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PKD Update I
By Matt Margolis | September 27, 2007
I am making my way through the first volume of Philip K. Dick’s collected short stories… I’m nearly halfway through. I’ve read at least one a day during the week… sometimes as much as three a day, depending on how long the stories are. I read them on the train heading to work… the morning commute is ideal for reading short stories.
While I’ve enjoyed all the stories I’ve read so far, a few that stick out as my favorites are The Gun, The Skull, The Defenders, and Piper In The Woods.
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October 5th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Heh, good work. They’re perfect for commutes.
Piper in the Woods is one of my favourites too. They’re all good (though some are… er, less good than others) and some are a bit silly - the Brown Oxford springs to mind; but they’re all thought-provoking in their own way.
What I enjoyed almost as much as the stories was tracing the evolution of PKDs writing throughout the collection. Also, the way you get to see his favourite themes when he comes back to them again and again - often to be explored further in his novels.
This can be a bit of a drawback when reading some of his novels as you start to feel you’ve read it before somewhere else or that you know where he’s going to take something; although he does tend to catch you out!
I envy you Matt - I wish I was reading them all for the first time too… Good luck!