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"Villa America" by Liza Klaussmann
A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. Learn more | See related books
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Hardcover: 2800 pages
Publisher: Library of America; Slp edition (October 15, 2009)
These are wonderful novels in a first class collector's set. I would award 5 stars except that, sadly, volume 1 of my set has some pages missing from the first novel ("The Man in the High Castle"). These are pages 159 to 174 inclusive (pages 158 and 175 face each other), so you should check your edition carefully when you receive it to ensure that you are not similarly disadvantaged.
Amazon has offered to replace the set, but as this requires me to post the entire collection back from Australia I have instead decided to live with the missing pages and accept Amazon's alternative offer of a 20% refund.
I discovered the defect when actually reading "The Man in the High Castle", so you can imagine my frustration and annoyance when I hit the missing pages. The novels are printed on good quality fine paper, so it is difficult to flick through the pages and catch every one to check for further omissions. I think the rest of my volume 1 and volumes 2 and 3 are OK, but I guess I will not know for certain until I have finished reading all 13 novels! Fingers crossed!
Defect apart, I would heartily recommend this set to all SF fans, and others.
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253 of 292 people found the following review helpful
SF is today gaining more and more respectability among serious readers and academic literary critics. Although there are a handful of stories from the pulp era of the twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties, there were few stories that would stand up to any kind of literary analysis and virtually no novels that would. The so-called Big Three of the forties and fifties - Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke - shock serious readers today coming to them for the first time. They were not only not good writers by mainstream criteria, they were actively bad writers. This is not to say that there weren't some good ideas here and there (Asimov's Foundation series or Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END or Rama novels are often interesting), but that the prose is almost always atrocious, the characters stock and uninteresting, and the stories and novels completely lacking in literary excellence. This was intentional. Let me repeat that: the books and stories were intentionally strove to not be good literature. Why? Because many key figures in the early days of SF, like the enormously influential editor John W. Campbell Jr., explicitly stated that SF was not going to be about character and well-honed prose; it was supposed to be about "neat ideas." The goal was to explore scientific ideas through their depiction of plausible scenarios of the future. Campbell felt that good writing would actually detract from exploring these ideas. This conception of SF has not completely disappeared among fans, though the vast majority of today's writers strive to achieve a degree of excellence unheard of in the days of the pulps.
If you are reading this review then chances are that you are either already a PKD fan, or you may be considering purchasing this as a gift for someone who is. If you are new to PKD then I highly recommend starting with the PHILIP K DICK READER, which is an excellent collection of short stories, from there I'd probably read one of his novels such as THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE or DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (avoid books like VALIS for now, though it is a fantastic book, it certainly helps to be well-familiar with Dick's style before diving into this one). If you find that you just can't get enough PKD, then it might be a good idea to go ahead and purchase this whole collection.
I'm not going to review each of the books in this collection because you probably already know if you are going to enjoy this or not, instead I'm going to review the collection as a whole, as well as the quality of the materials.
This is the first collection of novels I own which are published by the Library of America and I couldn't be more overjoyed with the quality of the materials. These books are designed to last for generations, so the binding, cover and acid free paper all all very high quality. I've seen reviews around the net that complain, saying the protective covers are `ugly', but I disagree. They are minimalist, and I like that. These volumes use bible style paper, which give each book a nice, tight form-factor. The pages are very thin and crisp. The largest volume, which is roughly 1150 pages total, is about the same thickness as a typical 650 page mass-market paperback. These volumes ooze quality.
The Library of America absolutely nailed it when it came to selecting some of his greatest works.Read more ›
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
I love P.K. Dick. When i was much younger I had a copy of "Androids" handed too me and I fell in love. Dick was writing cyberpunk before Neuromancer was a gleam in anyone's eyes. His mixture of science fiction and trancendentialism allows him to create stories where charachters truely morph and grow (or not... Decker) and become something that is bigger than the words that tell their story. There is no wonder at all that Dick has inspired more movies than any other sci-fi author.
These particular volumes are the perfect addition to a library. They really contain the main portions of Dick's work. Perfectly chosen to span his career. You not only get the early works that make for good movies such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the middle paranoid writings finishing in A Scanner Darkley into the late trancendential novels with my personal favorite, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Not only are each of the individual works fantastic but the collection lets you get a great overview of the author's life work.
The volumes themselves are on a light, almost bible like paper that feels fantastic when turning pages. A very solid hardbound book with a ribbon bookmark. High quality and well done without being overdone. I plan on getting several of my other favorite american authors in this series's collection to have on hand.
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