We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick (Audiobook) 

Welcome back everyone! Today I'm reading "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by the eminent science fiction author Philip K. Dick. This is actually the short story that the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall and it's 2012 remake starring Colin Farrell are based on. I am pushing my luck here, but there are a few references to alien lifeforms that grow on the moon (known here as Luna) and Mars, so I am considering this to be speculative evolution/biology 😉 I will also quickly mention: There are, as per usual, a few small mistakes. The main character of the story is named Douglas Quail, for some reason I refer to him at one point as "Dale" and another as "Quill". No idea why, just my dumb brain not registering words properly. Other than that there's a few *very* minor mistakes but nothing too egregious 🤦‍♂️ Thanks again for watching, don't forget to like, comment, share and subscribe and become a Patron to help me out! Take it easy, BtQ.

We narrowly dodge this story being called "We remember it, so you don't have to"

I am LOVING all the audio book readings. I came here originally for the All Tomorrows content but I'm very glad I subscribed and stuck around. Thank you for all that you do!

Obligatory, "For the memory of a lifetime, recall, recall, recall". Man I am loving these readings.

"AAAGGGGJJHHAHAGGAHAAHAGAGAHAJAAAAGGGGHSHSHAAAFGSHSHA!" - Arnold as all the air leaves his body on the surface of mars

It's nice to hear total recall..... I mean this wonderful book by a favorite author of mine. As usual sir fantastic work. Keep it up.

An excellent reading. PKD is hard to understand, but therein lies the fun.

First time I've ever heard the original work that the 1990 movie was based upon.

thanks qu't pie! perfect vid for my smoke sesh. great vid and excellent naration as always, never stop.

Always excited for another Qu narration! 🤯

I came here after watching " Total Recall (2012) " . It's inspiration was mentioned before the post-credits in the movie's ending...

Been subscribed about 3 months. Came for all tomorrow. Stayed for your amazing sci Fi themed audiobooks ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

You are really good at this

IM GETTING INTO SO MUCH COOL SCI FI BECAUSE OF U BRO ILY

I just love your channel, I'm binging your stories on my spare time for a week now

Such a cool story. I love these audio book readings; they're stories I'd probably never pick up on my own so it's neat to get exposure to them here.

Had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't X-Mas, I'm feeling a little spoiled with the back to back readings!😄

That was a fun wacky old story. I loved it! Wish the women were better written but I'm guessing this a very old book so I've come to expect that. It was fun!

Dude! Cranking out the content! This was great ! Keep it up!

Hey, I found you again. RU-vid hasn't had you in my feed in a while. I really like your videos. Cheers my dude. Keep it up.

To experience that great intelligence PKD experienced and communed with who showed him such alternate, yet quite real universe.

Great reading...another awesome sci-fi short story you should tackle is George r. Martins "sandkings". Top notch stuff.

Thank you for this. 👍

Great reading!

Nicely done my dude👍 Loving the new content, as I was wondering what (if anything) you would decide to cover after/other than the “all tomorrow’s” and “man after man” type stuff Also, Idk why but I find your voice sorta calming, tho not in a asmr type way, like….🤔…..soothing I quess?🤦‍♀️No? Wtf ever, hopefully you get me😅 But anyways, please keep the great content coming! ….btw, on a side note, I wonder if there’s anybody who listens to this who has no clue about it inspiring the movie/movies? I mean I doubt that it would be that many considering that the people who are into your channel are most likely gonna be into sci-fi so?🤨 Tho if there are some, then after listening they might go watch it and get into the genre. The world could always use more Sci-fi nerds after all!😅 Just a thought😏

woah, thanks so much!

You should do a color out of space next!!

Are you reading me Total Recall? OK, by bad for not knowing this is where it came from.

Well, this story was a total mindfuck. And also pretty compelling, too! EDIT: No, really. From the opening words, the story sucks you in, delivering a mind-bending thriller-cum-comedy of errors like no other. The final twist wherein Quail's second, more improbable fake memory turns out to be another real memory of his is also both shocking and provoking: How many memories does Quail know and how many lives has he lead prior to this point? It's good stuff, and as my first story from Philip K. Dick, it's a good one.

Great listen 👌

Unexpected, but overly enjoyed. I love your content brother.

So does that mean they were going to kill Douglas!? I thought they said if it wasn’t gone he would be.

Such fun

Nice choice!

Didn't see that last twist coming ngl😭

Total Recall opening credits sent me here

If so worried about straying too far from the BtQ brand, why not start an audiobook channel that allows you to produce these videos separately from BtQ content? I enjoy these and don't mind the difference in themes, but understand and agree with keeping things consistent for the BtQ channel

This story sounds like Space Pirate Cobra :D

To Mars!

Ah, the prequel to All Tomorrows

Where’s Johnny Cab in 📕?

There's something that always bothered me about this story. Assuming it was always the plan to rewrite Quail's memory after the fact, why did they turn him into a middle class office worker?

Doug needs a divorce

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Whut?

I just want to hear” we can build you”. Can you read that? I’m sure it’s not that hard, it’s a relatively short novella. It is selfish that no one will😕. Just like no one has yet read Aldous Huxley’s second novel, Ape and Essence. I’m just gonna listen to do androids dream of electric sheep again and wish you would read the right things

I'm very uncomfortable with the casual sexism on display in this otherwise very good story. The only females in this story are either presented as clueless and vain or malicious and cruel albeit in a limited capacity :-/