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The story didn't really grip me, in it's basic core, but PKDs world building, ideas and theories are poignant and evocative. Truly a novel to make you think. There is a lot to say about capitalism here, society's views on technology and how exploitative companies can become.

Finishing ‘Ubik‘ now means I‘m 6 Dicks deep in my Phillip K Dick frenzy— a whole Dick-fest. I cannot recommend this one enough. It was, like all Dicks, infectious, mind-bending, and scarily resemblant of where we are now and where we are headed. Will be taking a Dick detour to read ‘Project Hail Mary‘ (recommended by a friend months ago) before the journey for more Dick continues. Until then, read ‘Ubik‘! (Safe when taken as directed).

10/150 Reading PKD is like taking a hallucinogenic drug straight to the brain, everything is a little off kilter, most of it makes little sense, but it's still enjoyable. The plot is too convoluted to explain, it's the authors usual mindf**kery about reality, life, the afterlife and what makes us human.
4⭐⭐⭐⭐
4th book finished for #JoyousJanuary @Andrew65

Friends, this is clean-up time and we're discounting all our silent, electric Ubiks by this much money.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Another rollercoaster ride through morals and ethics in twisting reality that stirs the imagination few can reach. The concepts and ideas that Dick constructs are consistently amazing. Has he foreseen the coming of the microtransaction here?

Just finished this whilst my daughter is in her dance class.

Enjoyed it immensely!

📚Ubik/Under the Skin/Underground Railroad/Unnecessary Woman
🖋 Updike
🎬 Usual Suspects/Under the Skin (completely different from the Faber book, but also amazing)
🎸U2
🎶 Untitled # 4 (Sigur Rós) Under the Table (Fiona Apple)
Catching up on #manicmonday #letteru @joscho

#IfYouLikeThis

I love #Inception (though it took several viewings to really understand it 😂) and I‘ve never read this book, but it sounds similar.

Day 27 - #IfYouLiked #Inception

#YoullLikeThisBook #Ubik

I read that Ubik was a good place to start for reading anything by PKD. It took a little while for me to get into it, as it was quite strange. But once I did, it seemed to flow quite smoothly and I was able to keep up with the story. Looking forward to reading many more of his titles, I've heard it only gets stranger in the world of PKD.

PKD at his best. Refreshingly weird from start to end in a could-have-been-future where even doors ask for money before they open.

What is Ubik? That is the question in this very strange book. Oh and also what is Half Life and how is it different from death, how do you control people with psychic powers, what happened on Mars and why is reality deteriorating and also what is reality. Yes is very Phillip K Dick and I ended it as confused in as many ways as I was at the start of it. In some ways it reminded me of O'Brien‘s Third Policeman in others it is its own strange beast

#U #30JuneBooks @howjessreads

#comingsoon #scifi #cyberpunk

My kids wanted me to open my #SantaThing envelopes.

I'll find out who my secret Santa was tomorrow morning, for now let me just say: Thank you! Two books from my wishlist and this third, the tagged book, is a very very interesting surprise!

Ubik. Safe when taken as directed.
Lucy and I loved this book! So strange my brain hurt! But so intriguing and full of imagination! Truly the science fiction treat of 1969 😂 I love that the future was 1992 the year I was born. I am excited to read more form Philip K Dick. I found this great copy in the free bin at second and Charles. The cover is fantastic!

This book is full of great twisting surprises. One of my new favorites by PKD. A bit of suspense, a bit of mystery, a weird ride that has some great head games of what's real and what it means to be alive.
Interesting concepts, introspective characters, well worth it. 8.5/10

I was hoping to get back into this for #LitsyAtoZ, but I had to rethink sci fi in 2 different realms at once. Usually I keep my genes separate when I'm being a #bookwhore, but this may be too much sci fi at once. I'll wait until I'm done with #TheLunarChronicles to start this. How about that cover, though?? Hubba hubba! (Am I allowed to say that? 😳)

Ugh 😑 - this may be a case of me choosing the wrong medium. I may have to go back and read this, not just listen to it.
I was enjoying the narration. I felt like there was more humor in it than I would have injected myself. But at some point around 30% in, I lost that. The next 10% then became painful. And I have 300 other books to read/listen to. So I‘m moving on, with a note to find time to read at least the first couple chapters someday.

Starting this one as I clean a little.

I chose my weirdest book cover for the #2kgiveaway
Have yet to read this book! I found on a freebie pile at 2nd and Charles. But the cover is what drew me to it!
Congrats of 2k wife you‘re the best!

Goodwill finds.❤📚

Started this new “journey” just this morning (any book is a unique journey) and I‘m already so SO into it

I have no idea what the crap I just read, but man, was it ever trippy! I have a feeling I will be thinking about this book for quite some time. Luckily,I can sit and stare at our tree while I digest this. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Guys, I am so confused reading this book! It is trippy and weird. It feels like a cross between Doctor Who and Twilight Zone. #mindblown

I love when I‘m reading one book and my audio book makes an appearance! #isitlikeahobbit

This is one weird book.

My first Philip K. Dick and hopefully not my last. This was really exciting but not really satisfying. Is there an Ubik part 2 because I want to read more about Joe Chip! It was funny, action packed and philosophical. I love it!

New book time.
This came as blind date with a book. So hey, lets hope it‘s a good book date

Dang. Love this book cover and the dolman shirt style. Don't love that they decided to print light grey onto heather grey. 🤔 @outofprint if I ask real nice, would you offer this in black or burgundy or navy? Or even charcoal? Pretty please. 😇

There is a lot of Weird Shit in this book...even by PKD's standard! I did like it, though. It felt like a complete story whereas, e.g., The Man In The High Castle, was all very loosely and unsatisifyingly connected (albeit in a fascinating world). Most other PKD books I've read have strangely flat, anti-climactic endings...but this did pretty much the opposite by literally the last two pages pulling out a "LOL, SWERVE!". I had to laugh out loud.

Bailed. I really WANTED to love this book but three chapters in I just couldn't stand it anymore!! On paper I should totally love this book...maybe it was just the narration, perhaps I should try the physical version.

So I went to book group this afternoon- The Wine and Ugg Boots book group - with three books. Two to return and one to loan. But came home with four books. Not helpful to my TBR situation. Thanks @Victoria_Clyne. 😝

So...hello, Litsy people! 👋🏼I am new to this. I hope to find new books to read, as reading is a passion! Here is what I am reading currently.

#SpyNovels
This amazing novel involves psychic spies as a key plotline.

A plot that is near to mental madness. The struggle for life, the meaning of existence are the real themes of this book. The science-fiction genre is only the shortest long way for the transmission of this research of meaning. To read!

Quite the mind bender. Inception well before Inception. A dark and prescient eye to the future of privatization and corporate power. Part who-dun-it, part where-am-I. Un-film able. Basically everything you'd expect from one of the true masters of science fiction.

I really enjoyed the narrator on the audiobook, and thought it was fun to read a futuristic book about a time that is no ikon get the future.

Both the book and the kitty make folding laundry more enjoyable! 😻

One of the best sci-fi novels I have ever read. At times both chilling and darkly funny. Certainly my favorite Of Philip K Dicks work.

No one can beat PKD for inventive storylines involving alternate / possible realities. Haven't read the whole library of his stuff, but this is my favorite so far.