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Philip K. Dick in Hollywood

Sep 08, 2007 19:38

I just saw Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. You would think Linklater, of all people, might be best positioned to adapt the obsessively wordy Dick. (I was also hoping Linklater would preserve the ’70s feel of the book ( Read more... )

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books are better anonymous November 18 2007, 06:05:11 UTC

I loved the movie if only because it was like watching cartoons on acid. Enjoyed the graphic novel of the movie, which was easier to view. The actual book by Dick was sad...really sad.

On the subject of books,

If you haven't already you should: Read confessions of an economic hit man. Good stuff.

Katherine
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Re: books are better somercet November 19 2007, 00:09:14 UTC

confessions of an economic hit man

Euw. Socialism makes me break out in a rash. Besides, it sounds like another Scott Thomas Beauchamp fable: the narrative is right but the facts are wrong. I prefer my fiction labeled as such.

We give money to nations... and then cheat them out of it? Wow. That didn't work in Niger. Western powers dumped 4 billion USD into that country and it was almost all stolen. By the president of Niger (currently AWOL). Halliburton never had a chance to steal it for themselves. How sad.

And really… the NSA? The pocket-protected code hackers and phreaks of the NSA engaged in actual skullduggery? Bwahahaha!

You should watch Other People's Money, the real story Oliver Stone messed up in Wall Street. It's a hoot, with the best boardroom duel in any movie, ever.

Or the book A Man Called Intrepid: an account of the very real intelligence operations (written as a fictional biography to obscure the real sources of the material) that drew the U.S. into WWII. History has never produced so devious a President as ( ... )