A review by rbruehlman
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

3.0

The eventual premise was interesting, but it took far, far, far, far too long to get there. Literally 90% of the book's intrigue is in the last 20% of the book, and the remaining 80% of the book is so torturously slow. I picked this book up at the recommendation of someone else, and I don't think I would have bothered finishing had he not raved about it. While the genre and premise is definitely up my alley, the stultifying slow execution was such that I couldn't recommend it to anyone else unless they were trapped somewhere for several hours with nothing else to read.