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  • Gather Yourselves Together

  • By: Philip K. Dick
  • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
  • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Gather Yourselves Together

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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Publisher's summary

Gather Yourselves Together is one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest novels, written when he was just 24 years old. It tells the story of three American workers left behind in China by their employer, biding their time as the Communists advance. As they while away the days, both the young and naïve Carl Fitter and the older and worldly Verne Tildon vie for the affections of Barbara Mahler, a woman who may not be as tough-as-nails as she acts. But Carl’s innocence and Verne’s boorishness could end up driving Barbara away from both.

©1994 The estate of Philip K. Dick (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
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Can’t quite put my finger on it, but…

… it feels like there’s something missing here. A twist. An alien. An unexpected zoom-out to reveal this actually happening on a space station or after a global catastrophe.

Well, it’s a Philip K Dick novel - but not a science fiction. It is really well written. It’s not uninteresting.

But most readers will come into this from the science fiction background - stories or novels. And after reading / listening to this, you realize, those twists, ideas, surprises are really what lifted PKD from a good writer who’d almost certainly remained unknown - to as what he is known for today.

Therefore, this is hard to evaluate. Independent of he stars given, I’d still recommend it to any PKD reader (completists anyway), because it makes it clearer where his genius lay.

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It is better than I expected

It is better than I expected it to be. It is a record of sad unhappy lives and probably an expression of the authors own unhappy relationship problems.

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