**Decohere **
* Ubik—the only book that reads you as you read it. Side effects include narrative dissonance and ontological vertigo. *
Do books need to make sense? Ubik certainly doesn’t. Supposedly that’s the meta point - a dream, or constructed reality always has seams the reader can pick at, Ubik just makes it more obvious. The core narrative is about surviving in half-life, and different minds collide and cannibalize. Yet, if the narrative is not even an attempt at coherence, what are we left with? Art? A dream? Why do we even read? Maybe Ubik is the diving board from which the reader should jump into more profound thoughts. I just fell into the abyss.
Interpretation not guaranteed, handle with care or handle with apathy.
**18th book of 2025 **