25%: 7.25

Not bad, but seems very derivative. Kafka's The Trial set in one of Dick's dystopian futures.

Possible tie-in w/ the characters/setting of Bladerunner, namely the evangelical tele-personality (this story's protagonist) who loses his identity and struggles to fit into the world as a no-one in the authoritarian city-scape.

How apropos that he cannot get his license back, and the government hates him: "SO TRUE"

Once they notice you, Jason realized, they never completely close the file. You can never get back your anonymity. It is vital not to be noticed in the first place. But I have been.

TRUE

50%: 7.75

The book has all of the sudden become immensely more philosophical. A dialogue between two characters we only sort of care about – those who are pursuing the protagonist Jason, about love, grief, death has cpativated me.

final: 6.75

hmmm, I didn't love the pharma ex machina explanation of the premise of the whole plot – but I get that the whole freaky friday thing is supposed to be secondary to the actual plot itself.

Perhaps more interesting than the book itself is this speech by Dick, never delivered, about FMTtPS.

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