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Originally Posted by replica145
He's like Stephen King. He can blow your mind or make your eyes roll right out of your head. Sometimes in the same book.
Try Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and the Valis Trilogy.
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By now Three Stigmata should be recognized as literature. Dick's work can be divided into discrete categories, the books he wrote so he could eat, and the books he wrote to explore his cosmology. The former category includes things like Vulcan's Hammer and the Simulacrum, but even those "inferior" works contain the germ of his overriding themes - in fact some of those books are the playgrounds in which he begins to explore his most interesting themes.
I don't think you should completely write off his works until you've read _A Scanner Darkly_, _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_, _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, _UBIK_, and _The Man In The High Castle_.