I've read most of his novels and the vast majority of his short stories.

If you haven't read his stuff you're missing out.

He's one of my top five authors.

Pick up a collection of his short stories first; that or Radio Free Albemuth.

Is there any order I should read it? I've been jumping around a bit. Read Ubik and Stigmata, loved them both.

All of his novels are stand-alone works.

Just read.

His short stories, though, are easily my favorite of his works.

Cool good to know. I just saw some stuff referenced in both so I wasn't sure.

And I've heard! I Just picked up Adjustment Team and Scanners for a long trip next week. I'm stoked. Any similar authors you'd recommend?

I really liked Valis and my two compendiums of his short stories (both of which I gave to friends and never got back). The next thing you should get, I'd say, would be a compendium of his short stories. I'm not kidding when I say they're an experience.

I'll definitely check it out. My library has an audiobook copy of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, should I grab it sometime?

That one's probably best reserved for when you've gone through multiple novels and a hell of a lot of his short stories. He'll refer to characters and concepts from his novels. You'll get lost easily.

Another problem with that one is that Philip K. Dick was half crazy.

He's like a philosopher making up things as he goes along. Some of his ideas are so wild and unknown you'd think he was coming up with a whole new philosophical concept or system completely unknown and unseen i the Western World (he did come up with a concept that I thought of as a little kid and no one had discussed it in Western Philosophy to my knowledge - so, maybe he's not so crazy).

It helps to be familiar with how his mind works.

Exegesis is a book that even I haven't finished. Of course that's not so bad because Philip K. Dick didn't finish it either. It was edited by a family member or something. So it's kind of an interpolation of Philip K. Dick's thoughts about himself or something.

Start with his novels and short stories.

Thanks! I read the cover flaps and was like huh this sounds pretty interesting, I just don't know if I can digest it right now and seems like I was on track there.

I got it a month or two after it came out. And at that time I'd read the majority of his stuff. I'm also well versed in philosophy. That book is something read as a lark and over a long period of time with a lot of reflection between passages. It's not for the light-footed.

Philip K Dick is my favorite author of all time! He began being followed by the FBI after his book The Pentultimate Truth came out (about people being tricked into living in underground bases).

I read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in two days because I couldn't put it down. Everyone should read it!: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Stigmata-Palmer-Eldritch-Publisher/dp/B004W7H9OW/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1436480179&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=the+three+stigmata+of+palmer+eldritch

Love Dick, Love Lovecraft, and my new favourite is Robert Chamber's fantasty work.

I love the story of him and the Black Knight satellite.