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Gather Yourselves Together is one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest novels, written when he was just 24 years old. It tells the story of three American workers left behind in China by their employer, biding their time as the Communists advance. As they while away the days, both the young and naïve Carl Fitter and the older and worldly Verne Tildon vie for the affections of Barbara Mahler, a woman who may not be as tough-as-nails as she acts. But Carl’s innocence and Verne’s boorishness could end up driving Barbara away from both.
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Mary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affairs with a middle-aged record shop owner and then a black blues singer, she seems to only succeed in offending the people living in the small-town of Pacific Park, both by her choice of lifestyle and choice of suitors.
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Pointless book
- By Randall on 12-10-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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Puttering About in a Small Land
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Kate Rudd, Luke Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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When Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs. Alt's Los Padres Valley School in the mountains of Southern California, their marriage is already in deep trouble. Then the Lindhals meet Chic and Liz Bonner, whose two sons also board at Mrs. Alt's school. The meeting is a catalyst for a complicated series of emotions and traumas, set against the backdrop of suburban Los Angeles in the early fifties.
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Remarkable performance
- By Phil F. on 04-26-22
By: Philip K. Dick
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Voices from the Street
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life: a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled; something is missing from his life. Hadley is an angry young man - an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking and sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy.
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A very good book
- By H. Metz on 07-31-23
By: Philip K. Dick
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The Broken Bubble
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in San Francisco in 1956, The Broken Bubble traces the ups and downs and ins and outs of four characters who are not quite sure of the lives they’re living. Jim Briskin, local radio DJ, his ex-wife Pat, the young married couple Art and Rachel Emmanual – all are acutely observed and sympathetically portrayed. Briskin is suspended from his job for refusing to read a particularly repellant ad, while Art foolishly gets mixed up in a group of absurd would-be revolutionaries. As they all get entangled and not quite disentangled with each other, it becomes apparent they are seeking only – in typical Dick fashion – to live more or less happily - if not ever after, then at least for a while. Modest as it may seem, it is an ambition very difficult to achieve.
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More than a wast of a credit
- By Randall on 01-10-15
By: Philip K. Dick
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Time Out of Joint
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Ragle Gumm has a unique job: Every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he’s never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".
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Mediocre Mother to Gravity's Rainbow and the Truman Show?
- By Darwin8u on 06-13-15
By: Philip K. Dick
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Counter-Clock World
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye", blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first - but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.
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Our Man in the Graveyard
- By Darwin8u on 01-15-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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Valis
- Valis, Book 1
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
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Life changing
- By Michael on 03-16-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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The World Jones Made
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortuneteller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may be able to free society from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hit man on his tail.
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We can't destroy Jones
- By Darwin8u on 01-15-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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The Cosmic Puppets
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for a vacation, but when he gets there, he is shocked to discover that the town has utterly changed. The stores and houses are all different and he doesn't recognize anybody. The mystery deepens when he checks the town's historical records...and reads that he died nearly twenty years earlier.
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Remember Millgate?
- By Darwin8u on 06-21-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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Vulcan's Hammer
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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After the 20th century’s devastating series of wars, the world’s governments banded together into one globe-spanning entity, committed to peace at all costs. Ensuring that peace is the Vulcan supercomputer, responsible for all major decisions. But some people don’t like being taken out of the equation. And others resent the idea that the Vulcan is taking the place of God. As the world grows ever closer to all-out war, one functionary frantically tries to prevent it. But the Vulcan computer has its own plans....
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us!
- By Darwin8u on 02-08-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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- H. Metz
- 06-19-23
Can’t quite put my finger on it, but…
… it feels like there’s something missing here. A twist. An alien. An unexpected zoom-out to reveal this actually happening on a space station or after a global catastrophe.
Well, it’s a Philip K Dick novel - but not a science fiction. It is really well written. It’s not uninteresting.
But most readers will come into this from the science fiction background - stories or novels. And after reading / listening to this, you realize, those twists, ideas, surprises are really what lifted PKD from a good writer who’d almost certainly remained unknown - to as what he is known for today.
Therefore, this is hard to evaluate. Independent of he stars given, I’d still recommend it to any PKD reader (completists anyway), because it makes it clearer where his genius lay.
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- Phil F.
- 04-21-22
It is better than I expected
It is better than I expected it to be. It is a record of sad unhappy lives and probably an expression of the authors own unhappy relationship problems.
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