brendamn's Reviews (370)

When i read it the book seemed great at the time, my bad. Pretty funny how this had been a book that a college course of mine had used as material that also required me to meet a certain minimum amount of citations for all my papers.

Definitely a fun and entertaining read, other than that not much more to say.

Overall an entertaining book built around incredibly unique central concept. That is it though really. It felt like the book suffered greatly in structure as well as character development, because it could not have maintained it's central twist/reveal if written otherwise.

Non-linear plots can add incredible value to a book if well done, but this just was not the right book for that kind of structure. It was an entertaining read at least, but that doesn't make it good.

Flow My Tears is up in the realm of VALIS, Electric Sheep, and Ubik for me. Phillip K. Dick works where a large part of what makes them excellent is that it tells a story that no one else but him would think to tell. It is true for all of all his works where he retained full agency of telling the story, but in these cases it has a multiplier effect.

that's really it. I am just glad have been completely awed by a PKD as I have before, and hope it is not close to the last time.