A Monkey book report

I recently read this book:

This is the second Phillip K. Dick book I've read. The first was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which I loved, but oddly enough I despised the movie version of it, which you may know as the film Blade Runner.

This novel, The Cosmic Puppets, came out in the 1950's but it's not very dated at all. The reason it's not dated is that in it Dick writes about the constant struggle between good and evil. The story is about a man on a road trip with his wife who decides that he's got to visit his hometown in Virginia. When he gets there everything is changed and nothing in the town is as he remembers it. And the reason for that is because his town has become ground zero in the battle between two gods who use the towns people, insects, and vermin as their proxy fighters.

This book has all the hallmarks of a Phillip K. Dick novel, the battle between good and evil and skewed perceptions of reality. It's not as trippy as some of his later work, which means it's not packed with things that have double and triple meaning.

It was a quick and enjoyable read. I highly recommend it, especially to those who never have or don't read science fiction, because this book is not actually a sci fi book, it's more of a religious allegory.