And if I tried, would I judge by how well executed and/or polished the finished novel is (i.e. I'm not sure if can distinguish objectively between his best novels or my favorites. Spiritual overlays aside, Transmigration and Divine Invasion are unconnected and can be read separately. All those novels share a spiritual theme, but even Dick himself offered contradictory opinions on whether Transmigration was actually what he considered the third installment of the so-called VALIS trilogy (what might actually have been merely a publishing ploy anyway), or whether The Owl in Daylight would have been the third volume. I did read The Divine Invasion first, but rather because I pushed back reading Transmigration. But maybe I should add that I worked on (but never finished) a PhD thesis on PKD, so I read his novels of the 1960s at least four times each - and in that decade alone twenty of his novels were published. Except for a few early novels of his so-called apprenticeship period, I really enjoyed his writing - no matter if flawed or masterpiece. I wish he would have taken a little more humorous approach, like Robert Anton Wilson in Illuminatus! and Cosmic Trigger.Ĭuriously, Dick's style never bothered me. Personally, I don't dabble in esoteric beliefs, but reading about them can be very entertaining.
Transmigration may be his best novel concerning his writing and aesthetic. It is a very touchign mainstream novel and proves your observation that Dick was bound to gain experience in writing after a few dozen novels. Since there is no review of The Transmigration of Timothy Archer yet, I guess you haven't read it yet.
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