Paycheck in 25 Words or Less

An engaging premise beset by awful story execution where stupidity rules the day and characters act with stunning disregard for their supposed motivations. Grade: D

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Has anyone read the Philip K. Dick short story this is based on? I think I'm going to pick it up.

Edit: As I was browsing for a copy of Dick's "Paycheck" on the Glendale Public Library's online database, I came across a book called The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, which I had forgotten all about, but which was written by the best creative writing teacher I had a Hamline, Larry Sutin. Sutin, of course, was booted from the undergrad English department at about the same time as Richard Smyth, my faculty advisor and the other best English teacher I had at Hamline. Raise a hypertextual glass with me, if you will, to Larry Sutin and Richard Smyth.

This would also be an appropriate moment to give props to Alan Silva, who taught my senior thesis course on novels made into films, wrote me a great recommendation to USC, and who has apparently gone on to become Assistant Dean of the College since I graduated.

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