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In this book Phillip K. Dick really captures the world of druggies, there are many themes in this novel that closely relate to that. Big ongoing themes in the story are paranoia, the confusion of reality and fantasy and conspiracies.
There is a lot of blurriness in this novel, I found myself vaguely confuses at some times which is probably what the author tried to do. It was just the way it was written that made the book seem like one big blur, which helped me relate to the protagonist, especially towards the end of the book, he became very confused to what was real or not, because of his drug use. And in the beginning, when Jerry thinks there are bugs everywhere. When in reality there are no bugs at all and his brain just made them up.
Also all the strange theories they come up with (which are all crap) and they think all of it’s true.
Another big theme in this book, and a trademark of Philip K. Dick is paranoia, which really comes together with the blurriness and confusion, because if you don’t know what’s going on, you get paranoid and think everything is out to get you. Everyone in this book has that way of thinking. And you start to to, because you don’t really know who is who anymore. I got that since the beginning of the story, but it got worse towards the end. Especially when the protagonists two roles come apart and he can’t tell them apart anymore. And the fact that the protagonist has three different names throughout the book doesn’t really help the confusion either.
It was a good book, for the first time I liked the confusion and vagueness, it really went well with the story and the themes also really interested me.