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A review by ayyboddu
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Philip K. Dick, David Streitfeld
5.0
This book was a pleasant surprise. I almost didn't buy it, I was just browsing at the bookstore but the cover was too pretty. I also didn't really know who Philip Dick was although it did sound familiar (I don't read a lot of sci-fi). Turns out he's the guy that wrote the book that Blade Runner was based on!
The book is a curated collection of interviews, leading up to quite literally his last interview, since he suffered a stroke that would kill him the very next day. A lot of people would call Philip K. Dick cuckoo, and I get why. The entire time I felt like I was having a conversation with a friend while we were high on shrooms. And I loved it. It had everything you could expect from a shroom session: paranoia, conversations of all sorts, deep, philosophical, silly, and crazy. It also has Dick feeling like he was literally God.
I think there's a lot in here that would spark interesting conversation with open minded people, which I really enjoyed. Everyone can agree that Dick was a little bit crazy (especially in that last interview) but I believe that to reach that stage of craziness, you had to have not been afraid of imagining the whackiest of realities. And for that I appreciate him.
Needless to say, I will be reading every book in this series.
The book is a curated collection of interviews, leading up to quite literally his last interview, since he suffered a stroke that would kill him the very next day. A lot of people would call Philip K. Dick cuckoo, and I get why. The entire time I felt like I was having a conversation with a friend while we were high on shrooms. And I loved it. It had everything you could expect from a shroom session: paranoia, conversations of all sorts, deep, philosophical, silly, and crazy. It also has Dick feeling like he was literally God.
I think there's a lot in here that would spark interesting conversation with open minded people, which I really enjoyed. Everyone can agree that Dick was a little bit crazy (especially in that last interview) but I believe that to reach that stage of craziness, you had to have not been afraid of imagining the whackiest of realities. And for that I appreciate him.
Needless to say, I will be reading every book in this series.