Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (2006, Paperback)

This is an awesome mind trip of a book. Based on a future gone mad with a drug called "substance d" and with the help of the government, nobody trusts anybody. This book has so many original ideas, characters, and a really weird plotline. This book tries to give the reader a perception of drug use and abuse and its effects on the mind, friends, family, and personal life. If this book is anything at all it is an anti-drug book, created in the memory of all of those still lost and never found, the casualties of the 60's, and 70's. It's really sad in my opinion, how so many are still close enough to touch, feel, and see, but are too far away to ever step back through the door they created. The mind is a fragile thing, and once the circuits are fried there's no coming back.

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Philip K. Dick