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『フランツ?カフカ作品集（14作品?1册）』収録作品一覧?年代顺

変身
火夫
判决
流刑地で
処刑の话
审判
道理の前で
家のあるじとして気になること
家长の心配
皇帝の使者
罪?苦痛?希望?及び眞实の道についての考察
最初の苦悩
断食芸人
城

【第二版?作品を年代顺に変更?误字修正（2014/12/02）】
【フランツ?カフカ作品集?出版委员会】闭闭> 1126 Franz Kafka Jeff 4 Fabulous! 4.23 2011
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Fabulous!
]]> 13206900
When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.

But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even find the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.

Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter claim their happily ever afters by defeating Levana once and for all?]]> 827 Marissa Meyer 0312642989 Jeff 0 to-read 4.41 2015
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Pursued by a fiendish enemy, Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeance and murder that threatens more than the San Francisco Bay area. For Merle Corey of California is also Merlin, son of Corwin, vanished Prince of Amber; and the forces, seeking to destroy the royal house, have unleashed sorceries that can strike anywhere, especially at the very heart of Amber.]]> 175 Roger Zelazny Jeff 4 4.56 1986
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A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL

What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.

But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.

Richard Matheson's powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.]]> 288 Richard Matheson 0765308703 Jeff 5 Great novel. 3.96 1978
author: Richard Matheson
name: Jeff
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Great novel.
]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 Jeff 4 Great novel! 4.26 1989
author: Dan Simmons
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]]> 13145
Gary Soneji wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the first female supervisor of the Secret Service. They complete one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.

Alex and Jezzie are about to have a forbidden love affair—at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happens in Alex Cross's precinct and it happens under the nose of Jezzie and her men.

Alex faces the ultimate test: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath?]]> 449 James Patterson 0446692638 Jeff 3 4.13 1993
author: James Patterson
name: Jeff
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 95232
Now Johnny has returned to converse with the doomed and the dead–and wait for Vinny to make his move. Survivors of a long-ago freak accident, the two men share access to alternate realities no one else can know–and to a past and present that will all become the same in a city only one of them can leave alive. . . .]]> 302 Tom Piccirilli 0553587218 Jeff 3 3.65 2006
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]]> 174752
But Cal's ennui is shattered when he discovers evidence of a murder which occurred in his room over the Christmas recess. Obsessed with unearthing the particulars of this gruesome and haunting event, Cal wanders down the grotesque hallowed halls of a university gone mad.

Run-ins with the two hard-nosed campus security guards, relationship hurdles with both friends and lovers, and enigmatic signals from the Dean's icily eminent wife force Caleb to question his place in the bizarre night classes of higher education.

Even as he gets ever closer to the truth, Caleb is plagued by the supernatural occurrence known as stigmata: his hands bleed in imitation of the wounds of Christ whenever someone close to him dies.

And Cal's hands are bleeding a lot these days.]]> 278 Tom Piccirilli 0843951257 Jeff 5 3.22 2000
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]]> 95239
They’ve nicknamed Flynn “The Miracle Man” because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: This is all your fault Flynn has returned from The Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.]]> 317 Tom Piccirilli 0553384082 Jeff 3 3.47 2007
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]]> 2187560
Now Chase is out for revenge—and he’ll have to turn to the one man he hates most in the world. Only Jonah can teach Chase how to become a stone-cold killer. But even as the two men work together, Chase knows that their unresolved past will eventually lead them to a showdown of their own.]]> 303 Tom Piccirilli 0553590847 Jeff 4 3.83 2008
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]]> 13096307
Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk, Terry Rand cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree that left eight dead. Five years later, only days before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry and asks him to return home. Collie claims he wasn’t responsible for one of the murders—and insists that the real killer is still on the loose.

Dogged by his own demons, Terry is swept back into the schemes and scams of his family: His father, Pinsch, a retired cat burglar, brokenhearted because of his two sons. His card-sharp uncles, Mal and Grey, who’ve incurred the anger of the local mob. His grandfather, Shep, whose mind is failing but whose fingers can still slip out a wallet? from across the room. His teenage sister, Dale, who’s flirting dangerously with the lure of the family business. And Kimmie, the woman Terry abandoned, who’s now raising a child with Terry’s former best friend. ?

Terry pieces together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface.

A meditation on how love can confine a person just as easily as it can free him, juxtaposing shocking violence and sly humor, The Last Kind Words is the brilliantly inventive family saga that only a singular talent like Tom Piccirilli could conjure.]]> 320 Tom Piccirilli 0553592483 Jeff 3 3.67 2012
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]]> 19138 339 Gary A. Braunbeck 0843955775 Jeff 3 3.53 2005
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]]> 19140
Robert is about to begin a journey into a world of nightmare, an unimaginable world of mystery, horror and revelation. He will learn, from both the living and the dead, secrets about this world and things beyond this world. Though his journey will be grotesque, terrifying and heartbreaking, he will not be allowed to stop. But can he survive with his mind intact? Can he survive at all?]]> 378 Gary A. Braunbeck 0843953292 Jeff 4 3.75 2000
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]]> 397868 228 James Herbert 033045157X Jeff 5 A fun novel! 3.79 1988
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A fun novel!
]]> 397867 208 James Herbert 0333761189 Jeff 4 3.93 1974
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average rating: 3.93
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rating: 4
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]]> 397860 345 James Herbert 0330376152 Jeff 3 3.89 1975
author: James Herbert
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> 92009
Naomi went into the tunnels to destroy herself...but found an even more terrible fate awaiting her in the twisting corridors. And now, the man who loves Naomi must find her...and bring her back to the world of the living, a world where a New York brownstone holds a burial ground of those accused of witchcraft, where the secrets of the living may be found within the ancient diary of a witch, and where a creature known only as the Serpent has escaped its bounds at last.]]> 359 Douglas Clegg 0843948574 Jeff 3 3.34 1998
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]]> 23849 368 Douglas Clegg 0843944390 Jeff 4 Terrific! 3.33 1998
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]]> 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Jeff 3 A classic. 3.88 1937
author: John Steinbeck
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]]> 470186 400 John Brunner 0575070528 Jeff 4 Another great book! 3.76 1969
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]]> 872586 304 John Brunner 0345312244 Jeff 4 3.73 1983
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]]> 632733 The Last Lonely Man: In a world without fear of death, no one had to be alone...except the man who took friendship a step too far.
An Elixir for the Emperor: It was an ingenious ploy in Roman politics...until Caesar actually got what he asked for!
The Totally Rich: Their wealth could buy anything imaginable, except what their hearts most desired...
What Friends Are For: He was the best designed child money could buy - and every parent's nightmare. But then he found a friend...
...and lots more!

Contents:

Introduction: The Brunner Mosaic by Joe Haldeman
The Totally Rich
The Last Lonely Man
Galactic Consumer Report No. 1
Fair
Such Stuff
Galactic Consumer Report No. 2
Tracking with Close-ups (21) and (23)
X-Hero
No Future in It
Galactic Consumer Report No. 3
What Friends Are For
The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day
Galactic Consumer Report No. 4
The Man Who Saw the Thousand-Year Reich
An Elixir for the Emperor
The Vitanuls]]> 288 John Brunner 0345353072 Jeff 4 3.72 1976
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]]> 650161 And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show why Sturgeon won every science fiction award given.

Won't You Walk...?
New York Vignette
The Half-Way Tree Murder
The Skills of Xanadu
The Claustrophile
Dead Dames Don't Dial
Fear Is a Business
The Other Man
The Waiting Thing Inside (with Don Ward)
The Deadly Innocent (with Don Ward)
And Now the News...
The Girl Had Guts
The Other Celia
Affair With a Green Monkey
The Pod and the Barrier]]> 392 Theodore Sturgeon 155643460X Jeff 5 4.56 2003
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]]> 953428 Foreword by James Gunn
Stories:
Maturity
Tiny and the Monster
The Sky Was Full of Ships
Largo
Thunder and Roses
It Wasn't Syzygy
The Blue Letter (prev unpub)
Wham Bop
Well Spiced
Hurricane Trio
That Low
Memory
There Is No Defense
The Professor's Teddy-Bear
A Way Home
Maturity (original second half)]]> 400 Theodore Sturgeon 1556432526 Jeff 5 4.25 1997
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]]> 274619 The Ultimate Egoist, the first volume of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, contains the late author's earliest work, written from 1937 to 1940. Although Sturgeon's reach was limited to the lengths of the short story and novelette, his influence was strongly felt by even the most original science fiction stylists, including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe, each of whom contributes a laudatory foreword. The more than 40 stories here showcase Sturgeon's masterful knack with clever, O. Henry-ish plot twists, sparkling character development, and almost archetypal, why didn't I think of that? story ideas. Early Sturgeon masterpieces include "It," about the violence done by a creature spontaneously born from garbage and mud, and "Helix the Cat," about an inventor's bizarre encounter with a disembodied soul and the cat that saves it. Sturgeon's unique genius is timelessly entertaining.

Table of Contents:
Forewords by Ray Bradbury,
Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe
Stories:
Heavy Insurance
The Heart
Cellmate
Fluffy
Alter Ego (prev unpub)
Mailed Through a Porthole
A Noose of Light (prev unpub)
Strangers on a Train (prev unpub)
Accidentally on Porpoise
The Right Line (prev unpub)
Golden Day
Permit Me My Gesture
Watch My Smoke
The Other Cheek
Extraordinary Seamen
One Sick Kid
His Good Angel
Some People Forget
A God in a Garden
Fit for a King
Ex-Bachelor Extract
East is East
Three People (prev unpub)
Eyes of Blue
Ether Breather
Her Choice
Cajun Providence
Strike Three (prev unpub)
Contact!
The Call
Helix the Cat
To Shorten Sale
Thanksgiving Again (prev unpub)
Bianca's Hands
Derm Fool
He Shuttles
Turkish Delight
Niobe
The Long Arm
The Man on the Steps
Punctuational Advice
A Place of Honor
The Ultimate Egoist
It
Butyl and the Breather
Look Around You (poem)
Mahout]]> 408 Theodore Sturgeon 1556432992 Jeff 5 4.04 1995
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]]> 646430 352 Hugh B. Cave 084395082X Jeff 4 3.10 2003
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]]> 646432 359 Hugh B. Cave 084394739X Jeff 4 3.18 2000
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]]> 363004 Stephen King
Whitley Strieber
John Farris
Tom Piccirilli
David J. Schow
Bentley Little
...and many others.

Shocking and cutting edge, these tales of doom, depravity, and menace will chill your blood and haunt your soul. From fantastic supernatural terrors to the very real horrors waiting outside your own front door, these stories expand the boundaries of fear and madness...
--back cover

Contents:
Rami temporalis / Gary Braunbeck --
All hands / John R. Platt --
Faith will make you free / Holly Newstein --
N0072-JKI / Adam Corbin Fusco --
Time for me / Barry Hoffman --
The growth of Alan Ashley / Bill Gauthier --
The goat / Whitt Pond --
Prisoner 392 / Jon F. Merz --
The food processor / Michael Canfield --
Story time with the BlueField strangler / John Farris --
Answering the call / Brian Freeman --
Smooth operator / Dominick Cancilla --
Father Bob and Bobby / Whitley Strieber --
A thing / Barbara Malenky --
The planting / Bentley Little --
Infliction / John McIlveen --
Dysfunction / Darren O. Godfrey --
The thing too hideous to describe / David J. Schow --
Slipknot / Brett Alexander Savory --
Magic numbers / Gene O. Neill --
Head music / Lon Prater --
Around it still the sumac grows / Tom Piccirilli --
Annabell / L. Lynn Young --
One of those weeks / Bev Vincent --
Stationary bike / Stephen King.]]> 429 Thomas F. Monteleone 0446610356 Jeff 5 4.01 2003
author: Thomas F. Monteleone
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average rating: 4.01
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Another great story by Barbara Malenky!
]]> 4845359 410 Lee Allen Howard 0977187101 Jeff 5 4.21 2006
author: Lee Allen Howard
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average rating: 4.21
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Great story by Barbara Malenky
]]> 6342004 576 Roger Zelazny 1886778779 Jeff 4 4.51 2009
author: Roger Zelazny
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average rating: 4.51
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]]> 1853658 "Auntie Helen" the little boy sobbed, "I'm home, and nobody's here!"

The phone trembled in Helen Connolly's hand. She could not believe her ears. This was her nephew, Michael Young on the phone, Michael, who had been dead for sixteen years.

Who was this mysterious caller? Could it really be Michael? And if so, what did he want?]]> 249 John Farris 0671802178 Jeff 5 3.50 1967
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]]> 209525 296 M.P. Shiel 0803292791 Jeff 4 3.41 1901
author: M.P. Shiel
name: Jeff
average rating: 3.41
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]]> 179738
Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man's dog, his best friend in the world. And when the boys shoot the dog -- for nothing, for simple spite -- he sees red, like a mist before his eyes. And before the whole thing is done there'll be more red. Red for blood...]]> 204 Jack Ketchum 1892950472 Jeff 3 3.95 1996
author: Jack Ketchum
name: Jeff
average rating: 3.95
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rating: 3
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]]> 179742 400 Jack Ketchum 0843948760 Jeff 3 Good book! 3.77 2001
author: Jack Ketchum
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average rating: 3.77
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Good book!
]]> 84943 Librarian's note: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.

When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy and brutish Jack, each of the boys attempts to establish control as the reality - and brutal savagery - of their situation sets in.

The boys' struggle to find a way of existing in a community with no fixed boundaries invites readers to evaluate the concepts involved in social and political constructs and moral frameworks. Ideas of community, leadership, and the rule of law are called into question as the reader has to consider who has a right to power, why, and what the consequences of the acquisition of power may be. Often compared to Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies also represents a coming-of-age story of innocence lost.]]> 202 William Golding Jeff 0 to-read 3.64 1954
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name: Jeff
average rating: 3.64
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]]> 33547 Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity. Now a new investigation has been mounted - four strangers, each with his or her own reason for daring the unknown torments and temptations of the mansion...]]> 301 Richard Matheson 0727860992 Jeff 4 Great novel! 3.73 1971
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]]> 9554786 "Jasmine Archer’s life became a living nightmare of fear, hostility and resentment after being forced into the shadowy world of the Blood Drinkers by the cruel and iron hand of her stepfather, Emel Bowerstand.
Forced to live in darkness, drinking the blood of the innocent, beautiful Jasmine is trapped in a world without hope.
Unable to abide her stepfather’s tyranny, Jasmine runs away, vowing to leave behind her life as it was and starts anew. But can she find love and acceptance in a world where no one knows who or what she really is?]]> 194 Brenda Bailey Jeff 4 the series.]]> 4.00 2010
author: Brenda Bailey
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A well-written novel. Nice prose and story. Look forward to
the series.
]]> 513166 306 0553295594 Jeff 3 A fun I Robot novel by Isaac! 3.81 1992
author: Roger MacBride Allen w/ and Essay By Isaac Asimov
name: Jeff
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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A fun I Robot novel by Isaac!
]]> 50033
Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last--the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming.]]> 239 Ray Bradbury 0671037706 Jeff 2 4.07 1957
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Jeff
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1957
rating: 2
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Ray is one of my favorites. The prose was great in this novel, but the story I felt was weak. Prose is a wonderful aspect in short stories, but seems to null itsef in novels, especially in abundance. I would have to say when Ray is at his best, he is better than anyone else!
]]> 165908
Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.]]> 256 Philip K. Dick 1400030102 Jeff 4 3.75 1957
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Jeff
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Eye in the sky has an interesting twist to the alternate-universe novel, a novel that speaks truth, albeit imaginatively underlined. A nice re-read for myself!
]]> 216398 The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God — or a being called Yah — were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state?

The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence"
--West Coast Review of Books

]]> 238 Philip K. Dick 0679734457 Jeff 5 3.83 1981
author: Philip K. Dick
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1981
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This book should be read by every human on Earth. Strange that it is the last PKD book for me to read -- I have read all 36 of his novels. I believe I wasn't ready to understand this parble novel until now. A fantastc adventure into truth and wisdom. A must-read!
]]> 216384 Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.

]]> 169 Philip K. Dick 1400030099 Jeff 5 that I couldn't give the novel six stars! Being an older writer, I remember trying
to contact Philip by mail. I'm not too sure if he ever read my letters, but I'll have to
say he is one of my favorites. I enjoyed re-reading this intense novel.]]> 3.49 1960
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Jeff
average rating: 3.49
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rating: 5
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This novel was said to be one of PKD's "not so good" novels. I'm just upset
that I couldn't give the novel six stars! Being an older writer, I remember trying
to contact Philip by mail. I'm not too sure if he ever read my letters, but I'll have to
say he is one of my favorites. I enjoyed re-reading this intense novel.
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