Book Review: The Collected Stories Of Philip K. Dick (Volume IV)

Book Review: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Volume IV)

My Review in a Tweet:

Probably the weakest I've read so far, this time the author decides to waddle in the themes of AI, self-replicating machines, time paradoxes and the Ever Looming Threat of the Unkown. Some spare gems but most tales are forgettable.

My Full Review:

I don't have much to add or say about Philip K Dick's short stories that I haven't said about the previous three volumes, so I'll just leave my ranking of the stories of this tome:

Captive Market: the ultime capitalist dystopia.

The Minority Report: a wholly different story from the movie they made afterwards, I like the author's approach a lot better.

The Mold of Yancy: I feel this could be the future of political discussion in a world of AI and stronger soft power of the nations.

Explorers We: this felt very Bradburyan, I really liked it.

If There Were No Benny Cemoli: fake news and manipulation in the year of the Lord 1963 (?

Autofac

The Unreconstructed M

Oh, to Be a Blobel!

Recall Mechanism

War Game

Orpheus with Clay Feet

Novelty Act

Waterspider

What the Dead Men Say: I skipped this one actually because it was very boring.

Service Call

Stand-by

What'll We Do with Ragland Park?

The Days of Perky Pat

Aside from that, I'd say this volume is a

5.5/10.

My other 2024 readings.

Role model and gym goal

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Book Review: Selección de poemas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

My Review in a Tweet:

I can't be impartial with Bécquer, he's a central poet in one of the canon events of my life (my first love). Luckily, I could still enjoy his Rhymes, and I read for the first time his Literary Letters and his Legends (which some read like horror stories).

My Full Review:

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is probably the first poet I read attentively, and I have loved him ever since I read his Rhymes for the first time. I gifted my copy because I was young and innocent, so I had to buy this book again.

Fortunately, this anthology includes not only his Rhymes, which I read again with great pleasure, but also his Literary Letters to a Woman and his Legends (each marked with a spanish city or theme).

Becquer fits perfectly in this romantic idea of poets, a brilliant and tortured genius, whose poems fill an intrincated metric and respect the rhyme while doing so. His themes also reflect this pinning, this painful way of experimenting romantic feelings, of tragic love.

The Literary Letters and the Symphonic Introduction of his Rhymes are wonderful works of poetic prose, blooming with beautiful allegories and metaphors, exuding such a love for Poetry itself you find yourself tempted to pick up a pen and follow in vain the steps of this bard.

I can't say much more other than restating my love for this author and his works: Becquer remains a core author of my taste in poetry in particular and literature in general.

My other 2024 readings.

Besos

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