I read a book!

This Christmas instead of gorging on my mothers latest wannabe Georgette Heyers I had a literary nostalgia-fest and read a bunch of 70’s sf books including the Phillip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly. Like all of Dick’s work much concerned with identity and reality and which is which. Scanner draws very explicitly on a time in Dick’s life when he’d stopped writing or pretty much anything but downing huge quantities of amphetamines and hanging out with other users.
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