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Title: Don't judge PKD by this one
Review: Try to read "Radio Free Albemuth" and you'll need no further explanation of why it wasn't published while he was alive. Even by the slapdash standards of an unfortunately large part of Dick's writing, this is very, very bad. Don't waste your time on it -- not when you have "Man in the High Castle" and "A Scanner Darkly," among others, to choose from. All writers have drafts and manuscripts that serve their purpose of getting the brain going; they make interesting footnotes for scholars and groupies, and they churn out royalties for literary estates, but they don't make literature. This one is only a dry run for "Valis," a well-edited and gripping story that best shows the later Dick.
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