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A Scanner Darkly

By Philip K. Dick

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| Paperback | 9780679736653

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Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain Continue

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.

Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

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  • A Scanner Darkly

    You don't have to be into sci-fi to know Dick. Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck?. You've seen 'em. Or you've read where they come from. And even if you haven't done either, you've felt 'em all, reverberating through the pop consc ... (read full critics)

    flakmag published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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    read it in ebook format, at night - in the dark - on my palm pc; that seemed to me quite an appropriate way to do it. liked it - it was my first dick. strange fact: i've found that, with this book - as, btw, with pynchon's "crying" - that everyone tends to recall his favorite bits of the book, while ... (continue)

    read it in ebook format, at night - in the dark - on my palm pc; that seemed to me quite an appropriate way to do it. liked it - it was my first dick. strange fact: i've found that, with this book - as, btw, with pynchon's "crying" - that everyone tends to recall his favorite bits of the book, while completely forgettin' other nice parts: no-one seems to remember, for instance, the hashish-made man with the clockwork inside, walking 'till---

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