The Final Conversations of Philip K Dick
What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K Dick. Duckworth £7.99 All famous authors have some obsessive acolytes, but few as obsessive as Philip K Dick. Doubtless, there are fans who would lap up his collected shopping lists and Post-it notes. Instead, they have been granted his final 'conversations', though that is a disputable term to describe these lurching bar-room disquisitions, caught by Gwen Lee, who can barely get a word in. Dick comes across as a pub bore: patronising, remorselessly comprehensive in summarising his novels and pompous - he thinks his status as a writer allows him to identify the Holy Spirit as the author of the Gospels. The conviction of the manic autodidact is occasionally tempered by his wide-eyed wonderment at the workings of Hollywood and the book is most interesting for Dick's opinions of Blade Runner, which was being filmed simultaneously. http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,1951613,00.html http://www.amazon.com/World-Their-Heaven-Conversations-Philip/dp/158567009X
What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K Dick. Duckworth £7.99 All famous authors have some obsessive acolytes, but few as obsessive as Philip K Dick. Doubtless, there are fans who would lap up his collected shopping lists and Post-it notes. Instead, they have been granted his final 'conversations', though that is a disputable term to describe these lurching bar-room disquisitions, caught by Gwen Lee, who can barely get a word in. Dick comes across as a pub bore: patronising, remorselessly comprehensive in summarising his novels and pompous - he thinks his status as a writer allows him to identify the Holy Spirit as the author of the Gospels. The conviction of the manic autodidact is occasionally tempered by his wide-eyed wonderment at the workings of Hollywood and the book is most interesting for Dick's opinions of Blade Runner, which was being filmed simultaneously. http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,1951613,00.html http://www.amazon.com/World-Their-Heaven-Conversations-Philip/dp/158567009X