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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Gripping, human, comic, and critique, Clans of the Alphane Moon is a rollicking, paranoid space adventure in classic Dick style. It is a coherent whole, unlike other of his novels, and an interesting exploration of post-DSM-5 defunct schizophrenic subtypes. There's probably a good Foucauldian analysis to be had about pathologizing the mind, but I'm content with "this book was very fun."
This was a frustrating read. I mean, all of Dick's pre-Palmer Eldritch works are frustrating merely by virtue of having been written before his best work, but this one had a good idea that Dick could have really gotten his teeth into later in his career. A society made up of the mentally ill, with a caste system based on each individual's disorder? That deserves a better book than this.
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t a really fun read for me but I have some Complaints:
I find the entire portrayal of “Ghanditown” (never mind just lifting the caste thing) terminally racist
This book was very obviously written in the 60s and I don’t like the conclusions about mental illness or colonization
PKD: he’s more of an ideas guy
I find the entire portrayal of “Ghanditown” (never mind just lifting the caste thing) terminally racist
This book was very obviously written in the 60s and I don’t like the conclusions about mental illness or colonization
PKD: he’s more of an ideas guy
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Racism
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Could not put this down. Just check out that teaser summary - shut up and take my money, right? But then I'm reading it, and going holy guacamole, I was not expecting all the head games going on... in a book about a planet of mental patients. Exactly. Go read it.