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Time Out of Joint
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Kamawan
- 08-12-18
That's some good Philip K Dick.
I'm a huge fan of Philip K Dick, but will be the first to say that some of his books are terrible. This is no such book, it's a mind-bender in the classic Dick way, but not over the top or so twisted that it's hard to follow. Absolutely worth a credit. Great easy listen, very good storyline. Reports that it was predictable fail to take into account that it's familiar only because it's good, and the concepts have been appropriated by others over the years. You'll recognise parts which have been reused in modern books and films. This book is one of the founding fathers of modern sci-fi, and I really enjoyed it in the couple of days in which I didn't put it down. Same narrator as The Man In The High Castle, who plays some characters in a really odd way (think of Robert Childen from that very book - that particular voice is recycled here).
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- Anonymous User
- 27-06-18
Influential story
A variety of voices from the narrator but not really for me. A solid performance nevertheless. The book is instantly recognisable as a classic. I won't spoil the plot but listening to this book I can see where many stories and popular films have found their Inspiration. Very forward thinking. Cannot say too much without spoiling the plot but a very good story and one for all fans of science fiction.
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- G
- 12-02-21
very good but not pkds best
the first pks classic as he was just finding his stride. some of his work over the next couple of decades explored similar themes and types of story and did it better, but if you have worked your way through those this is well worth a read/listen.
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- Mr. Farren K. Perkins
- 12-07-20
A great introduction to the writing of PKD
This was my first foray in to his writing and it did not disappoint. It's fairly grounded for much of the book, which lets you settle in to his writing style as thing become increasingly out of joint, then kind of crazy.
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- Nicola S.
- 29-08-18
Stupid twist at the end
Story is a little slow. Not Philip K Dicks’s best book. Still I enjoyed it.
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- Justine Powell
- 10-07-16
Very good, but the misogyny is hard to take
The plot was fantastic, but the relentlessly dim, trivial female characters, and the awful ways the men related to them made it hard to listen to.
I won't rush to listen another Philip K Dick, even though I bought several in one go.
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- Anniebligh
- 15-01-13
Well ahead of his time even in 1959
People who know PKD's works do not need a review.
To hear one of PKD's earlier novels has been a great experience. His stories travel better through time than most of Heinlein's novels. At times I was reminded of 'The Manchurian Candidate' ( Richard Condon, 1959) and of the more recent CIA experiments in mind control.
I was/am keen to again hear Heinlein's 'Moon is a Harsh Mistress' (that I do rank as one of my favouite stories) after listening to this.
Jeff Cummings' reading was good as were the ideas embedded in the story. The quest for the nature of reality and the nature of words in defining percieved reality is interesting at very least. ( Not a spoiler because that is not the story, just following through to his later works.)
For anyone new to PKD this is a mystery story set in a future written over 50 years ago, and not too hard to follow,
For me it was a great listen.
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- Alwayswalkingmydog
- 16-03-15
Nice and Easy until Something Gives!
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The nice and easy fifties, families living their post war lives until one day something odd happens. Discover ever so slowly what is hidden and then hang on for the ride of a lifetime!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though it starts out very slow, almost boring. It is so worth it, because it intensifies the suspense that builds up slowly until suddenly everything falls apart and the reader sits at the edge of the seat until the last page!
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- Darwin8u
- 13-06-15
Mediocre Mother to Gravity's Rainbow and the Truman Show?
A book that could have inspired both Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (anticipation of rockets) and the Truman Show (community set up around one man). While I give it points for anticipating a couple generations early the narcissism of the 21st century, the absurdity of American Exceptionalism, the shallow falseness of community on FB, etc., it was in the end just too damn slow. Most of the narrative was underwater. Not as kinetic or beautiful as his later stuff (read, it is sometimes boring). There was no rush. There were no prose daisies to pick as I picked through the pages. It was good just not great. It was PKD, just not great PKD
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 26-10-18
Dystopic future with pastoral past
Time Out of Joint by Philip K Dick is a dystopian future where Earth is at war with lunar colonists and the only individual who can inform defense is living in a 1959 version of the US where solving a daily newspaper puzzle provides the clues for the next planetary strikes. Gumm is surrounded by others most of which have been brainwashed into believing this fantasy. Gradually, he becomes aware of something not right and finally escapes to learn the truth.
Surprisingly, Dick utilizes very little sci-fi, other than the lunar colonization which is only mentioned. 1998 offers little in the way of advancement (other than lunar conquest) in terms of technology. The elaborate nature of the ruse seems overdone as is the ease of which lunar spies and sympathizers can infiltrate.
The narration is reasonable with good pacing that moves the tale along quickly.
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- catie
- 25-01-17
Satisfying
Time Out of Joint is a great book. It's a reminiscent of the film Truman Show and the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. PKD employs some of his usual tropes: constructed reality and government conspiracy, to build a gripping story about a man undergoing a Freudian regression. In this novel the 50's utopia, called "Old Town", is more quaint than creepy, but it's wrought with glitches and non sequiturs. The only reason I didn't give this book a 5 star rating is that it's a small scale read, with a limited world. That said, no questions are left unanswered and it's overall a very satisfying production:) Enjoy!
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- BOA
- 22-02-21
Time Out of Joint
I’m crazy for Philip K. Dick. I only discovered him a few years ago, and I’ve accumulated about a dozen of his Audible novels. There is a pleasantness in the narrator’s tone that makes this a delightful experience. Highly recommended!
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- Brad Armstrong
- 09-08-18
Time yarn copyright 1959
dated story by a good author but cutting edge thought is capable of much greater depth now
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- ThreeFiveDelta
- 25-06-18
Time Out of Joint...from 1959
amazing book. He got the political persuasions reversed for the 21st century, however, which is a fascinating political science subtext.
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-01-18
elements of Truman show and Ubiq abound.
elements of Truman show and Ubiq abound. worth the short listen. buy it now ok.
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- Matthew
- 06-03-16
Sounds like its the basis of a lot of other storie
Has a lot of star was tropes, but like usual with Dick this is their birth place.