I can't afford to pay my door fee to go outside until my next paycheck next week, so I'm going to stay in and listen to PKD audiobooks in the meantime.
PKD is so good. This is my fav PKD. It's always fresh every time I read it or listen. This recording is primo. I love Runciter's voice. We miss you PKD.
Certainly one of the best PKD stories. And I agree with the other comments about the performing reader. A great tale brought to life by a super reading. Thanks for sharing this.
Joe Chip having a mental breakdown over his crappy coffee really got me.😂 So relatable. Also, I love this reader! His Glen Runciter voice sounds exactly like Lionel Barrymore
This beautiful story is really about Joe Chip for me. The guy who couldn't keep his life together and who chooses women poorly and finally loses the one who he really wants and wants him and whom he is meant to be with and the guy who everyone thought was destined to fail, who pulls it to together and finally focuses enough when it counts at the last moment to save not only himself but also the man he admires as a father figure and the business they built together who has trusted him and put some faith in him. That's me?, I hope, I wish. I hope in that last moment I'm not the loser I appear to be at times. It's going to be a very close call and nothing is assured. Jory is a dangerous psychopath who ends up on the other side. There well be plenty of them we will have to deal with there just as we do here. I miss you PKD.
You're wrong. It's about the reality of telepathy & precognition, dormant in everyone. Check the CIA research of psychics in the 1970s called "Remote Viewing", led by Ingo Swann, who was friends with PKDick.
This is the first time I've "read" this. I've read short synopses by others and always passed on it. 56 years of reading Science Fiction books and I finally got around to it. Yikes, it sounds like an acid trip! Good story. I didn't know what I was missing! Good luck filming this one!!!
Yes I haven't read or heard this book either! But it's sounding promising so far! Really I've never read, or seen and film that was based on one of Philip K Dicks books or short stories the wasn't intriguing, thought provoking, pushing the edges, wild excitement, and a future possible life that was wildly outrageous, fantastical and frightening scenarios. The longer I live, some of which are actually coming true?! These AI robots are exactly like the Replicants in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". It was made into BLADERUNNERS films!
Its an upload of a hardcopy audiobook (probably the MP3 given how clean it is), professionally read. Very unlikely it was read by the uploader, or that they have any stake in Blackstone Audio or w/e the company was called :L
The subtle disruptions in reality, the feeling displaced from the timeline... It all makes a lot of sense if you know the author's mental state during his life. 😬
Funny to think of this being written in 1969 and perfectly encapsulating the surreal world of online gaming. Assets that spawn and vanish as needed for the player, the fixation of a quest needing you to locate some arbitrary item to save the world. A fun story and a fun reader
really quality reader (Glen Runciter') draws you right in cant beat the old classics from a old classic myself lolo but only on the outside,still about 11.3/4 in my heart still,,thanks for giving us the opportunity to revisit these gems,,love and contentment from Bob & MrTao Liverpool UK xxxx
it's turned out thus; Aldous Huxley, Jean Baudrillard, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson . . . . have emerged as the four great pillars of *futurism* . . . .
@@nbme-answers I really liked A Maze of Death. Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Martian Time Slip, Time Out of Joint, Penultimate Truth, Valis are all really great. Man In High Castle, Do Androids Dream, 3 Stigmata.. even his Exegesis... theres sooo much PKD to recommend, it's some of my greatest time spent and my mind loved it so much I couldn't get enuff. If you can handle it....... Recommendations? I could be here for hours, days talking stories & writers
I've read about a dozen so far. I'd say Ubik is my second favorite so far. First I'd say Confessions of a Crap Artist but that's not a typical PKD book.
Stanisław Lem . . . just looking up Solaris 1961, until i hit the stay behind network on the Dendral systems . . . currently scouting the 95% "Global Primary Habitability scale" . . . is a solid, almost Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone around the ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 approximately 40 light-years (12.1 parsecs, or nearly 3.7336×1014 km) away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius.
I noticed flow my tears the policeman said is no longer on YT..... no surprise considering the current social climate. Everyone should read/hear that one
We are actually all in Cold Pac. The internet is the connections developed between us lying in close proximity in half-life. The state of the world is all the evidence we need to prove that Jory runs the show. And my Martian Grub Worm TV Dinner is defective too!
@@xsonnyx1177 it kinda means the same as "the matrix has you neo" or "what pill do you choose, blue or red". Your reality isn´t reality at all and you might as well dive head first in the toilet bowl of a public bathroom. The way PKD tells that to the character, with a morbid rhyme casualy spray painted in a toilet wall, is brilliant, to me.
If Minority Report and Blade Runner got a movie adaptation, so can this novel. The problem is that this is probably one of those books that might be hard to adapt to the big screen.
I'm from Cleveland also. The best line from the book. The rock in roll capital of the world. Come to Cleveland and get your can of UBIK and buy an album while you are here.
I kinda 'like' it meself but if I found someone else soiling it with their grubby fingers I wouldn't be bothered. It's alright to spend a day or two with my face buried right in there between its', er, front bits and back bits, but... I'd leave it at a bus-stop & never look back. No love lost there.
44:00 poor guy is withdrawing from meth, owes his life and more to the credit agency, some asshole at his door at 7:30AM, and the fucking door wants a nickel in order to open.
I uploaded another version only released in Japan with a alternate being middle and end it's he wrote as an apology for man I ca high castle and the future release of minority report as a film
Spoiler alert: I have to wonder why pat didn't just leave everything on the timeline where Runseter was retired or something like that, why take the much more high risk plan of infiltrating their operation and then leading them into a trap herself? .
I think because hollis hired her to get rid of them. I don’t think she, personally, cared at all. And I don’t think she realized hollis was gonna kill her too
2:38:53 - 2:40:59 🤔🤣 This is why 'smart meters' MUST NOT BE ALLOWED into your home... It's just a matter of time until such things come to pass; I suspect they are imminent 🤔🤖🙀
I'm tracking my reading here, will delete when finished, 3:43:50 a few minutes into chapter 9. There's a time-stamped list iif chapters in comments *"This isn't my day. [An incidental ccharacter says in Chapter 9.] When I woke up this morning, my parrot was dead."*
All his characters need a job on another paper back and this guy should be on genital hospital. Robert downey and rip torn now that who the dick pic foundation should have broke out the funds and got I'm not gonna make it through this and it's one his best
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Narrator is Anthony Heald if anybody was wondering. Great voice for reading PKD.
He's so good
There is nothing better then a great oral performance of P.K. Dick books. This really is one of the best narrations. Thank You
Except that Sammy Mundo voice. Intolerable
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You are VERY thoughtful & kind!! Thanks...😘💕💞
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@@robertorecchia7219 thanks
My man!
I can't afford to pay my door fee to go outside until my next paycheck next week, so I'm going to stay in and listen to PKD audiobooks in the meantime.
Solid call!! 😎
What is a door fee
@@iansparkman379 Probably something Ron Deathsantis passed in Floriduh along with his "5 years in jail for some registered voters" law he just passed.
@@ROOKTABULA Stay in your containment state, shitlib.
@@adamsinger123 a as
PKD is so good. This is my fav PKD. It's always fresh every time I read it or listen. This recording is primo. I love Runciter's voice. We miss you PKD.
I like Valis 💥 RIP PKD 💙
Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich for me.
Martian Time Slip one of his more underrated novels if you haven't read it check that out too.
@@yossarian1633 gubish gubish. Put yr gubish into my gabish! Best one from pkd. Manfred,good godz...
@@yossarian1633 oh cool I'd already planned to listen to that next. I've listened to ubik twice before and am blown away each time
Wow I gotta say, some impressive voice acting here. Kudos to the Artist ont this amazing read! Fantastic
I'm not sure, but I think it's Anthony Heald, the guy who played the doctor in Silence of the Lambs
@@dpo1713 no it's CERTAINLY NOT the talented Welshman Anthony Hopkins 🤣
@@SmokinGnu the DOCTOR in silence of the Lambs
This guy’s the PERFECT reader👍
You have a perfect finger
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@@ballsbrasstak4881 er... why, Thank You!
The way the narrator read the door's lines had me laughing out loud. Great narration.
Narration masterclass
Ga Wa ; this reading is so incredibly good. maybe the best audiobook narration I've ever come across, honestly.
indeed
The song of ice and fire audiobooks are comparable tbh
I agree with you completely excellent with all the different voices!!!
Certainly one of the best PKD stories. And I agree with the other comments about the performing reader. A great tale brought to life by a super reading. Thanks for sharing this.
This is tiresome.
@@jeffreystrain6031 so you're not just Strained in name only.
J Strain?
Eye Strain?
Brain Strain?
God Bless You Sir
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@@jeffreystrain6031 so you're not just Strained in name only.
J Strain?
Eye Strain?
Brain Strain?
God Bless You Sir
🙈🙉🙊
@@SmokinGnu I used to cartoons of Muscle Strain and others. Why didn't I draw Eye Strain?
Joe Chip having a mental breakdown over his crappy coffee really got me.😂 So relatable. Also, I love this reader! His Glen Runciter voice sounds exactly like Lionel Barrymore
This beautiful story is really about Joe Chip for me. The guy who couldn't keep his life together and who chooses women poorly and finally loses the one who he really wants and wants him and whom he is meant to be with and the guy who everyone thought was destined to fail, who pulls it to together and finally focuses enough when it counts at the last moment to save not only himself but also the man he admires as a father figure and the business they built together who has trusted him and put some faith in him. That's me?, I hope, I wish. I hope in that last moment I'm not the loser I appear to be at times. It's going to be a very close call and nothing is assured. Jory is a dangerous psychopath who ends up on the other side. There well be plenty of them we will have to deal with there just as we do here. I miss you PKD.
You're wrong. It's about the reality of telepathy & precognition, dormant in everyone. Check the CIA research of psychics in the 1970s called "Remote Viewing", led by Ingo Swann, who was friends with PKDick.
@@vtvpodcast he's telling what he thinks in his thoughts..our ...thoughts.
@@vtvpodcast "this story is really about.... FOR ME" and you have the nerve to say his opinion is wrong..... You sir are a fool.
you authorized in this moratorium ?
You are such a romantic. Good for you. Anyway to enjoy PKD? If you like romantic, check out The Man In The High Castle... It's a mind blower.
PKD has an extremely unique mind! It seems like he's tapping into something real.
Everything I've ever read of his has come true or is beginning right now. He was a prophet.
This is the first time I've "read" this. I've read short synopses by others and always passed on it. 56 years of reading Science Fiction books and I finally got around to it. Yikes, it sounds like an acid trip! Good story. I didn't know what I was missing! Good luck filming this one!!!
Rule of thumb: if you get an opportunity to read a PKD construct - do not turn it down but instead dive right in.
What other sci fi books did you like?
Yes I haven't read or heard this book either!
But it's sounding promising so far!
Really I've never read, or seen and film that was based on one of Philip K Dicks books or short stories the wasn't intriguing, thought provoking, pushing the edges, wild excitement, and a future possible life that was wildly outrageous, fantastical and frightening scenarios.
The longer I live, some of which are actually coming true?!
These AI robots are exactly like the Replicants in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
It was made into BLADERUNNERS films!
It's incredible, how a movie hasn't been made yet is mad x
Thanks, these books are a life saver to me.........
I know what you mean. What a cold dark ocean 🌊
Christina Reynolds they offer a lantern on a lonely moonless night.
Christina Reynolds if you don't understand I envy you.
What is up with psychotic anti social individuals gravitating to dick novels. (I included) How wonderful that is
Valis is my fav in that case
A brilliant mindfuck of a book.
I had 80 pages left when I had to bring it back to the library. Listening to the rest of it here since someone else got it before I could renew...
This book aged extremely well! Thank you for posting!
this narration is top notch dude
Its an upload of a hardcopy audiobook (probably the MP3 given how clean it is), professionally read. Very unlikely it was read by the uploader, or that they have any stake in Blackstone Audio or w/e the company was called :L
It's Anthony Heald isn't it?
Dip dyed cheese cloth crevat good eve
Wow just wow. What a mind. Love you PKD
Who is this amazing narrator? And why do Blackstone always have the best readers... audible etc should take note
First read this book when I was 19, best PKD book ever (took me a Day or 2 to read, could not put it down.)
Yeah well I first read this book when I was 8 BICH and I did in a day
@@ballsbrasstak4881 So there! 👅🖕
cracked af
Awesome reading! Thank you so much for making this available for free.
Yeah free
The subtle disruptions in reality, the feeling displaced from the timeline... It all makes a lot of sense if you know the author's mental state during his life. 😬
Funny to think of this being written in 1969 and perfectly encapsulating the surreal world of online gaming. Assets that spawn and vanish as needed for the player, the fixation of a quest needing you to locate some arbitrary item to save the world.
A fun story and a fun reader
Insightful... Yes but I wonder if you know this is a story as old as the hills..
1969!?!? 4000 bce
Joseph Campbell??!!
Optimistic and pessimistic at the same time.
Idk if your review is intelligent or dtupid. So you summed this up as a an analogy for some game? Lmao
@@badlaamaurukehuso, realist ?
really quality reader (Glen Runciter') draws you right in cant beat the old classics from a old classic myself lolo but only on the outside,still about 11.3/4 in my heart still,,thanks for giving us the opportunity to revisit these gems,,love and contentment from Bob & MrTao Liverpool UK xxxx
it's turned out thus; Aldous Huxley, Jean Baudrillard, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson . . . . have emerged as the four great pillars of *futurism* . . . .
And (IMO 3 out of the 4 authors) are pre-eminent Dystopians too.
My Fav PKD Book
I've read over 25
Trocero Quijas wow, what others would you recommend?
@@nbme-answers I really liked A Maze of Death. Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Martian Time Slip, Time Out of Joint, Penultimate Truth, Valis are all really great. Man In High Castle, Do Androids Dream, 3 Stigmata.. even his Exegesis... theres sooo much PKD to recommend, it's some of my greatest time spent and my mind loved it so much I couldn't get enuff. If you can handle it....... Recommendations? I could be here for hours, days talking stories & writers
I've read about a dozen so far. I'd say Ubik is my second favorite so far. First I'd say Confessions of a Crap Artist but that's not a typical PKD book.
I reccomend the galatic pot healer. Very relatable.
@@niccoloandretti5681 Can the EXEGESIS of pkd be read and understood without reading 'any' of his other books beforehand?
Thanks for putting this up, fantastic! And what a great reader.
One of my favorite authors
Stanisław Lem . . . just looking up Solaris 1961, until i hit the stay behind network on the Dendral systems . . . currently scouting the 95%
"Global Primary Habitability scale" . . . is a solid, almost Earth-sized exoplanet
orbiting within the habitable zone around the ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 approximately 40 light-years (12.1 parsecs, or nearly 3.7336×1014 km) away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius.
Every time someone’s clothing is described, it’s crazy
I noticed flow my tears the policeman said is no longer on YT..... no surprise considering the current social climate. Everyone should read/hear that one
Brilliant narration. Thanks for posting this Audio Xod.
Fantastic narration, thank you!
We are actually all in Cold Pac. The internet is the connections developed between us lying in close proximity in half-life. The state of the world is all the evidence we need to prove that Jory runs the show. And my Martian Grub Worm TV Dinner is defective too!
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This is a 7 hour psychedelic trip.
P K.D You ain't kidding.
Blew my mind, like a blast. My minds blown.
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Predicting the matrix within the matrix within the matrix.... we can never know
4:03:30 LEAN OVER THE BOW AND THEN TAKE A DIVE! ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD, I AM ALIVE! i love this part so much
What does it mean, I'm confused!?!?!
@@xsonnyx1177 ...over the bowl... (toilet bowl). Philip K. Autistic sense of humor.
@@xsonnyx1177 it kinda means the same as "the matrix has you neo" or "what pill do you choose, blue or red". Your reality isn´t reality at all and you might as well dive head first in the toilet bowl of a public bathroom. The way PKD tells that to the character, with a morbid rhyme casualy spray painted in a toilet wall, is brilliant, to me.
This is so so funny, thanks for a solid journey!
I love PKD. Ubik is my favorite book but wish I could understand English because to read from the original.
Me too, mate 👍
Born in Trump-land & I still am not sure I understand English as well as you!
Americans are taught ignorance from pre-K on, sadly: Thanks, Trump! 🤦♀️
THANK YOU SO MUCH BEST READING EVER 😍😍😍😍
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🌮
Safe when used as directed
There are a few, well narrated Philip K. Dick stories on Libravox too...The Defenders being a good example.
Philip K Dick was LIVING a science fiction life. Wasnt it Stanlislaw Lem that said that other scif writers were pretenders?
If Minority Report and Blade Runner got a movie adaptation, so can this novel. The problem is that this is probably one of those books that might be hard to adapt to the big screen.
We're living it.
Fabulous reading! Thanks.
Fabulous stash
Great voice!
Thanks great quality
Best read version of Ubik.
This is WONDERFULLY read!
By the way the bottle is for the perfume EDEN... love it
Amazing. Thank you!
Your very welcome
Berserk brought me here. Its a manga. If no one here has read it I recomend it.
How's that?
@@orderofelim theres a character named Ubik in the manga iirc
Ah, seen Berserk but didn't remember that. Good one.
I guess we discovered this SF classic the same way ^^
@@orderofelim It’s one of the God Hand,. They are all named after sic-Fyi novels.
"Only made in Cleveland!" I was made in Cleveland. Maybe this is why dead people have such a hard time killing me.
I'm from Cleveland also. The best line from the book.
The rock in roll capital of the world.
Come to Cleveland and get your can of UBIK and buy an album while you are here.
Thank you for this wonderful reading!
What's so wonderful about a jobs worth broth brit brick your developer must be a right nice prick
As stated by others - SUPERB narration.
I love this book.
Why?
Because it can't answer back? Because it has no opinion on body odour? Low maintainence p'raps?
Perhaps you like to finger its' pages in bed? ...& Why not.
I kinda 'like' it meself but if I found someone else soiling it with their grubby fingers I wouldn't be bothered. It's alright to spend a day or two with my face buried right in there between its', er, front bits and back bits, but... I'd leave it at a bus-stop & never look back. No love lost there.
44:00 poor guy is withdrawing from meth, owes his life and more to the credit agency, some asshole at his door at 7:30AM, and the fucking door wants a nickel in order to open.
This is a trip & a half
Digging the narrator so far 👌🏻
My favorite PKD story (there's plenty of amazing ones to pick from)
this was an interesting book. That ending...
My go to feel good story. Thanks
phenomenal reading 🤯
My favorite of all his novels.
This is acted not just read!! Nice😊
Thanks for the upload!
👽🤖👻
I uploaded another version only released in Japan with a alternate being middle and end it's he wrote as an apology for man I ca high castle and the future release of minority report as a film
Spoiler alert:
I have to wonder why pat didn't just leave everything on the timeline where Runseter was retired or something like that, why take the much more high risk plan of infiltrating their operation and then leading them into a trap herself? .
Because evil requires it !
I think because hollis hired her to get rid of them. I don’t think she, personally, cared at all. And I don’t think she realized hollis was gonna kill her too
She was only 17. Kids make mistakes like the rest of us
@@kumaridesilva sounds right, looks like I need to listen to it again
2:38:53 - 2:40:59 🤔🤣 This is why 'smart meters' MUST NOT BE ALLOWED into your home... It's just a matter of time until such things come to pass; I suspect they are imminent 🤔🤖🙀
Class consciousness
Anthony Heald. One of my favourite narrators.
Subscribed! Thanks for this.
I totally felt like this kinda had a Douglas Adams feel to it, but with the humor pulled waaay back.
Great book.
Disney, tea and mahogany stained wooden cupboards that smell like 1800 musk idk whet your talking bout
@@ballsbrasstak4881 🤔😅😂🤣🤣🔝👏🏽
I love yu pkd!
so goooooooood!
I'm tracking my reading here, will delete when finished, 3:43:50 a few minutes into chapter 9. There's a time-stamped list iif chapters in comments
*"This isn't my day. [An incidental ccharacter says in Chapter 9.] When I woke up this morning, my parrot was dead."*
Anyone else keep finding coins with the face of David Bowie on them in their pockets?
Nope, only you it would seem.
Life on Mars?
Narrator played Dr.Chilton in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He’s good but his read of female characters needs work.
All his characters need a job on another paper back and this guy should be on genital hospital. Robert downey and rip torn now that who the dick pic foundation should have broke out the funds and got I'm not gonna make it through this and it's one his best
You could use a bit of work too. Try sitting on a nail and then we’ll see what kind of high your voice will make.
cheers, mate
Im about halfway through and this story is nauseously tantalizing
Did you finish?
Narration first class. Thanks for sharing.
Boo
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@ 1:40:53 "BetelJEWZ" mentioned and I watched "Beetlejuice" last night or night before !! *~:)
🙂👍👍
Does anyone think this will ever be a movie?
Some of the ideas have been used in Doctor Who episodes.
It's pretty abstract as a whole...
But ya never know.
I recall reading an article that John Lennon bought the rights to make a movie adaptation but it never got off the ground
35:00 What in the name of my Google feed is going on in this here twisted tale of days yet to come?!?!... 😮🤔🤨😐...
They are here now! Cold Pac is "shelter in place". Trump is Jory!
* Published in 1969
In my top 5 PKD novels.
Thirty minutes in and i'm laughing like hell. Good writing, great narration, thank you.
I need UBIK. But am i in cold pack? Are we all in cold pack?
PKD is good at making us question what we think of as reality! I'm pretty sure that he's on to something.
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Personal bookmarks
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Thank you
This is going to save my grade in science fiction
Plagiarism is that why?
@@ballsbrasstak4881 Because it was easier to get through a novel when I could listen to it at work 5 nights a week, dickhead
"Isn't Walt Disney's head supposed to be on the 50 cent piece?"
"Either that or Fidel Castro, if it's an older coin"
What would think of TH-cam (commercials)and Chat gbt?
thanks so much
Bookmark 5:49
Great, book, great reading....one voice reading?
HighTimeTunes Yes, the narrator is Anthony Heald www.amazon.com/Ubik/dp/B001EPO4XY
@@nbme-answers Wonderful job!