Time Out of Joint Audiobook

" Dick has some fun ideas, e.g., words on a slip of paper replace the things they represent He could have used a mentor to improve his choppy style, though. "

" Great read keeps you guessing. (Truman Show, anyone?) "

" For the first four-fifths of this book, Dick gradually and carefully builds an atmosphere of paranoia and uncertainty with regard to what is real and what is illusion. Unfortunately, the last fifth of the book undoes a lot of this introductory work with an ending that is not up to the same level. "

" This was a great book if you like science fiction! What a great twist ending. It sucks you in from the beginning because you are trying to figure out if the main charature is really crazy of if it's the rest of the world. "

" I liked it, but it was disappointing to figure out the reality Ragle Gumm was looking for, I imagined something more sci-fi, more trippy and imaginative. Perhaps because I know how little close he was guessing what 1998 would be like? However, it's a definite page-turner, the characters are mildly entertaining and likable and the story is intriguing (that wears off in the last 60 pages with the revealing of the so called reality). "

" Sort of fizzled out at the end for me, but reads like a good Twilight Zone episode. I found myself wondering how much of this story inspired movies like The Matrix. Overall I liked it. It was a solid 4 until the last few chapters. "

" Great story, like almost all of his; this time the writing didn't get in the way of enjoying the story. "

" Philip Dick was always thought-provoking! What is reality, and what isn't? He'll take you for a ride... "

" Although this book is, like most of Dick's work, terribly plotted and poorly written, its characters undeveloped, I rather liked it for the outrageous premise. As ever, the theme is that things are not as they seem and the hero is, but for a single talent, much like you or me. "

" Another very powerful exploration into sanity/insanity, very well written. "

" The slow beginning is obligatory to achieve the reward. That payoff is one othe best last fifty (or so) pages of fiction I have read in a while. "

" This is perhaps my favorite book by one of my favorite authors. It is simultaneously one of his most coherent, intriguing, and whacked-out plots. "