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From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu> Subject: (urth) PKD a hack? Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:10:14 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 Patri10629@aol.com wrote: > And let me be frank. No, really frank. Read TIMEQUAKE. Read THE THREE > STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and Look me in the eye and tell me that's > hackwork and I'll buy you a beer. Or read the MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. There is some really beautiful prose in that novel. I read it right after _Little, Big_, so I'm not just talking relatively beautiful prose, or "pretty good for a hack" prose. It was my first Dick novel and I was astounded. I said to myself, "I thought Dick was just a mess of wacky drug-induced paranoia...no one ever told me he *wrote* so well!" -Rostrum *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/