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>>25113692
True but it's a great book. It's trippy for people who HAVEN'T read PKD before, I reckon.

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>>25113873
That cover fucking sucks, thoughbeit.

YOU'RE DEAD. I'M ALIVE.

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>>25114026
Much appreciated realness.

It's pretty damn trippy, but not as trippy as The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Its real value lies in its themes.

My favourite PKD novel.

Ubik, along with The Man in the High Castle, are PKD's most overrated books.
It's a shame that two of his weakest novels are the most popular.

The Man in the High Castle was just PKD shilling the I Ching.

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>>25118102
It's just a coincidence that it's his only book to win an award!!!

>>25113692
THE trippy pkd work is VALIS. nothing in his work comes even close to this one.

>>25118109
go back polack

>>25118212
No.

>>25118212
Stayed quiet, fat dicklet.

>>25118209
VALIS was deeply unsettling.

I don't get why people here are saying Ubik is not trippy or good or like it's entry level PKD. It seems like a reddit attitude where you pretend you're deeper into something than others. And you'll notice this attitude in discussions about every PKD novel ever, with maybe the exception of VALIS which is so weird and genre bending it obviously sticks out.
At least discuss why you prefer other novels than Ubik, or point out what it does effectively and ineffectively, don't just tell is you like other things.

>>25113692
>Author of Blade Runner
Um.. I'm pretty sure that was Burroughs

>>25119518
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" included obsessions of Thanatos and Eros in machines and organics, which is way trippier or weirder than the world of Ubik. Even having a character wanting to fuck a synth is weird but it's obviously also a comment on the sexual revolution at the time, where desiring machines collide with life itself. It was published during 1968, the height of the counterculture and spontaneous uprisings in the west, and it bleeds into the universe of PKD's writings because even synths begin to rebel against the order of things.

>>25113692
its mid and campy. scanner mogs it

Is there a futurama episode based on this or did I imagine it

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>>25113692
It's the ending that's trippy, not the beginning.

>>25120983
cringe pic bro

>>25120963
The bee one

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I thought it was this picture for a sec

>>25120983
I thought the part at the beginning when the book was explaining half life while Runciter was visiting his dead wife Ella was pretty good. That's pretty much the only time in the book, short of the end, where it gets spiritual. I wish PKD had expanded more on the afterlife part of half life, because Runciter mentions at one point that he had Ella read the Tibetan Book of the Dead before she died of cancer and how the smoky red light was bad and signified a bad reincarnation. But then again most of the book consists of the characters being in half life, doesn't it?