Time Out Of Joint

"In a civil war… every side is wrong. It‘s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.” ?

RamsFan1963 PKD was a very insightful man 11mo

Bookwomble @RamsFan1963 Yes! He's one of my favourite authors. According to Library Thing, I only have more books in my collection by Edgar Rice Burroughs than PKD, although that's due to a lot of duplicate books by ERB - I love a cover variant! 11mo

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Bookwomble

Time Out Of Joint | Philip K. Dick

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The unreality of everyday life, and glimpses of an alternate or underlying order of being, is a common PKD theme, explored here in a setting contemporary with its writing (1958), but with glimpses that something is wrong, or out of joint.
The sci-fi element is less interesting than the phenomenological musings, but this was a time PKD's attempts to break into the mainstream was being roundly rebuffed, so I guess dressing the story in genre ⬇️

Bookwomble ... clothes helped it's publication.
The cover artist on my copy is sci-fi stalwart Chris Moore, and I love that the photo of main character Ragle Gumm on the mocked-up cover of Time Magazine is Chris himself. A witty nod to the blending of reality and unreality of the novel. 4⭐ 11mo

The_Book_Ninja Did all those drugs make him paranoid?🤔 11mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja He experienced periodic psychosis throughout his life, which his drug use certainly wouldn't have helped 😕 11mo

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The_Book_Ninja And maybe his ideas wouldn‘t have been so wild🤷🏻 11mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Perhaps, or perhaps not living in distress would have helped him develop different ideas and made his life less self-destructive 🤷🏻 It's impossible to know, I guess. I'm not convinced by the idea that genius needs to be tortured, though it would naturally shape the form it takes. 11mo

The_Book_Ninja Sounds like his ideas, drugs and psychosis are chicken and egg in regards to what fuelled his imagination. Have you read Valis? Sounds like it‘s either massively entertaining or too out-there for some. 11mo

vivastory This is def one of the best SF Masterworks covers I've seen 11mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja I have read, and enjoyed VALIS, which is pretty much autobiography. I love it, but I'm a Dick-Head, so... 😄 (edited) 11mo

Bookwomble @vivastory I love Moore's artwork, though this isn't typical of it (at least for his SF book covers). It's very fitting for the novel though, and I did a double take when I looked closely at the image of Gumm! 11mo

vivastory There's nothing quite like 60s & 70s sci fi cover art 11mo

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TheSpineView

Time Out Of Joint | Philip K. Dick

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Movie: The Truman Show

This was a tricky one. This has a similar feel to the movie but the plot is some different.

Klou This book sounds awesome!! Great choice! Very fitting. I love this movie so much and you've picked the perfect book! Similar but different enough to keep things interesting. 14mo

TheSpineView @Klou 👍🤩😍 14mo

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Emilymdxn

Time Out Of Joint | Philip K. Dick

so-so

I did enjoy this and thought the concept and ending were clever, tho the characterisation didn‘t honestly get me super excited. Perhaps it resonated less if you‘re not American? Maybe it just wasn‘t very me tbh. I would absolutely read more Philip K Dick and this one wasn‘t bad, just not my fave.

Caz1 What‘s your favourite ? I‘m new to his work 3y

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