POSTED 6:28 21/1/2012

I just started reading this book, and on page 23 Carrere locates Orange County ” a few hundred miles south of Berkeley.” Well, L.A. is 400 miles south of Berkeley, and Orange County is even farther south. Nitpicking, maybe, but it makes one wonder about Carrere’s other “facts” presented in this biography of one of the greatest SF writers of all time. This kind of “mistake” of fact is inexcusable in a biography.

Footnote: Got to page 48 and stopped reading it, too much intricate, intrepid, vague factual “details” of PKD’s life, while unable to locate the distance between Berkeley and Orange County; and page 48: “She took him down to the cliffs to show him a secret cove- the most westerly point in the United States, she said.” Obviously a reference to either Point Reyes or Bodega Bay, which in the vicinity of Point Reyes Station, and no where near the “most westerly point” in the U.S, which in fact is Cape Mendocino, south of Eureka, CA. One star, because I could not give it NO STARS.