Scan barcode
A review by bookwomble
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Philip K. Dick, David Streitfeld
4.0
A fantastic collection of interviews with PKD from 1974 up to the night before he died in 1982.
I found the earlier interviews facinating, even though the interviewers seemed to have an unnatural obsession with Dick's alleged paranoia, despite his refusal to accept that label other than if it covered the rest of humanity with him.
Dick provides some great insights into his works and world view, and clears up once and for all what he thinks about the Rick Deckard is he/isn't he an android (sorry, Replicant) in Ridley Scott's film, Blade Runner. I don't care what revelations might be made in the up-coming Blade Runner 2 movie, if they don't go with Dick's view they will get it wrong!
The 'Last Interview' of the title was, for me, poignant and sad. Dick seems consumed by his religious mania (I have no other word for it) and seems incoherent at times and it is no wonder that the interviewer, Gregg Rickman, begged leave to end the interview as it's likely he would otherwise have been there until the early hours of the next morning. Although, as I write that, I realise that if Rickman had stayed around, maybe he would have been there when Dick had his stroke and could have got him medical assistance more quickly and... well, that would be a different reality than the one we have, I guess.
Whether or not you're a Dick-Head, this is an intriguing insight into the strange world of an unconventional and complex human person.
I found the earlier interviews facinating, even though the interviewers seemed to have an unnatural obsession with Dick's alleged paranoia, despite his refusal to accept that label other than if it covered the rest of humanity with him.
Dick provides some great insights into his works and world view, and clears up once and for all what he thinks about the Rick Deckard is he/isn't he an android (sorry, Replicant) in Ridley Scott's film, Blade Runner. I don't care what revelations might be made in the up-coming Blade Runner 2 movie, if they don't go with Dick's view they will get it wrong!
The 'Last Interview' of the title was, for me, poignant and sad. Dick seems consumed by his religious mania (I have no other word for it) and seems incoherent at times and it is no wonder that the interviewer, Gregg Rickman, begged leave to end the interview as it's likely he would otherwise have been there until the early hours of the next morning. Although, as I write that, I realise that if Rickman had stayed around, maybe he would have been there when Dick had his stroke and could have got him medical assistance more quickly and... well, that would be a different reality than the one we have, I guess.
Whether or not you're a Dick-Head, this is an intriguing insight into the strange world of an unconventional and complex human person.