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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 52 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this is the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, work.
In the Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74”, a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information”. In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, in a freewheeling voice that ranges through personal confession, esoteric scholarship, dream accounts, and fictional fugues, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit.
This volume, the culmination of many years of transcription and archival research, has been annotated by the editors and by a unique group of writers and scholars chosen to offer a range of views into one of the most improbable and mind-altering manuscripts ever brought to light.
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What is a garage philosopher? That label comes from one of the editors of the fascinating if quirky musings of Philip K. Dick. Known to readers and movie goers as a science fiction writer, this long and winding tome follows a different road. A dropout from UC Berkeley, Dick pursued his own independent studies in philosophy and religion. His Exegesis begins in the mid-1970s following a mystical experience that refocused the author's life. The journals follow his attempts to not only chronicle that life-changing event but make sense of what appears to be nonsensical. Seeking answers that may not be there to find, he reads the Jerusalem Bible and the philosophical histories of Will Durant. His interests range from the Jesus Freak Christianity of the 1970s to the Buddhist and Vedanta philosophies that were popularized in his native California. Slowly he develops his own theological viewpoint that informs the novels he wrote shortly before his death, which came ironically just months before the movie Blade Runner made him famous. The editors, who distilled stacks and stacks of handwritten journal entries into this book, readily admit that some of Dick's insights are screwy but others are profound and almost every entry is compelling if for no other reason than the passion the writer puts into his work. I have listened to this wonderful reading by Fred Stella over and over for more than a year and am still amazed to find new insights. Philip K. Dick may sometimes seem to be from another planet but he is never boring.
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- Jonathan
- 12-24-11
See, It's complicated...
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes, as someone who has read over thirty of Dick's novels, I can honestly say that this book offers insights into not only The Valis Trilogy, and Radio Free Albemuth, but his earlier works as well.
Some may say that Dick is not only playing at being a prophet, but that he is actively revising the scope and the ideas that made his late work in the 60's - inducing such novels as Ubik, and the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - so accessible and popular. There was always an element of Judea-Christian guilt present in his earlier novels, and anyone who has read his stories from the 1950's knows that he blended a sort of
Who was your favorite character and why?
Dick himself. In many ways this is a solipsistic journey, something that Dick readily admits to in the Exegesis.
What does Fred Stella bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He is able to capture the tone of Dick's thoughts, and reads them with aplomb. He does well in switching from the narrative, to the editors note - here his tone is mostly academic, but at times irreverent.
What else would you have wanted to know about the authors’s life?
This is not a biography so much as look into a specific, and ever more increasing single aspect of Dick's life. I think the editors do well to include certain indispensable biographical details, but this really is not the focus of the work.
Any additional comments?
If you are a true fan, read it.
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- Jonathan Jordan
- 05-26-18
STOP IT WITH THE NOTES!
I wanted to hear pkd, but the editors feel the need to interject every few sentences. provide the context at the end of the chapter. the decision to interrupt the flow with such frequency resulted in a ruined audiobook.
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- Mrtwstrs
- 05-02-18
To many "notes" breaks in the story
Not going to be able to finish this. The constant story stopping to explain the story to me is annoying. You get focused in and then "ding note explanation explanation etc." then back to story. Notes should've been saved or up to the listener to take notes and look up on his or her own.
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- Cool Hand Luke
- 03-06-17
not for everyone
This is not for everyone. Even fans may struggle with it. PDK is an unconventional genius bordering (or surpassing) insanity. However, it does give excelent insight about one of the greatest SF writers ever. But there are a lot of complex ideas and it will lose you many times over on your first listen. Very fasinating.
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- anacranberry
- 08-22-12
A long and often disjointed philosophical exercise
What did you love best about The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick?
Digging through the mind of a, paranoid, drug addled mind can be rewarding at times. This, his personal notebooks, was an attempt to understand something extraordinary that happened to him and parts will be very disconcerting but, I can now say I understand PKD more than I ever thought possible.
If you’ve listened to books by the authors before, how does this one compare?
This is rote, long winded, but if you are a superfan like myself I suggest you take the plunge. Just don't listen to it all in one sitting. I'm not sure that is possible, actually.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator is a trooper. He did the best he could with the subject matter. You can sense he tires out by hour thirty five but, I'm will to ignore semantic details.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
This made me look at reality as a very tenuous subject. I highly suggest it to fans of outsider art.
Any additional comments?
I don't mind Christian doctrine in the hands of madmen. A good soundtrack to this might be Danielson, or Linda Ronstadt (of course).
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- Robert
- 07-23-13
Gripping Theology, Compelling Philosophy
Seven years steady work in the writing. Three foot stack of closely scribbled paper. Visions in which he saw Christ and experienced the Holy Spirit as a fiery being. This mammoth work blends authentic Christian theology with visionary science fiction. Valis, the Cosmic Christ, generates Information which the Empire suppresses or distorts. We must be on the lookout for hidden messages imprinted on the world. Only these are the keys to power. Extremely deep learning in mythological and theological lore. This fifty-two hour blockbuster is PK Dick's exegesis, or theological analysis, of the scripture that was revealed to him by Valis in a hallucinatory vision, namely, the content of six of his most important works of science fiction.
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- Nikki Guerlain
- 11-14-20
Great Audiobook with one nitpick
Love PKD and this is a great audiobook but it really bothered me that the narrator’s pronunciation of Ubik is different than PKD’s pronunciation. The narrator pronounced Ubik as oo-bik whereas PKD, himself, pronounced it yoo-bik. Given that the narrator is reading PKD’s literal entries discussing Ubik quite a bit, you’d think they’d do him the service of pronouncing it right (the way he/PKD would).
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- andrew ross
- 11-06-16
Nothing like it.
If you can get through this beast, I congratulate you. But you won't need any congratulations, your mind will be blown. It's unlike any other book, fiction it non-fiction ever published.
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- Wallen
- 01-16-14
Only for the most nerdy Dick-fans
Let me start by telling you that I consider Philip K Dick the most talented science fiction writers ever, maybe one of the the most original writers of all categories. I have read all Dick's works (novels and short stories) and several of them are on my top 100 list of the best books ever. I have also read some of the biographies on Dick to try to understand him and his fiction better.
I read my first Dick book in 1974 (We Can Build You) and as I said, I never really stopped - they are great for re-reading even twenty or thirty years later. His best fiction are from the 1960's, but takes a turn for the worst somewhere in the mid 1970's. I've always thought his novels and stories become increasingly "strange" and the religious (or semi-religious) content becomes too much in his last novels (as in Valis). I have wondered why and have attributed the turn for the worse to an ever increasing drug use (every biographer notes Dick's life-long experimenting with drugs). But it turned out I have never really understood why the fiction deteriorated so steeply in the mid-1970's, until I listened to the Exegesis.
Thus, it was with great interest I downloaded this book. What a disappointment I was in for! I was not even able to complete the listening to the entire book, and this despite that I am a really great Dick fan. This book in simply unreadable; very little in it really makes sense.
The explanation for the increased "strangeness" of his fiction lies in "2-3-74", i.e. some experiences of a religious (or semi-religious) nature Dick underwent in February and March of 1974. Another way of explaining it is that he turned more or less crazy around that time. The Exegesis supports that view, in that Dick himself explains he was "chosen" to undergo the "experiences". To a normal mind, this is the description of someone slowly going nuts.
So, in conclusion, if you are a big Dick fan, in Exegesis you will find the explanation why Dick's fiction turned increasingly unreadable if written after 1975 (mercifully enough there are only four novels written after that date). But if you are not a really nerdy Dick fan don't bother reading this kipple. You will not be able to make any sense of it. But the book is well narrated.
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- Spag Hoops
- 09-06-18
going beep in your ear
I was looking forward to listening to this as my drifting off to sleep audio. listening to pkd's reworking of his 2 3 74 experiences over and over would have been surreal soothing and distracting. unfortunately the producers have chosen to include lots of irrelevant footnotes tagged by a beep (in just the same way as the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy did footnotes for the galactic stats segment). it's intensely annoying, pointless and meant I couldn't get past the first 5 mins. any chance of having a version without the footnotes?
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- Synaptyx
- 11-12-20
Under-appreciated and misunderstood
This is for those deeply interested in Philip K. Dick the human being, beyond the mere interest in his writing. This stuff, ‘the Exegesis,’ was never intended for publication in any form, this was Phil working through his wild mind. It’s deep, fascinating and a treat for the true ‘Dick-head.’ Dive in!
No, I don’t work for the publisher.
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- Mark
- 03-29-13
Self indulgent drivel
I am really sorry but after forcing myself to listen through sixteen hours of this self indulgent drivel I am forced to admit defeat and can stomach no more. If Dick's answer to life the universe and everything provided pointers for other human beings then maybe it might be worthy of completion.But these ramblings do nothing to enlighten the reader. In fact they simply provoke the response "for God sake haven't you figured it out yet!" Dick goes around in circles never realising the real importance of the event was that it wasn't important. The real significance of the event happening to him was, he isn't individually important. I can think of better uses for the RAM in my iPod! DELETE...
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- Kirky007
- 10-27-20
Shocking!
I really wondered if it was me. Am I missing something here? I started to question myself. Why don't I get this book, why am I really struggling with this book...? I have come to the conclusion that it is absolutely irrelevant in its being. It is utter nonsense. There is no purpose, reason or direction. I truly feel for Fred Stella the narrator who put 52 hours into this. I also truly wonder what was in Philip K. Dick's mind during this period. I honestly believe if I had carried on listening to this I would now be insane. A brainwashing tool for sure.