Is the half life reality like limbo before reincarnation? The ending is very PKD because it seems like you can never know the true nature of reality. Kind of like Man in the High Castle
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We'll never know. The book gets so trippy toward the end that it's impossible to tell if any of the content in it was ever real in the first place, up to and including the beginning parts with Runciter.
It was - he died
Good point. Last book of his I read was A Scanner Darkly. I do like his type of writing
You could interpret the entire book as someone's half-life-induced dream, or heck, maybe someone's regular dying dream, but even then , you're left with the question of whose dream we're seeing. Joe's? Runciter's? Pat Conley's. Some random loony named Philip? ^_~
Great point. I was fascinated by the book taking place in a sort of afterlife. The ending made me wonder if Inception took any inspiration from it. I think this could be a great movie done with the same type of animation as A Scanner Darkly.
While you're on the PKD kick, you could try watching Waking Life. It's a film where a variety of people talk about assorted subjects of existentialism, often with one hapless protagonist who seems to be living in a perpetual dream state where he awakens from one dream only to find himself in another. Definitely feels inspired by Philip K. Dick's writings. And Like A Scanner Darkly, it's completely rotoscoped. In fact...nevermind, it was made by the same guy, Richard Linklater.