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The Simulacra
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.
In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.
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- Kamawan
- 28-07-16
Decent book
Narrator was so staccato-robotic that for the first half an hour I honestly could not tell, try as I might, if he was a real person, or an artificial text-to-speech voice, such as Microsoft text-to-speech. Still wouldn't be suprised if it turned out to be artificial. Made it difficult to listen to.
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- marie
- 23-12-12
Philip K Dick is a genius
His stuff reads surprising well. Read aloud you get the time to appreciate his philosophical musings.
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- Dan
- 05-12-21
Terrible voice
The voice is unbearable, like an aged 80s computer. Such a waste of apparently a good book.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-11-21
do not buy
awful narration do not buy. do not buy do not buy awful robot narration that lags
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- G
- 24-09-21
good but not great
Not one of PKDs best but still pretty good. Gets a bit confusing with too many pov characters who aren't distinct enough, but some great ideas as ever.
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- Stephen
- 16-06-16
You got any toast
cause this is my jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam :-) this is my Kawasaki this is my face melting this is my ham
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- Darwin8u
- 09-12-15
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Like a lot of PKD's novels, 'The Simulacra' was messy. I mean messy and complex and absurd and filled with fractals and digressions. Genius in parts, yes. But mostly messy genius. It felt like I was driving a BMW assembled by the art/pit-crew from Mad Max, perhaps.
I loved the concept of it. Dr. Superb, the only remaining psychotherapist in a world filled with the crazy and cranky. He wrote this novel like he just invented the 3 or 4 main characters, starved them a bit, and set them on a collision course and, of course, sat back and watched and wrote.
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- William Fletcher
- 24-02-19
I'll vote this high but...
only cause I'm into Philip K Dick and it's interesting to see his progression as an author. this story is clunky and amateur. it shows that even the greats need practice. I do like the themes though.
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- Charles
- 02-10-18
Narrator is Terrible
I'm sad that Dick Hill is the narrator of more than one Philip K. Dick book. I can't bear listening to him. It sounds like he's struggling to speak. Maybe he has emphysema. Dick Hill is probably a fine person, but I don't understand why Audible has him as a narrator.
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- M.Biblioswine
- 15-05-21
Very nice
Very nice book. Nice performance . The book was produced during the productive years. I recommend it.
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- Giampiero Frischi
- 12-05-20
narration is very boring
narration is very boring its almost like a text to speech... ... really more emotion less robotc would be better