Thank you for uploading this. I love the fact that there are no ads to give me a heart attack during the reading. Grover Gardener is an audiobook legend!
@@stuartandrews6165 these are from a free/no ad source. LibriBox Audiobooks here on TH-cam. They have EVERYTHING! Highly recommend. For the best no ad radio plays, OTRR. Both are treasures!
There's an old saying that describes a very fine line between Genius and Insanity. Phillip Dick lived pretty much his entire life with his feet standing each side of that metaphoric frontier. Straddling the razors edge not really able to break totally into either. When Mr. Dick writes about Brain chemical mental disorders it is from a perspective he shared. He at times had difficulties distinguishing between reality and psychosis, never really able to trust what he was experiencing. From everything I've seen/read/heard on the subject of Mr. Dick he would have been perfectly happy to be on either side of that fence, even a total psychotic break from the real world would plant him firmly in a place of non-wavering perceptions, no matter how false they may be he could trust it wasn't going to change.
I think a lot of it was caused by amphetamine abuse... I know from experience that heavy use causes periods of psychosis so real it's really difficult to rationalise your way out of it
Iv read all but 6 of pkd work and there are a few that for some reason one u cant quite know that u keep returning to and remember word for word....this is one of them...enjoy
This is an absolute pleasure. There's also quite a lot of comedy in PKD. In one of the books one of the main characters is a telepathic slime mold - in Martian Time Slip we have not only Arnie's antics, but the psychiatrist who can't help mentally diagnosing everyone he meets. I guess this book is like Longmont potion castle - people either understand why I think it's wonderful, or they're mystified
Though I've probably read and re-read the VALIS trilogy more times than I remember and love all his other books, more than most other authors, there is something so uniquely satisfying about Martian Time Slip and the characters who inhabit the book - definitely not his most important work, but it is his most satisfying if that makes sense.
@@ian_b Flow my Tears the Policeman Said. A Scanner Darkly. Those two are not available on TH-cam😩but I heard them before they were pulled down. Many others that i can’t remember now are wonderful. I’ve listened to Do androids at least 30 times. I’m not joking. He lives in his writings.
I still need to read VALIS. I just listened to Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, UBIK, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for the first time. I've read Man in the High Castle twice. His novels are so addictive.
Only about halfway through but I can’t help but notice the similarities to Dune that simply can not be coincidences. Although I don’t know who the guilt lays with this is a great listen.
This came out the year before Dune, however Herbert worked on Dune for almost a decade. I had this same feeling too, I think the desert themes have a lot to do with it. The pre-cognition too.
@@freedom_rock18I've just restarted Alphane Moon. Trying to rediscover the love I had for these books years ago :) I did the same, binge reading about 25 PKD books back then
Decent story. I’m glad that Dick had a sympathetic, albeit misguided, view of mental disorders, considering he was schizophrenic himself. (Spoilers below) I’m glad the story had a somewhat happy ending with Manfred able to thank Jack, even though he was a very passive protagonist. But why did Manfred reappear as an old man hooked up to tubes if his past/the book’s events had altered his “present” so that he wasn’t stuck in Am-Web anymore?
That version of him that appears at the end book with the tubes, and all did not end up at Am-Web. The version of Manfred that appeared at the end of the novel was the Manfred who left to live with the bleakman, grew to an old age away from Am-Web and then came back in time to thank Jack for the good life.
Thank you for uploading this. I love the fact that there are no ads to give me a heart attack during the reading. Grover Gardener is an audiobook legend!
Yes. And yes. And yes he is... Gubble gubble.
I listen to OTR and audiobooks when I lay down. The commercials have often woke me up, much like an old ‘90s alarm clocks with radio station alarms.
What do you mean no ads?11 mins in BANG" loud ad.......
@@stuartandrews6165 these are from a free/no ad source. LibriBox Audiobooks here on TH-cam. They have EVERYTHING! Highly recommend.
For the best no ad radio plays, OTRR.
Both are treasures!
@@stuartandrews6165one minute eight seconds.
There's an old saying that describes a very fine line between Genius and Insanity. Phillip Dick lived pretty much his entire life with his feet standing each side of that metaphoric frontier. Straddling the razors edge not really able to break totally into either. When Mr. Dick writes about Brain chemical mental disorders it is from a perspective he shared. He at times had difficulties distinguishing between reality and psychosis, never really able to trust what he was experiencing. From everything I've seen/read/heard on the subject of Mr. Dick he would have been perfectly happy to be on either side of that fence, even a total psychotic break from the real world would plant him firmly in a place of non-wavering perceptions, no matter how false they may be he could trust it wasn't going to change.
His portrayal of madness in his character is too astute to be a simply researched pov
I think a lot of it was caused by amphetamine abuse... I know from experience that heavy use causes periods of psychosis so real it's really difficult to rationalise your way out of it
Or as Salvador Dalí said, 'The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.'
It's called meth dumbass. Amphetamine psychosis. Stop pontificating.
Iv read all but 6 of pkd work and there are a few that for some reason one u cant quite know that u keep returning to and remember word for word....this is one of them...enjoy
I totally agree with the former post. PKD will always be relevant. Such a keen mind cannot be ignored or forgotten.
Thank you for posting this. We have to keep PKDs work out there.
It's been out there for a while...in Hollywood. Blade Runner, Minority Report, many others.
This is an absolute pleasure.
There's also quite a lot of comedy in PKD. In one of the books one of the main characters is a telepathic slime mold - in Martian Time Slip we have not only Arnie's antics, but the psychiatrist who can't help mentally diagnosing everyone he meets.
I guess this book is like Longmont potion castle - people either understand why I think it's wonderful, or they're mystified
Though I've probably read and re-read the VALIS trilogy more times than I remember and love all his other books, more than most other authors, there is something so uniquely satisfying about Martian Time Slip and the characters who inhabit the book - definitely not his most important work, but it is his most satisfying if that makes sense.
One of my three favourites, the others are Galactic Pot Healer (first PKD I read) and Eye In The Sky.
@@ian_b Flow my Tears the Policeman Said.
A Scanner Darkly.
Those two are not available on TH-cam😩but I heard them before they were pulled down.
Many others that i can’t remember now are wonderful.
I’ve listened to Do androids at least 30 times. I’m not joking.
He lives in his writings.
@@sumchi3690 Yes, Flow My Tears is another favourite of mine.
@@ian_b”gubble gubble gubble… here comes the gubbler to turn you into gubbish”
This
Excellent narration 😊
Chapter 2: 22:55
Chapter 5: 2:04:00
Chapter 6: 2:38:37
Chapter 7: 3:11:10
Chapter 8: 3:41:34
Chapter 11: 5:10:18
Chapter 13: 6:14:21
Chapter 16: 7:36:20
Excellent ! Second time. Always some GNOSIS downloaded the second time around. Finished VALIS for third time in 9/2020. *~:)
I still need to read VALIS. I just listened to Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, UBIK, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for the first time. I've read Man in the High Castle twice. His novels are so addictive.
Chapter 9 4:05:33
Chapter 10 4:34:15
Chapter 12 5:40:55
Chapter 14 6:46:20
Chapter 15 7:08:40
Thank you
cheers, mate
This reader is superb. Who is it?
At the very end he is credited: Grover Gardner.
TOTALLY AGREE
it's like Archie Bunker on Mars. I managed 24 minutes. It needed Gloria and Meathead.
Only about halfway through but I can’t help but notice the similarities to Dune that simply can not be coincidences. Although I don’t know who the guilt lays with this is a great listen.
This came out the year before Dune, however Herbert worked on Dune for almost a decade. I had this same feeling too, I think the desert themes have a lot to do with it. The pre-cognition too.
Im depressed now😢 im happy now😊 im depressed now😢 im happy now😊 im depres.......
Gubble me, gubble me more 😂
Ahhhh the talking mold
Isn't that from Clans of the Alphane Moon?
The telepathic slime mold :)
@@SuperBartles no you right you right..I’ve read most of his work in the matter of like a year so it kinda all blurs together
@@freedom_rock18I've just restarted Alphane Moon. Trying to rediscover the love I had for these books years ago :)
I did the same, binge reading about 25 PKD books back then
@@SuperBartlesI loved eye in the sky, and solar lottery, now wait for last year ,confessions of a crap artist.
Such a grad book
2:27:00 WTF Corona corporation?
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Sh*t quality audio duh
Weird story
nice to see CEO of racism won the space race
Decent story. I’m glad that Dick had a sympathetic, albeit misguided, view of mental disorders, considering he was schizophrenic himself. (Spoilers below)
I’m glad the story had a somewhat happy ending with Manfred able to thank Jack, even though he was a very passive protagonist. But why did Manfred reappear as an old man hooked up to tubes if his past/the book’s events had altered his “present” so that he wasn’t stuck in Am-Web anymore?
That version of him that appears at the end book with the tubes, and all did not end up at Am-Web. The version of Manfred that appeared at the end of the novel was the Manfred who left to live with the bleakman, grew to an old age away from Am-Web and then came back in time to thank Jack for the good life.