<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post803837709120986983..comments</id><updated>2010-02-12T04:51:35.073-06:00</updated><category term='2'/><category term='6'/><category term='Geekiness'/><category term='2010 Challenge'/><category term='World Citizen'/><category term='4'/><category term='movies'/><category term='Plays'/><category term='OUaT4'/><category term='Friday Finds'/><category term='sci-fi'/><category term='Vintage Mystery Challenge'/><category term='graphic novel'/><category term='7'/><category term='OUaT2'/><category term='2011 Challenge'/><category term='YA Challenge'/><category term='Shakespeare Challenge'/><category term='Politics'/><category term='OUaT5'/><category term='Japanese Lit Challenge'/><category term='Life'/><category term='Chunkster Challenge'/><category term='1'/><category term='TBR LITE'/><category term='RIP challenge'/><category term='Classics Challenge'/><category term='fantasy'/><category term='non-fiction'/><category term='5'/><category term='Name Challenge'/><category term='Armchair Traveller Challenge'/><category term='Personal Challenge'/><category term='10 out of 100 Challenge'/><category term='Everything Austen Challenge'/><category term='Sci-fi Experience'/><category term='POC Challenge'/><category term='Russian Challenge'/><category term='OUaT3'/><category term='TBR Dare'/><category term='Science Book Challenge'/><category term='3'/><category term='TBR Challenge'/><category term='1% Challenge'/><category term='Off the Shelf Challenge'/><category term='9409 challenge'/><category term='LOTR Readalong'/><category term='1001 books list'/><title type='text'>Comments on Cynical Optimism: PKD</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/feeds/803837709120986983/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html'/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13215448457283751470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SOmyvxnpDaw/SKCxG065IOI/AAAAAAAAADk/rTVSMKqhN4I/s1600-R/IMG_1378.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-7623331292035724892</id><published>2010-02-12T04:51:35.073-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T04:51:35.073-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I read and enjoyed Do Androids Dream.  The only ot...</title><content type='html'>I read and enjoyed Do Androids Dream.  The only other work of his I have read was the collection-The Golden Man.  Both were very good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like many other books, I have this one on my shelf to read.  A least you enjoyed some of it.  The worst feeling is reading a whole book and not enjoying any of it.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/7623331292035724892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/7623331292035724892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html?showComment=1265971895073#c7623331292035724892' title=''/><author><name>Jim Black</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768774128257259384</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-803837709120986983' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/posts/default/803837709120986983' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-665970278'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-3719530445213986200</id><published>2010-02-10T13:09:01.652-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T13:09:01.652-06:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Weird and trippy&amp;quot; is correct!  I am wan...</title><content type='html'>&amp;quot;Weird and trippy&amp;quot; is correct!  I am wanting read Man in the High Castle as well.  I also saw a copy of The Penultimate Truth in the bookstore the other day.  I had not heard of it but it looked really interesting.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/3719530445213986200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/3719530445213986200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html?showComment=1265828941652#c3719530445213986200' title=''/><author><name>Carl V.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='28' src='http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/images/hanpic.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-803837709120986983' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/posts/default/803837709120986983' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-758646808'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-4212936094141223849</id><published>2010-02-10T12:12:56.748-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T12:12:56.748-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve read Do Androids Dream, A Scanner Darkly,...</title><content type='html'>I&amp;#39;ve read Do Androids Dream, A Scanner Darkly, and now this one.  I&amp;#39;m going to start The Man in the High Castle soon.  I like his stuff but it is really weird and trippy.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/4212936094141223849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/4212936094141223849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html?showComment=1265825576748#c4212936094141223849' title=''/><author><name>Melanie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13215448457283751470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SOmyvxnpDaw/SKCxG065IOI/AAAAAAAAADk/rTVSMKqhN4I/s1600-R/IMG_1378.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-803837709120986983' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/posts/default/803837709120986983' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1394100829'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-5833544126481475444</id><published>2010-02-10T10:39:49.889-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T10:39:49.889-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m really wanting to read more PKD.  The only...</title><content type='html'>I&amp;#39;m really wanting to read more PKD.  The only stories I have read are Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.  I enjoyed them both enough to be interested in trying some of his other novels. Glad you enjoyed it somewhat despite its flaws.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/5833544126481475444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/803837709120986983/comments/default/5833544126481475444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html?showComment=1265819989889#c5833544126481475444' title=''/><author><name>Carl V.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='28' src='http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/images/hanpic.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2010/02/pkd.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19933604.post-803837709120986983' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19933604/posts/default/803837709120986983' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-758646808'/></entry></feed>
