Peculiarity In Philip K. Dick's Ubik

Peculiarity in Ubik Philip K. Dick’s Ubik is considered to be a serious piece of writing despite the novel’s unusualness. The novel is openly entertaining, filled with creative tropes, and ridiculous jokes. Additionally, the language in the novel is simple and it is easy to understand. After having finished the novel, the reader will definitely be very impressed by its creativeness. However, some people may regard the novel as an absurdity because of some confusion that may arise throughout the plot of the story. Furthermore, other people may argue that there are too many loose ends in the novel that never seem get answered, which leaves the reader with uncertainty in Dick’s writing style. Instead, this novel should be considered as a ride in which the reader has no clue what is about to happen next and this is evidently proven
Ubik keeps the reader guessing nearly every step along the way and one’s predictions about what will happen next in the story will probably be different as one continues reading the novel. The novel could also be regarded as a mystery in which all of the clues have to be put together and problems have to be solved, even though some questions are never answered. Also, these questions are extremely strange ones. For example, the problem in the novel is never trying to figure out who attempts to kill Glen Runciter, Joe Chip, and the inertials. Instead, the question here is trying to discover if a murder actually occurred at all in the story. Although Dick’s Ubik is unusually and carelessly written, it is nevertheless a work of art that should be praised because of its uniqueness such as, discussions of futuristic and metaphysical life and plot twists, and its ability to make readers question reality, which