I think A Scanner Darkly is much above average for him. He took time on it (i.e. not blasting it out in 2 months on amphetamines) and it shows.
My God, he wrote a lot
i started with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, because i`ve had seen Blade Runner and wanted to know the source material, really good, some feelings triggers here and there.
i would actually recommend that you start with a volume of his short stories (doesn't matter which one--the first one, i guess, since i think they are all published in a convenient set of 5 volumes)
Dick is more of an idea man than a character-development or complex-plot or evocative prose man. i love many of his novels but his short stories convey his ideas in a succinct but sufficient way.
I'm a pleb so I've only read some of his short stories, I liked Second Variety and Beyond Lies the Wub.
Valis
Veeky Forums has a boner for Valis. It gets overly recommended.
I liked Ubik and Do Androids Dream, when I read them ages ago. I thought MITHC was boring af.
>I'm sure it's all good,
certainly not
but almost half of it is
Literally any of his more well-known and good novels.
The Simulacra
Ubik
Valis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Scanner Darkly
Martian Time Slip
The Game-Players of Titan
The Man in the High Castle
Galactic Pot Healer (unfortunately not about someone healing people with pot, but about a person who repairs broken pots)
etc.
t. Christcuckinson