Galactic Pot-Healer
I love to read, so I figured having a book learnin’ section of this blog site would be nice. I don’t plan on writing reviews, exactly, but maybe to record a thought or two for each book. Sometimes my impressions of what I read disappear with time, like waking from a dream and starting the process of forgetting.
My so-called “recommended reading” list is here, but any comments I make will be in this blog.
Right now I am reading Galactic Pot-Healer by sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick. It’s about a ceramics repair man, not a proponent of medical marijuana as I suspected before reading the book. I am a huge Dick fan, but I am careful about what company I admit that in. These are bigotted times.
It was curious to note that one French translation of the book didn’t even attempt to recreate the title as Dick intended. Here it’s “Cathedral Healer”! There is a cathedral prominent in the novel, but c’mon.
