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Tessa Dick
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:17:50 +0000
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thanx, royters
-- if you know literature, then you will find the same flat characters in Hemingway&;s work, yet he is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century
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thanx, royters
&; if you know literature, then you will find the same flat characters in Hemingway&;s work, yet he is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century
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royters
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:45:38 +0000
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Dick&;s vision of the future is extremely relevant today. Read The Penultimate Truth. His themes of over-population, escapism, isolation, government paranoia -- they all continue to reverberate in society.
It&;s also somewhat odd to criticize the characters he created w/o recognizing that his stories were about the plot and the world creation. His characters were engines for the plot. That&;s not a weakness, it&;s a different style. You may not like it that much, but it&;s no reason to knock him down a few pegs.
Dick&;s vision of the future is extremely relevant today. Read The Penultimate Truth. His themes of over-population, escapism, isolation, government paranoia &; they all continue to reverberate in society.
It&;s also somewhat odd to criticize the characters he created w/o recognizing that his stories were about the plot and the world creation. His characters were engines for the plot. That&;s not a weakness, it&;s a different style. You may not like it that much, but it&;s no reason to knock him down a few pegs.
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name
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:40:52 +0000
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Good day!,
Good day!,
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Tessa Dick
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:38:34 +0000
http://encinoman.wordpress.com/?p=231-1253
Actually, Phil&;s true contemporaries were Robert Silverberg and Theodore Sturgeon.
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Actually, Phil&;s true contemporaries were Robert Silverberg and Theodore Sturgeon.
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