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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
author: Eric Hoffer
name: Steev
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1951
rating: 4
read at: 2009/10/17
date added: 2009/10/24
shelves: politics

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle

author: Philip K. Dick

name: Steev

average rating: 3.86

book published: 1962

rating: 5

read at: 2004/06/01

date added: 2009/10/17

shelves: novels, politics

review:
I think this is still my favorite of all PKD's novels. It has the most sweeping vision of alternate reality and it is the most chilling and close to home, even if it's one of the most outlandish.

A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly

author: Philip K. Dick

name: Steev

average rating: 4.00

book published: 1977

rating: 4

read at: 2009/09/15

date added: 2009/10/17

shelves: novels

review:
As usual, PKD messes with your head in this "what is reality?" and "what is self?" psychodrama.