Talk:Ubik

message: I removed from the summary the mention that Joe Chip was against having Pat Conley in the group of agents, since the book states the opposite:
"Runciter pondered moodily. "Joe thinks she's dangerous. I don't know why."
"Did you ask him why?"
Runciter said, "He mumbled, the way he always does. He never has reasons, just hunches. On the other hand, he wants to include her(Pat Conley) in the Mick operation"".
I think the summary needs to take into account the final pages, in which Runciter discovers his coins to be changing face (in an obvious parallel to what happened to Chip), in as much as this implies that Runciter is himself mistaken about being alive and not in a half-life, and possibly wired into the group as well. --maru   (talk)  contribs 03:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further deception 

message: The plot synopsis reads like a teaser from a book cover.  It sounds like it is trying to avoid giving away what happens in the novel.  This is an encyclopedia and it has to talk about what actually happens, including the ending and all surprising plot twists.  I haven't read the book, so I can't do this myself. --24.86.252.26 17:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot synopsis inadequate 

message: I recall reading an interview with Bret Easton Ellis wherein he referred to the bizarre clothes worn by the characters in "American Psycho" as his own invention.  If you haven't read the novel, "American Psycho" details the life of a serial killer (or imagined serial killer), Patrick Bateman.  It seems to me the two books have a lot in common, and many of the ideas Ellis takes credit for appear in Ubik, which appeared at least twenty years earlier!
--210.240.107.30 08:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You should see what they wear in "The Zap Gun"! Wierdo clothes are something PKD used to fill paragraphs, I think. They're irrelevant to the plot, often you get several characters in turn being described in what looks like an attempt by PKD to repeatedly outdo himself in thinking up ludicrous outfits. 188.29.165.158 (talk) 02:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is This Worth Mentioning/Exploring? 

message: Hardly B without any referencing to the article. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 09:45, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: B?

message: There are many useless links in the article to milk, fact and such. I am going to remove them, because they are a distraction. --CyHawk (talk) 18:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Over]][[wiki]]fication 

message: I've added another interpretation of the book, becaue I think that te other was good, but a little simple.
A part of this, i have somthing to say to all, is that when at te beggining one woman of the Runciter's moon group dream about Bill and Matt, and at the end of the book Joe says to the bad guy:What's your name? and the guy says: Sometimes people call me Bill, sometimes Mat, but my name is... I think that this is one of most important details of the book, like the joe's coin in Runciter's bag.
Can someone correct the text that I've added at the interpretation? I'm not an English expert.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.43.21.36 (talk) 13:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed your text completely, it appeared to be a little bit of original research. WikiuserNI (talk) 15:39, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpretation is too simple 

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