Drug Culture

Junky Book Cover

Junky

Burroughs surely deserves more credit as a guerilla ethnographer than a literary author.

The Stooges - Fun House Cover

Fun House

Fun House actualized the claims that rock ‘n’ roll was the devil’s music. As crystal-clear a death knell of the utopian-minded 1960s as anything.

Post Office Book Cover

Post Office

There’s plenty of other hippie/stoner/loner/existentialist/nihilist literature with more substance than this.

Philip K. Dick Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Book Cover

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

If taken at face value as a throwaway PKD meditation on the nature of reality it is adequate. Dick’s novels are always about ideas. Not sentence construction, dialogue, pacing, or narrative cohesion.

Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Book Cover

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Dick’s straightforward and decidedly unpoetic prose is remarkably effective at disorienting the reader, as well as inducing unease.