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Book Review of Valis (Valis, Bk 1)

Valis (Valis, Bk 1)
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I really love some of Philip K. Dick's other books, but I just could not maintain interest in this one. It is described, accurately, on the back cover as a "disorienting and bleakly funny work about a schizophrenic hero...the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime." It is the beginning of a trio of novels.