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Ubik by Philip K. Dick
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bookshelves: donalds-are-trumps, science-fiction, parody-homage
Read 2 times. Last read January 1, 1973.

Hoping to appeal to black voters while retaining the support of the KKK? Use Trump!

Need to balance the budget while increasing military spending and reducing taxes? Trump will do it!

Trying to combine total openness with complete secrecy? Trump makes it simple!

Looking to stand up to foreign aggressors while fawning all over Vladimir Putin? It's possible with Trump!

If you require a woman-friendly message that stars Roger Ailes... Trump's the answer!

Want to crush ISIS without sending more troops to the Middle East? Trump's got a secret plan!

Tired of the law of the excluded middle and prefer 2 + 2 to make 5? With Trump, no problem!

Vote Trump!
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Reading Progress

Finished Reading (Other Paperback Edition)
Started Reading
January 1, 1973 – Finished Reading
February 13, 2009 – Shelved
September 15, 2016 – Shelved (Other Paperback Edition)
September 15, 2016 – Shelved as: donalds-are-trumps (Other Paperback Edition)
September 15, 2016 – Shelved as: linguistics-and-... (Other Paperback Edition)
September 15, 2016 – Shelved as: science-fiction (Other Paperback Edition)
September 15, 2016 – Shelved as: donalds-are-trumps
September 15, 2016 – Shelved as: science-fiction
September 15, 2016 – Shelved as: parody-homage

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Brandon Hey Manny,
Why only two stars?


message 2: by Manny (last edited Sep 15, 2016 03:34AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Manny Use Trump! It'll improve those lackluster star ratings.


Yulia Tsinko No, seriously, why?


Manny Because I want Lyin' Crooked Donald to Make America Great Again!


message 5: by Jim (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jim Breaking news!

The Donald tries a new tactic to woo black voters by admitting that Obama is a citizen:




Manny Have people think you've admitted that Obama is a citizen without actually saying it, while pinning the blame for birtherism on Hillary and taking credit for exposing her! With Trump, it's as easy as one two three!


message 7: by Manny (last edited Sep 16, 2016 04:25AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Manny By the way, did you notice how the US was humiliated once more this week? After miserably leading the medal table at the Olympic Games, they also had to hang their heads in shame when they picked up the gold at the Chess Olympiad for the first time since 1937. But soon, under the leadership of Comrade Trump, they will be winning again!


Glenn Russell Tired of the law of the excluded middle and prefer 2 + 2 to make 5? -------- I can just see the TV campaign ads for Don using this catchphrase.


message 9: by Jim (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jim Manny wrote: "By the way, did you notice how the US was humiliated once more this week? After miserably leading the medal table at the Olympic Games, they also had to hang their heads in shame when they picked u..."

Winning is losing
War is peace
Trump is your only hope...


message 10: by Manny (last edited Sep 16, 2016 04:32AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Manny Glenn wrote: "Tired of the law of the excluded middle and prefer 2 + 2 to make 5? -------- I can just see the TV campaign ads for Don using this catchphrase."

I tried to make it snappy and catchy, and without wanting to boast I think I succeeded. My friends tell me that a bright future as an ad exec awaits me. I do my best to look suitably modest.


message 11: by Manny (last edited Sep 16, 2016 04:35AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Manny Jim wrote: "Winning is losing
War is peace
Trump is your only hope... "


I love the sequences from the Trump rallies where they do the Two Minutes Hate skit and everyone ironically yells "Lock her up!" and "Kill the bitch!" I didn't know there were so many Orwell fans out there.


message 12: by Jim (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jim Manny wrote: "Jim wrote: "Winning is losing
War is peace
Trump is your only hope... "

I love the sequences from the Trump rallies where they do the Two Minutes Hate skit and everyone ironically yells "Lock her ..."


Unfortunately, the tradition goes back to 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts...


message 13: by Ted (new)

Ted Need to balance the budget while increasing military spending and reducing taxes?

Any Republican candidate can do that one! Actually I'm not even sure Trump knows anything about the budget, or cares about it.

Good rant anyway!


Manny Want to write popular reviews of books without once having to mention the content? There's nothing to it with Trump!


message 15: by Glenn (last edited Oct 02, 2017 04:30AM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

Glenn Russell Ha! Great way to write an Ubik review, Manny! Fortunately, even DT doesn't claim he is the underlying unifying principle in the universe - but what a minute, he does exactly that. Vote Ubik!!

By the way, I just did write a review of this PKD classic you might want to take a minute to check out. What a novel!


Manny I think someone should start rewriting all of Philip K. Dick's novels so that they are about Trump - it'd be a killer piece of performance art. Maybe when Jim and his crew have finished their current project, they'd like to take it on? It's always good to plan ahead.

I would start with The Man in the High Trump Tower (a parallel universe story where the Third Reich, led by Donald Trump, wins World War II), Trump in the Sky (they end up in a world where Putin is America's best friend, trickledown economics is the most effective way to help the working class, and all attractive women want nothing more than to be sexually assaulted by Donald Trump) then perhaps The Three Stigmata of Donald Trump (everyone starts morphing into copies of this creature with an uncontrollable Twitter habit, weird hair and tiny hands).


message 17: by Tim (new) - rated it 4 stars

Tim Safe when used as directed?


Manny I know I should have read the instructions first.


message 19: by Damon (new)

Damon Good let the whiny voice of losing flow through you. =). The God Emperor disapproves of your slander, liberal tool.


message 20: by Jim (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jim Damon wrote: "Good let the whiny voice of losing flow through you. =). The God Emperor disapproves of your slander, liberal tool."

Hurray! A russian troll!!

How's the weather in Moscow comrade?


Manny If I may quote Matthew 5:4 (it's all Matthew this week for some reason), blessed are the whiny losers, for they shall do well in the midterm elections.


message 22: by Jim (new) - rated it 2 stars

Jim Manny wrote: "If I may quote Matthew 5:4 (it's all Matthew this week for some reason), blessed are the whiny losers, for they shall do well in the midterm elections."

"And they shall smite the enemies of truth and justice with a terrible vengeance." - Jim 17:2


DeadWeight God, what's with boomers and their boring Trump obsession?


message 24: by Ivan (new)

Ivan Goldman I came to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ tonight to get away from news of the plague & the Orange Idiot -- and I run into a raging mindless fan of the Orange Idiot? Crap!!!


message 25: by Wayne (new) - added it

Wayne Spoken like a true sheltered, clueless liberal


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