{"id":50569,"date":"2024-01-05T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50569"},"modified":"2024-01-05T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:36:48","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-a-scanner-darkly-by-philip-k-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/05\/%f0%9f%93%9a-a-scanner-darkly-by-philip-k-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1067,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/35a04a5e-e92f-425a-a9ea-41bb3d1bbaf3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>1\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/35a04a5e-e92f-425a-a9ea-41bb3d1bbaf3\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a book involving drug addicts suffering paranoia and breakdowns and generally being kind of horrid to each other, it was actually quite a bit funnier than I expected it to be. (I&#8217;d never seen the film, so had no preconceived notions of what to expect.) It definitely has Dick&#8217;s touch (not least in how the women are treated, which tends not to be one of Dick&#8217;s strengths), but there were many of the rambling, somewhat stream-of-consciousness ridiculous conversations among the drug-addled roomies that were perhaps a little too relatable from my less-than-responsible 20s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pkd_asd-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding A Scanner Darkly\" title=\"pkd_asd.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually quite a bit funnier than I expected it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2794],"class_list":["post-50569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-philip-k-dick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}