Imagine a book club full of Dick-heads all studying the same book.
That's right. A longtime fan of science fiction genius Philip K. Dick will be live-blogging his reading experience this summer. David Gill (founder of both the blog and the pun, Total Dick Head) will be revisiting Dick's dense novel, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
His post inspired me to dig out my own copy and re-read this trippy masterpiece. Check it out:
"Scene by scene, chapter by chapter, I'll be analyzing the action, looking for common PKD themes and connections to other works, enjoying the new notes on the novel prepared by Jonathan Lethem for the Library of America release, and exploring scholarly work done on the novel."
Yesterday Kimberlee Morrison suggested we all pick up the "cerebral and intricate" novel Paradise. That book has already spawned plenty of book club analysis, but could merit a blogged reading as well.
Close reading such "intricate" books will make you a stronger writer and help you find your reading community as well. What other books could use this kind of close reading among blogging fans? (Thanks, SF Signal!)
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