content: I love much of PKD's writing, but this is just bad. There's very little story at all, and instead the bulk of the book is just incoherent religious ramblings and aimless political paranoia, apparently the product of PKD's deteriorating mental state after years of heavy amphetamine abuse. Other books from around this time in his life I've read (or I've tried to read but given up on) are similarly terrible, and I don't why I thought another take on the whole Valis nonsense would be better when the book VALIS itself is pretty much unreadable.