fpw Wrote:Sounds like Phil Dick's life at the time. Psychedelics up the wazoo and slowly losing his mind.Yeah, and eventually what killed him. He messed his body up bigtime. He has an afterword at the end of the book that is very touching and thought-provoking about drug use and abuse and all the friends he lost.
law dawg Wrote:Just remember that the main character is slowly becoming shizophrenic. He is becoming two people. One of the persons is a undercover cop. The other person is a junkie, and eventually he starts investigating himself.
Hey...
That sounds alot like Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
It's a must read if you like PKD, Not a spoiler, but ....The kangaroo
Maggers Wrote:Thanks, Law Dawg!
The idea of A Scanner Darkly reminded me of a Kurt Russell/Mel Gibson film:Tequila Sunrise
I don't know if you ever saw Tequila Sunrise but the premise of that film had Raul Julia's Police Chief looking for himself- as he was the drug dealer that
Mel Gibson's character was looking for !!!
And wasn't Ed Norton's character the dark side of Pitt's in Fight CLub?
SPOILER ALERT FOR "FIGHT CLUB"
Yes, Ed Norton and Brad Pitt share a brain in "Fight Club." And I curse Rosie O'Donnell to heck and back for brazenly giving away the ending to that movie on her show back when. I didn't care much for her, and after that, she zoomed to the top of my list of genuine rat finks. She felt it was her duty to give away surprise endings to films and books. What a .... ooohhh, words fail me, or at least words that I can print here. Spoiling a movie is loathesome in my book, especially if it's done on purpose and with malice aforethought and on network television.
Annice Burdeos Wrote:...And wasn't Ed Norton's character the dark side of Pitt's in Fight CLub?
Yes, Ed Norton and Brad Pitt share a brain in "Fight Club." And I curse Rosie O'Donnell to heck and back for brazenly giving away the ending to that movie on her show back when. I didn't care much for her, and after that, she zoomed to the top of my list of genuine rat finks. She felt it was her duty to give away surprise endings to films and books. What a .... ooohhh, words fail me, or at least words that I can print here. Spoiling a movie is loathesome in my book, especially if it's done on purpose and with malice aforethought and on network television.
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Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
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Annice Burdeos Wrote:And wasn't Ed Norton's character the dark side of Pitt's in Fight CLub?Vice versa, actually. Pitt was the "dark side."
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Keith the Elder Wrote:Hey...Never read it, but will look into it. Always looking for a good read. Just finished ARMOR by Steakman (I think ?) and the Dark Elf series by Salvatore.
That sounds alot like Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
It's a must read if you like PKD, Not a spoiler, but ....The kangaroo
Looking for my next great read....
At last! I saw this movie in a theatre and it was EXCELLENT! 
What a terrific animation! And very unique. It's not like Miyazaki's animations or Disney animations, but I prefer this digital paint. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Rory Cochrane(in CSI:Miami)....their animation characters were well made! Hallucination scenes were creepy, but for some reason, at the same time those hallucinations were funny and made me laugh. But I don't wanna experience it! :eek:
Lesson from this movie: DON'T TAKE THE ILLEGAL DRUGS! Drugs crash your brain and make you puke.
What a terrific animation! And very unique. It's not like Miyazaki's animations or Disney animations, but I prefer this digital paint. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Rory Cochrane(in CSI:Miami)....their animation characters were well made! Hallucination scenes were creepy, but for some reason, at the same time those hallucinations were funny and made me laugh. But I don't wanna experience it! :eek:
Lesson from this movie: DON'T TAKE THE ILLEGAL DRUGS! Drugs crash your brain and make you puke.
fpw Wrote:Sounds like Phil Dick's life at the time. Psychedelics up the wazoo and slowly losing his mind.
What is wazoo? :confused:
Annice Burdeos Wrote:The idea of A Scanner Darkly reminded me of a Kurt Russell/Mel Gibson film:Tequila Sunrise
I don't know if you ever saw Tequila Sunrise but the premise of that film had Raul Julia's Police Chief looking for himself- as he was the drug dealer that
Mel Gibson's character was looking for !!!
Yeah, I saw Twquila Sunrise, and that's right! But apparently that's not original story by P. K. Dick.
