I just saw Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. You would think Linklater, of all people, might be best positioned to adapt the obsessively wordy Dick. (I was also hoping Linklater would preserve the ’70s feel of the book
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We give money to nations... and then cheat them out of it? Wow. That didn't work in Niger. Western powers dumped 4 billion USD into that country and it was almost all stolen. By the president of Niger (currently AWOL). Halliburton never had a chance to steal it for themselves. How sad.
And really… the NSA? The pocket-protected code hackers and phreaks of the NSA engaged in actual skullduggery? Bwahahaha!
You should watch Other People's Money, the real story Oliver Stone messed up in Wall Street. It's a hoot, with the best boardroom duel in any movie, ever.
Or the book A Man Called Intrepid: an account of the very real intelligence operations (written as a fictional biography to obscure the real sources of the material) that drew the U.S. into WWII. History has never produced so devious a President as Franklin Roosevelt.
Dick… lousy prose stylist. Very stiff. But some of his books are conceptual classics, he had a fine eye for characterization, and nothing he wrote is better than ASD.
Euw. Socialism makes me break out in a rash. Besides, it sounds like another Scott Thomas Beauchamp fable: the narrative is right but the facts are wrong. I prefer my fiction labeled as such.
We give money to nations... and then cheat them out of it? Wow. That didn't work in Niger. Western powers dumped 4 billion USD into that country and it was almost all stolen. By the president of Niger (currently AWOL). Halliburton never had a chance to steal it for themselves. How sad.
And really… the NSA? The pocket-protected code hackers and phreaks of the NSA engaged in actual skullduggery? Bwahahaha!
You should watch Other People's Money, the real story Oliver Stone messed up in Wall Street. It's a hoot, with the best boardroom duel in any movie, ever.
Or the book A Man Called Intrepid: an account of the very real intelligence operations (written as a fictional biography to obscure the real sources of the material) that drew the U.S. into WWII. History has never produced so devious a President as Franklin Roosevelt.
Dick… lousy prose stylist. Very stiff. But some of his books are conceptual classics, he had a fine eye for characterization, and nothing he wrote is better than ASD.
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