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A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.
Eric P. Nash, reviewing Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? For the New York Times in 1968.
“Which is better, the book or the movie?” It’s a question friends ask one another, and is at least as old as cinema. In all probability, it is a revised, post-cinema version of “book or theatre-play?” It’s always rewarding to see a favorite book translated onto the silver screen, but it is also a pleasure to work backwards, should you happen to see the film before you read the book. (more…)
