This audio version of a classic book by a classic author wound up in my CD player because I accidentally noticed it on the shelf at the library right next to Blade Runner (which presumably is just Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? rebranded for the anniversary of the film). Anyway, I thought I'd take another journey into the work of PKD, and what I found was, for me, a mixed bag. I was immediately plunged into the world of the drug addict, which as the generally pretty straight-laced type made me feel more than a little squeamish; at the same time I chuckled at the weird, random things the characters said and did. I was offended by the profanity, but I was drawn to the humanity of the characters. I relished the weirdness of the passages where Bob/Fred/Bruce is interrupted in the middle of a thought or sentence by the other side of his brain rattling off things in German (the first time it happened it was right at a track break in the CD; I thought I had a defective disc!) The ending is unexpectedly redemptive, though I'm not sure I would call it a "happy" ending, and it does still leave things hanging. It's certainly a scary vision of the drug culture from someone who was in the middle of it in the 60s; fortunately when 1994 actually arrived, it wasn't quite as steeped in illegal pharmaceuticals as the 1994 in the novel. I found the future/present/past nature of the story written in 1977 about a future which is now the past a bit disorienting, but in a strange way it unintentionally serves the same purpose as the German passages, taking you into the muddled mind of the drug addict. 
 I found a lot of things to like about the book, but I also found that it left me a bit depressed at the decay of the characters I had begun to care about. I'm glad to have read it, but I seriously doubt I'll ever read it again.