Valis
by Philip K. Dick

List Price: $13.95
Our Price: $4.49
You Save: $9.46 (68%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

Book Reviews of Valis

Book Review: Horselover Fat hovers hilariously between sanity and divinty
Summary: 5 Stars

After a series of mental traumas and breakdowns Horselover Fat (Dick himself)discovers a cipher hidden in the most banal representations of reality that unlocks the secrets to the universe. Completely confused Fat stumbles from revelation to realisation, constructing complex cosmologies on the way and dicovering the true purpose of the universe and the reasons for all the mistakes.

Along the way he utterly confounds therapists, friends, his own paranoia and the reader, eventaully stumbling on the secret purpose of Valis, the divine operator.

This is a classic rendering of the psychotic mind, the incredible truths it can uncover and the complete confusion and disorientation it suffers along the way.

If you like Dick read this book, it reveals him as fragile, vulnerable and fascinating.

And if you're interested in asking questions about anything, read this book - it won't answer any of them, but it sure as hell will put a different slant on the way you ask them.

Literature & Fiction Books

• Science Fiction & Fantasy