Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
by Philip K. Dick · first published 1986
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In 1950s San Francisco, elderly garage owner Jim Ferguson prepares to retire and sell his business, but when he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, Al Miller, one of Jim's mechanics who thinks that Harman is a crook, sets out to protect his mentor.
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Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick Sometimes a little bit of fiction is nice over the usual technical / theory books one might read :)
on “What are you reading?” ↗…hauls from a library book sale a couple years ago. I also recently read Don't Look Now And Other Stories (a Daphne DuMaurier collection), & I'm working my way through PKD's little-known hardboiled novel Humpty Dumpty In Oakland and another book (called "The Book") that's a history of the codex format. The Mind’s Eye is, like most of Sacks’ books, a series of compulsively readable case-studies with an autobiographical element…
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