# PKD a hack? *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Oct 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Straight *28 Oct 1999, 09:10* > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 Patri10629 at aol.com wrote: > And let me be frank. No, really frank. Read TIMEQUAKE. Read THE THREE > STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and Look me in the eye and tell me that's > hackwork and I'll buy you a beer. Or read the MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. There is some really beautiful prose in that novel. I read it right after _Little, Big_, so I'm not just talking relatively beautiful prose, or "pretty good for a hack" prose. It was my first Dick novel and I was astounded. I said to myself, "I thought Dick was just a mess of wacky drug-induced paranoia...no one ever told me he *wrote* so well!" -Rostrum ---