory (think Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, etc.). It's also well known that crazy people make the best conspiracy theorists. So when Philip K. Dick, an extremely crazy, extremely talented sci-fi author writes a book about religion-as-conspiracy, it's a safe bet that some serious head-messing is about to ensue.Someone (I think it was Ursula LeGuin) once remarked that
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