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One of my all-time favorite PKD novels. This is one of those books that gets more rich and rewarding with every re-read--a true mark of a classic masterpiece, in my experience.

The first time I read it, many years ago, it struck me as only slightly interesting; the second time, a year or so, it impressed me a lot better, but still seemed almost boring compared to Dick's other, more well-known, far-out sci-fi masterpieces; and now, having read it a third time all the way through, I am certain it is Dick's most mature novel, and a wonderful "swan song" of sorts from him. True, it may lack the sci-fi far-out-ness of many of his other works--in a lot of ways, it is just a great novel in the classic "novel" sense, and one of his least "sci-fi" books--but he really makes the characters come alive, especially Angel Archer, the narrator. He himself had told how he felt like he was actually WITH the character, while writing her, and was deeply grieved to be finished with her, when he finished this book. (I thought that was touching and nice, when I read that, but this time around, reading this book through, I know exactly what he meant; I too felt her company and presence, and now that I've finished reading it again, I too miss her ongoing presence, which reading this book gives you. She is truly an exceptional character... and "she's smarter than I am," Dick had claimed!

This book contains PKD's most mature, actual WRITING-skills. Many readers have observed that, while his ideas have often been first-rate and amazing, his actual prose-style has often seemed rushed, plain, or mediocre. That is definitely not true of this book! His characters come alive, his descriptions and details are simply amazingly articulate and well-written.


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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Philip K Dick 9780679734444 Books Reviews

The apotheosis of Dick's madness and religious views, marvelous and suave.
--So 'believably written'--outlandish/stimulating ideas anchored in literate articulate but fallible-foibled characters who jump off the page with roman-a-clef warmbloodedness, this was PKD's 1st book to not bother me the 'Sci-fi' angle and cutely-named characters in previous attempted reads proved 'soft-off'ers, but this! -One of the best novels I've ever read...prescient, compassionate, unpredictable, rich! --The poor genius! who like Kerouac must be guffawing major-league en el otro lado...
The VALIS trilogy, of which this book is the "conclusion", is definitely one of my favorites, because the author, PKD, introduces such mind-bending concepts. If you have read the previous two books in this trilogy, you would already be expecting to go through half of the book without any obvious connection to the other two, and this book is no exception. It is very strange, and very interesting. It is classic Philip K. Dick. Each book stands well alone, but I would recommend all three of them. Valis and The Divine Invasion A Novel are the other two books.
Classic PKD, can't beat it
Definitely a Top-5 PKD story. The master of consensus reality strikes again. Echoes, or is echoed by, Sheldon Kopp's If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him.

Just come for the sandwiches.
This book reads weirdly when you have a friend that calls himself a bishop who also went looking for the Jesus shroom.
It's a really nice take on the ailments of the mind and how it tries to make sense of the world.
PKD at his best The story of renaissance man Tim Archer, ex-lawyer, ex-alcoholic, current Episcopalian Bishop and Civil Rights activists' leader, seeker of the true religion, occultist. The story of his personal tragedies, eventual downfall, and - transmigration - is taking place mainly in Northern California and is narrated by Angel Archer, his daughter in law, or rather, as a consequence of the events unfolding, the widow of his son. Angel is depressed about the suicide of her husband, her best friend who was also Tim Archer's lover, and the accidental (is there really anything accidental, random in a PKD novel?) death of Bishop Tim Archer in the Israeli desert. Still, she is fascinated and moved by what she experienced (believed to have experienced?), and that fascination rubs of on the reader I read this 250 page novel in only two settings.
What makes PKD (Philip K. Dick) such a fantastic writer, in my eyes, is his ability to transport his unusual ideas about the very vague substance of reality in such a casual way; There is no dry lecture about the constructivist nature of reality, weighted with dry philosophical terms and sentences with unnecessarily complicated grammar. Instead, one reads a dinner conversation which within a few sentences drifts from small talk about the menu to philosophy of the mind, the occult, and back to the food on the table. There is no dumbing down of ideas or insights, in contrast, the fact that PKD's ideas are articulated by different people at different times makes it harder to figure out what he really means. But the fact that these ideas are packed into an extremely well written novel featuring characters, whom somewhat alternatively minded contemporaries can probably relate to, predigests them nicely. At the end of the book one ends up not only understanding how PKD thinks that "real" is a very relative term, and how he speculates that information can travel between minds in ways unbeknown to modern man; one also understands how it must FEEL to be subjected to bouts of reality dissolution. These are the things he brilliantly accomplishes to communicate in "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer".
One of my all-time favorite PKD novels. This is one of those books that gets more rich and rewarding with every re-read--a true mark of a classic masterpiece, in my experience.

The first time I read it, many years ago, it struck me as only slightly interesting; the second time, a year or so, it impressed me a lot better, but still seemed almost boring compared to Dick's other, more well-known, far-out sci-fi masterpieces; and now, having read it a third time all the way through, I am certain it is Dick's most mature novel, and a wonderful "swan song" of sorts from him. True, it may lack the sci-fi far-out-ness of many of his other works--in a lot of ways, it is just a great novel in the classic "novel" sense, and one of his least "sci-fi" books--but he really makes the characters come alive, especially Angel Archer, the narrator. He himself had told how he felt like he was actually WITH the character, while writing her, and was deeply grieved to be finished with her, when he finished this book. (I thought that was touching and nice, when I read that, but this time around, reading this book through, I know exactly what he meant; I too felt her company and presence, and now that I've finished reading it again, I too miss her ongoing presence, which reading this book gives you. She is truly an exceptional character... and "she's smarter than I am," Dick had claimed!

This book contains PKD's most mature, actual WRITING-skills. Many readers have observed that, while his ideas have often been first-rate and amazing, his actual prose-style has often seemed rushed, plain, or mediocre. That is definitely not true of this book! His characters come alive, his descriptions and details are simply amazingly articulate and well-written.