Books

AK Anne Klein Women’s Automatic Silver-Tone Sport Watch with a Orange Rubber Strap #108451SVOR I like a big watch face, but this one was too big – wishing tree33 – virginia
I liked the skeleton watch look of this watch, it has the Anne Klein logo on it but it is hard to see. I like large watches, but this one, was just Too big. The orange plastic band is a fun color, but not comfortable. I think if I have a normal sized women’s wrist from what I can tell : ) but it was just too large of a face.
AK Anne Klein: 108451SVOR This distinctive and sophisticated women’s automatic watch from the AK Anne Klein collection sports a unique, orange rubber band. Also featuring a round, mixed metal case, metal bezel, and silver tone dial, this timepiece gives your signature look a fashionable, contemporary edge. A window that shows off all the precisely crafted mechanisms inside, a sweeping orange second hand, detailed silver-tone hour and minute hands, and silver-tone stick indices marking each hour complete the dramatic face, which is protected by a mineral crystal. This watch is water resistant to 99 feet and is protected by a limited-lifetime warranty.
AK Anne Klein Women’s Automatic Silver-Tone Sport Watch with a Orange Rubber Strap #108451SVOR

Lev00640 Levi’s Carpenter Pant, Relaxed Straight, Antique Tint, 30W x 30L Awesome jeans they may wear out over time like any other clothes but it all depends on how you wash them or in how you wear them. They have the perfect spots for a cell phone on the middle right leg along with a pack of 5 Gum. On the left middle leg you also have that 5 Gum option as the pack is just the right size to cram in the pocket. The other pockets are big enough to hold standard items. The rear may wear out quickly where the pockets meet on the middle of the pants, I think it is due to the thickness there but a patch can fix all that quickly. Have only had this happen over about 9 to 12 months (one pair) and when the pocket got snaged on a chair with slits in it for the seat. Overall they are the only type of Jeans I wear or recommend. The space for the croch is just right most days and when sitting in a chair for a while not terrbile pinching like with some other styles. Levi’s: Levi’s gives the utilitarian carpenter jean a stylin’ update with an antique tint finish and a comfortable loose fit. Front slash pockets, side tool pockets and back patch pockets with signature stitching. Triple topstitching along outseam and back yoke. Lev00640 Levi’s Carpenter Pant, Relaxed Straight, Antique Tint, 30W x 30L

• Levi’s Men’s Cargo Pant
• Levi’s Men’s Silver Tab Baggy Jean
• Lee Men’s Carpenter Jean
• Levi’s Men’s 569 Loose Straight Jean
• Levi’s Men’s Silvertab Loose Fit Jean

The Game-players of Titan (Voyager Classics) Pages missing and out of order – Darrell R. Henriksenpaul – Mpls/St. Paul
The book sucked. Pages were missing or out of order. I returned one and the replacement was the same way. I just gave up after that.
Typical 60s PKD–and that’s a good thing – Doug Mackey – Fairfield, IA USA
In criticial estimation, The Game Players of Titan suffers by comparison with Dick’s masterpieces The Man in the High Castle, Martian Time-Slip, and Dr. Bloodmoney, also written in the early 1960s, because it does not have their serious themes or strong sociological dimension. Nevertheless, this book partakes of the brilliance of the overall concept that runs through Dick’s work in this period. What’s more, it is a very funny novel. The vugs, whose natural form is that of amorphous, gelatinous blobs, have occupied Earth after winning a war in which humanity nearly managed to sterilize itself through radiation exposure. Vugs have the capability of controlling humans’ minds or simulating their form, behavior, and memories, often taking names such as U. S. Cummings and E. B. Black. The plot revolves around the game of Bluff, which is somewhat akin to Monopoly, which is used to decide mates and property rights. The plot culminates with an interspecies game of Bluff between the humans and vugs, who have the advantage of psychokinetic powers, which they use to change the values of the cards as they play. There are mind-altering drugs, psychosis, talking cars, and crazy humor. In short, a feast for the Dick fan.
Mostly great – alchemist42 – Athens, GA United States
The Earth has been taken over by the Vugs and humanity is reduced to gambling for money, property, and marriages. Players who are good at the Game (which is some wierd combination of poker and monopoly) get the chance to reproduce and live in the lap of luxury. The story follows the usual PKD lines (if the word usual can ever truly be applied to him!). We have paranoia, astral teleportation, strange aliens, pre-cogs -trying to cheat in the Game- and a whole lot of sarcastic humour.

There are also the usual PKD failings, lack of characterization and long bits of non-plot-related ramblings. Of course, anyone who is familiar with his work will know that these are not reasons to avoid the book. He more than makes up for any deficiency by sheer genius and imagination.

But the main reason to read this book comes toward the end (so I won’t spoil it by telling you all about it) where you, the reader, can see how the vugs view the humans. I think this is the best piece of Dick’s writing that I have ever read. These few pages are worth the book’s price alone.

This is early PKD, and I recommend it to any fans out there. It is a fast read, and it gives you plenty to think about. If you are new to this brilliant author, I would start somewhere else, though. Perhaps with some of his more accessible works, like Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
: Philip K Dick’s classic dystopian novel set in the future where the remaining human survivors on Earth must gamble for their future with aliens from Titan, one of the moons circling Saturn. Roaming the pristine landscape of Earth, cared for by machines and aliens, the few remaining humans alive since the war with Titan play Bluff, allowing them to win or lose property and also form new marriages in order to maximise the remote chance some pairings will produce a child. When Pete Garden, a particularly suicidal member of the Pretty Blue Fox game-playing group, loses his current wife and his deed to Berkeley, he stumbles upon a far bigger, more sinister version of the game. The telepathic, slug-like Vugs of Titan are the players and at stake is the Earth itself. The Game-Players of Titan is a brilliantly conceived vision of a future dystopia, full of imaginative detail, moments of pure humour and thought-provoking musings on the nature of perception, as the seemingly straightforward narrative soon turns into a tumultuous nightmare of delusion, precognition and conspiracy.
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