Absurdly High-Stakes Game: The Game-Players of Titan is concerned with the fictional game "Bluff" where players wager spouses and entire cities among other things. La segunda y la mala es que me he pasado como casi todos es que estás muy perdido hasta mitad del libro o incluso más. El autor no se digna en darte ni siquiera una misera respuesta a todas tus preguntas, sino que encima como dice la expresión, no hace más que rizar el rizo y llega a un momento que llega a molestar. Menos mal que he leído el libro de poco a poco, uno o dos capítulos por día, porque siento que si lo hubiera seguido hubiera acabado bastante quemada. Asimismo, he de admitir que ninguno de los personajes consiguió mi simpatía, acabé odiándolos a todos, sobre todo al protagonista. Our Hero Is Dead: Deliberately and effectively subverted in Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, where the main character is killed halfway through and the plot basically falls apart for the rest of the novel.

Flow My Tears The Policeman Said Summary Philip K. Dick Flow My Tears The Policeman Said Summary Philip K. Dick

Giant Eye of Doom: In short story "Fair Game", a nuclear physicist, Professor Douglas, is startled to see an eye the size of a piano looking at him. It turns out to belong to a monstrous being from another dimension that Douglas assumes wants him for his scientific knowledge. It turns out that the monstrous being wanted him for dinner. This isn't a good book for PDK beginners. For anyone curious, watch one of the better movies ( Blade Runner, from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, or Minority Report, from the short story The Minority Report), then read the matching story and consider the differences and similarities and decide whether you can enjoy the unpolished version. There is no Jason Taverner. There never was and there never will be. The hell with my career; I just want to live. If someone or something wants to eradicate my career, okay; do it. But aren't I going to be allowed to exist at all? Wasn't I even born?" Normally, I could overlook gender-biased portrayals if they serve the story or a theme in the narrative. However, it didn't feel like these poorly characterized female characters ever served a purpose except to interact with the male protagonist, Jason Taverner. I don't have any kind of concern about his character since he took that mescaline drug. I suppose I eagerly wanted to know what happened to him that he lost his identity and people don't remember him at all in spite of being a popular son of a bitch. My interest in his welfare continued to decline the more he showed what a pompous chauvinist he was (although his very short interaction with Mary Anne Dominic rekindled some sympathy because that was the only sweet and humanizing moment for his character in this book).

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Esta novela me la he leído en italiano. Su nivel de idioma oscila entre un B1-B2, probablemente un B1 avanzado. Su prosa es simple, no cuenta con excesivas descripciones, por no decir casi inexistentes; tampoco cuenta con un vocabulario especifico de ciencia ficción ya que todo trascurre en la Tierra y la mitad de los capítulos son reflexiones del protagonista sobre lo que le sucede. Jason Taverner es una súper estrella que un día despierta y nadie lo recuerda...a partir de ahí nos encontramos en la carrera de Jason para averiguar el porqué, el problema recae en que, en un mundo altamente controlado por la policia, sin identidad ni papeles, Jason terminará enrollándose con personas peligrosas y situaciones ilegales, en una carrera contra reloj para evitar su muerte o inclusión en los campos de trabajos forzados. Avant-Pop collective MMC Ensemble, references the novel on their first release, Twin Lovers within the songs "Montgomery L. Hopkins", "Jason Taverner Does Not Exist", "Sixes", "Watts Proper", and "Twin Lovers". Gary Numan referenced the novel in the 1978 song "Listen to the Sirens" from the debut Tubeway Army album. The song opens with the lyric, ""Flow My Tears", the new police song"." El final..creo que esté se unirá a mi pequeña lista de libros en los cuales el epílogo es lo que menos me gusto, antes de llegar a esa parte el final era abierto pero me hubiera parecido perfecto que así quedará, el epilogo nos da un vistazo a lo que sucede con todos los personajes y nos deja con la sensación de que eramos un espía durante el transcurso de la historia

FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID - Philip K. Dick FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID - Philip K. Dick

So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power."Jason is the perfect choice as main character for this PKD novel exploring individuality since, for Jason, personal identity equals public identity. He’s a celebrity; he’s his own best fan; he’s in love with himself and envisions all of life revolving around his status as celebrity - to be Jason Taverner, to be a star, the ultimate in being alive. Contrary to how PKD saw it, this revelation doesn’t grant extra significance to his work. To invoke an invisible, sectarian spirit retroactively cheapens the real, universal humanity. I had been told that PKD's books, esp. those near the end of his writing career (which would include 'Flow...') can be abstruse and vexing, but I didn't find that to be true. I found the writing to be, by turns, engaging, elliptic, straightforward (in its own way), (sometimes menacingly) poetic, funny ("It's probably the man from upstairs. He borrows things. Weird things. Like two fifths of an onion."), teasing, of course tense, and (sometimes) even quite tender (esp. the penultimate chapter; sooo good!).

Flow my tears, the policeman said : Philip K. Dick : Free

PDK is mostly famous for the movies that have been made from his novels. His books are a bit obscure, even among many Science Fiction fans, and for a good reason: he's not a very good storyteller. The Man in the High Castle • Martian Time-Slip • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • Ubik • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said • A Scanner Darkly • VALISSpace Age Stasis: In "Pay for the Printer", humans have stopped building or researching anything and instead choose to rely on alien replicators to make copies of items they already possess. Dream Apocalypse: "The Electric Ant" plays with this. The main character finds that his reality is simulated by punchholes in a magnetic tape reel in his chest. He wonders whether the world would fade away if he cuts the tape. He cuts the tape. The next scene is narrated by his wife beside his dead body and she discusses how ridiculous his delusion was. Then she starts fading away. Whether or not he did this out of some empathy with the inmates, he made a lot of enemies in the ranks of the police (now called the pols) and the national guards (now called the nats): Ruth Ray – Attractive, sensitive lady who shares her philosophy of love and grief with Jason. “Grief is the final outcome of love because it is love lost.” In his smugness of being a six, Jason has difficulty relating with such sentiment since the only real love he appreciates and understands is self-love. Ah, self-love, the love that never dies, especially if one is a celebrity. And most especially if one is Jason Taverner. Dowland serves to make us wary of stereotypes. This wondrous, strange egomaniac who draped his identity — and sales pitch — in a veil of fashionable morbidity proposed a miracle cure for his age of anxiety: “Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares Figured as Seaven Passionate Pavans,” as Dowland titled it.