French language
Published June 5, 2013 by J'ai lu.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts and explores the ambiguous slippage between reality and unreality. It is one of Dick's first works to explore religious themes. The novel takes place in a future 2016 where humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. To cope with the difficult life away from Earth, colonists rely on the illegal hallucinogen Can-D, secretly distributed by corporate head Leo Bulero. New tensions arise with the rumor that merchant explorer Palmer Eldritch has returned from an expedition in possession of a new alien hallucinogen to compete with Can-D.
It’s a book and all but I just can’t get around how women are portrayed. They pretty much don’t do anything, and every scene that has a woman starts by describing how big her boobs are. Every time.
Sure, this might be a description of how the characters think, but why would literally ALL characters be incredibly sexist pigs? At that point the raw unpleasantness of the characters start to spoil the rest of the book.
Just may be my favorite PKD book.
Wow. This book became mind boggling for me. What is reality, ultimately? Who can define it? Do dreams and fantasy (and drug taking) alter reality? (Not just your reality, but the reality that stitches together the fabric of the universe?) What is real? Are you? Is God? I'll definitely have to reread this one. It became so convoluted and trippy at the end that I lost the fraying strand that I was following. Wow.
Great ideas, but as usual for PKD, the writing can't support the grandiosity of his vision.
