Confessions of a Crap Artist Audiobook

" a mentally challenged man is forced to live with his sister's family in 1950s california. this book is cool! "

" This is a non-scifi novel by the great PK Dick. I would call it some of his better work. From what I remember it looks at what really makes someone "successful" and happy in life. It's been a while. In any case, I remember really enjoying this. "

" A couple problems. The Isidore guy refers to the title of the book as his own--even though the whole book isn't his (with Fay narrating some and nobody narrating the rest). A bigger concern was that his voice changed when he moved up north--and never stayed all that consistent for long. In fact, I'd guess that parts of it too were originally third person before Phil converted them (that's how it reads anyway). Think I'll stick to the sci-fi novels...oh, except I'm all done. "

" After reading "The Galactic Pot healer" a story set on a distant planet, with amorphous water-based gods, and futurist bibles, it is relieving to be brought back to Earth, to California in the 1950s, where "Confessions of a Crap Artist" takes place. The Crap artist is Jack Isodore, an obsessive hoarder of pseudo scientific and questionable conspiracies. While already living with his deceptively controlling sister and her wealthy land owning husband, Jack is persuaded into an apocalyptic U.F.O cult. And here inside the tense and impossible relationship between His sister and her stolen marriage, Jack becomes the hopeless mediator, a scapegoat, and an intruder into an inherent corrupt bond between people who exist in a far stretch from anything near love. Unlike Philip K. Dick's signature science fiction adventures, There is nothing unreal, about "Confessions of a Crap artist, In fact it enters into the realms of things so real, that they in turn become brutal reminders of the unfortunate people who are inevitably fated by their own disasters, and who long for things that they will never quite achieve. "

" Not a Sci-Fi in the generic sense. It's really just a soap opera with people you don't want to be around. "

" This and Scanner Darkly are probably my two favorite. Valis and Flow My Tears and the We Can Build You would be the top five. "

" the closest thing to an autobiography he wrote "

" to me this is dicks finest novel. it really saved my ass anyway. it's screwball and sick and nothing like any of his other works. def. should b classified as noir. "

" Atypical of Dick's work. He, no doubt, was feeling bitter about women and this is the manifestation of that bitterness. Lacking in the humour and sci-fi elements of his classic novels. "

" Characters were insufferable yet it that was probably the point of the story. Not my favourite PKD book. "

" A mental book for mental people. Mental. "

" Outstanding example of Dick's "mainstream" fiction. Bleak but with warm humor. Excellent characterization. "

" Street car named desire combined with Flowers for Algernon. Masterpiece. "

" A captivating story told from multiple perspectives, each with deep and disturbing underlying messages mixed inside a bag of humor. Just another one of P.K. Dick's later, underrated novels. "

" All the characters were unlikeable, and I thought this would be a science-fiction book, but I really enjoyed it. Parts were disturbing, parts were frustrating, and the ending left me with no piece of mind. Amazing book. "