Ubik
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Call Number: World-SPA-Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Unusual, but good submitted by jnfaro on July 12, 2011, 7:31pm If I had to describe Ubik, by Phillip K Dick in one word, I would undoubtably pick weird. Philip K Dick was a sufferer of Paranoid Schizophrenia, and it is obvious while reading the Ubik. Even Compared Dick's other works, Ubik stands out. It is a combination of Sci-Fi, Horror, and most interestingly, absurdist comedy. The book's main characters are locked in a world where everything they know is suddenly deteriorating, and nothing is real, even themselves. This means that the book is hard to follow, and requires the reader to be constantly be paying their full attention. It is unsettling, to say the least. While I can't honestly say that Ubik is an amazing novel, I feel like it is worth reading for its sheer uniqueness, so I give it a tentative recommendation.
PUBLISHED
Madrid : La Factoría de Ideas, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 314, [5] p. ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9788498003185
8498003180
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Espín, Manuel.
SUBJECTS
Businessmen -- Fiction.
Explosions -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Spanish language materials.
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Humorous fiction.
Science fiction.