Review on Palmer Eldritch and Start of Heinlein

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is simply about the product Can-D.  Can-D is a drug mainly used by the people of Mars to deal with the horrid boredom that exists with the conditions of colonization.  People living in small collective hovels take this drug, discorporate, and become new individuals.  However, the synopsis given and this is probably the biggest issue I have with the book, is not what it sets out to be.  The tag line was that a person wakes up to a new world and finds a note in which the world he inhabits isn't real, and it would seem it would be about the story of that man finding reality.  This is not the case.  The book is about the idea of leaving identity, reincarnation, drug states, monopolies, time-space adjustments, God, religion, and government scandal. Philip K. Dick constantly makes me question what it means to think about the world, and he does it again with the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.  Nothing I thought would be there was, and every single notion I had coming into the book was dissipated.  I would suggest highly for anyone to read this book.  It starts out slow that builds intensity over time, though it gets a bit awkward in the fastest part.  During the climax, the wording changes and perspective alters weirdly between time and between planets.  The only other issue would be Philip K. Dick's fascination with "pre-cogs" (future tellers) feels more like a stand-in rather than any plot device, and doesn't really do anything to the other all story.  Besides that, I found it a wonderful read that everyone should check out.

Now to continue my book week special, I'll try to finish Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky.  The Synopsis in the back reads "It was just a test...just a test...just a tests, but something had gone wrong.  Terribly wrong.  what was to have ben a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare.  Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth...at the other end of the tunnel in the sky.  The small group of young me and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own...a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive!".  Sounds interesting, but I'm kind of worried it's going to be too obvious or simple.  However, time to hope for the best.  Heinlein is considered one the three greats of science fiction, which include Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and the current author Heinlein.  This is going to be another adventure...HAVE A GOOD READING WEEK.