Dr. Bloodmoney

Alright, I've now read four PKD books. I can officially say that I'm not a fan. He overcomplicates things. It's like he takes a great idea, writes a great novel, and then puts it in a blender, scrambles it, and reassembles it arbitrarily, publishing it as is.

Parts of this novel are great, but characters often do things for incomprehensible reasons. A couple of them made me mad, they were dim witted to a level that was unbelievable.

Mercifully, it ended well, so that I can almost give it a pass, but I would say that there are so many classics out there, your time might be better spent reading some H.G. Welles, or some Heinlein or Asimov. Their stories made sense, at least, and it turns out, oddly, that it seems to be rather important to me that what I'm reading makes sense.

Now, in the writer's defense, there are whole websites dedicated to how brilliant Dick was, and whole pages that will explain his books. I'm just saying that if I need an English professor to interpret the book for me, then it's not for me. It's for the English professor.

2.5 out of 5 stars.