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« Reply #30 on: July 22, 2010, 11:30:31 PM »
How many dicks is that?
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« Reply #31 on: July 23, 2010, 03:10:52 AM »
I like Dick but find he's kind of divisive, you don't want to recommend or lend to someone until you get to know them, let alone espouse his philosophy.

Don't be a Dick to strangers is what I'm saying I guess.

On another note I had a friend who loved his idea of the Exegesis and was psyched that they were publishing some of it, so I guess some of you might as well.
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« Reply #32 on: July 23, 2010, 03:53:41 AM »
I think Dick is overrated.  He's kind of a lousy writer and I give his ideas a B+ at best.  I can think of several SF writers of his generation that I respect more.
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« Reply #33 on: July 23, 2010, 03:57:09 AM »
I'm actually not huge on Dick. Some of my female friends really love Dick (and some guys too) but Dick has never managed to touch me like Asimov, say.

Really I only brought Dick up to pass the time on a boring friday afternoon.
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« Reply #34 on: July 23, 2010, 05:18:04 AM »
Someone around here once suggested that if I ever have a reason to write an autobiography, I should entitle it "Some Bullshit Exegesis".

I've always loved that.

I would title my online journal that but that website don't dig swears.
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« Reply #35 on: July 23, 2010, 02:19:02 PM »
I had some Dick time back in my day, it was a rough ride, and he's not my usual type.  It was a singular affair and I never looked back.

Also, I just pasted some Doctorow from Ash's link into the "I write like" and it came back Stephen King.
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« Reply #36 on: July 23, 2010, 03:01:47 PM »
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I think Dick is overrated.  He's kind of a lousy writer and I give his ideas a B+ at best.  I can think of several SF writers of his generation that I respect more.

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« Reply #37 on: July 23, 2010, 04:02:54 PM »
Heinlein passed away in May and Louis L'amour in June of the same year. I still remember walking into the library in June of '88 and seeing a huge collected memorial display of their works, it was my first notice that they'd both passed away. I thought my head would a'splode.

Very different writers but often one similar theme buried in there, and both hit it with a big brass hammer.

I agree with AW, by the way. Dick is worthy of reading, but is not a golden age gem of the first water.
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« Reply #38 on: July 23, 2010, 05:46:18 PM »
Hell, I like Niven better than Dick.
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« Reply #39 on: July 23, 2010, 06:34:55 PM »
Niven is more recent, but I hells of yes agree.
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« Reply #40 on: May 31, 2011, 06:18:37 AM »
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Fuck you, I've been here since the start and I don't have to follow your stupid rules. Plus it's slow around here.

Dick has some interesting ideas, but he was a serious dick. Heinlein is fun to read and also has some interesting ideas, but he also has some pretty stupid ideas - which is not to say I haven't read all his stuff (random fact I just learned - the various branches of the military have official reading lists, and Starship Troopers is in there).

When I want sci-fi I want Varley, Niven/Pournelle, Harrison (fun and often silly), Verne, Wells, Douglas Adams, Bradbury (but jesus is he uneven) and Fred Brown. William Gibson is good . . . but I think a little goes a long way. Everybody probably ought to read Vonnegut, but I wonder about folks who always put him in the top five. He's one of those guys that I feel like you read him and then you move on after a bit. Huxley's in the top 20 or something as is Burgess and Ballard. I liked reading Orson Scott Card's books, and along the same lines Nancy Kress. I haven't really dialled into Bester and Van Vogt and Doc Smith and those guys like I should - I've read some of that stuff but not enough. Harlan Ellison . . . . some stuff is good and some is pretty annoying. Neil Gaiman is obviously awesome.

Also, I wrote this post in the style of Cory Doctorow.
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« Reply #41 on: May 31, 2011, 07:16:11 AM »
No love for Asimov?
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« Reply #42 on: May 31, 2011, 07:39:27 AM »
Quote from: pmcd9 on May 31, 2011, 07:16:11 AM
No love for Asimov?

This probably ought to go in the other thread, but I've never read an Asimov work, other than some weird trivia book he put out.
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