Okay, so I have been a bit behind on writing about the books that I have been reading. Normally I do my summary and opinions right away to help reinforce the book into my memory bank. I have been pretty busy the last couple of months so I have been failing on this task, but I have still managed to read a couple of things. I will go ahead and write about them now and hope that my memory serves me correctly.
A Scanner Darkly is a book that I have been trying to read for years. After reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I was convinced that I was going to be a complete Philip K Dick fan. This book however was not one of my favorites. It took me forever to get through and the ending disappointed me. It was kind of difficult for me to follow and then the big ending where all is revealed, didn’t happen because I was still trying to piece together what was happening for the character to get to this point.
A Scanner Darkly is about a cop that has become addicted to Substance D. His department begins to do an investigation on him concerning the drug and at the same time he is assigned a task to investigate a mystery person in the Substance D world. We find out early on that he is this person, but his department does not do. In this book we watch the mental deterioration as Substance D literally rips his brain into two. Amazing concept; but I failed to understand it in its entirety.
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