PKD a hack?
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Oct 1999
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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

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