All these stories are good, though some are better than others. You may have seen some of these movies, just know they're quite different.
I think the most intriguing was Second Variety, a play on figuring out who the killer/spy/whatever is. It does take the guy annoyingly long to figure out what's happening at the end, but I still appreciated being in the moment and understanding the struggle he was going through just to hold himself together.

I would just echo what John W. Campbell said about PKD stories: "Nuts."

More complete review to follow.

Hobbies include: reading the book so I can smugly say it's better than the movie, which is true of all three stories in this book whose movies I've seen.

3.5 stars based on average of my individual ratings (see below).

I "swapped Dicks" (HAH) with my friend Samantha (I'd bought her this collection). I liked a lot of the first half and some of the last half started to lose me. PKD is great with concepts and tantalizing world-building but I never like his characters. For me they're just there as filler and as a way to demonstrate the world and concepts. Rarely do I feel any sympathy for them or identify with them. The men are often chauvinist and having affairs, the women either dumb but beautiful or shrewd but psychotic. Their breasts are given jarringly unnecessary attention.

I don't think PKD had many good experiences with women. In the notes in the back he talks about how his wife wouldn't let him work in the house (why, lady?) and he had to rent a shack that was so cold in winter that his ink froze. He talked about being really lonely and feeling isolated from the house and honestly I feel sorry for the guy.

But the ideas! PKD should have been a better writer's muse. There's a reason the adaptations are usually much better than the source material in his case.

PKD is big into "we solved this problem for the people's own good but the solution robs them of some fundamental human quality or freedom." It's crazy how many of the concepts that terrified him are things we might benefit from nowadays. On Twitter I joked:

"PKD: Automated factories that take over all production and resist human intervention! Brainwashing that ensures interpersonal harmony! Mood modifying machines!

I’ll give individual ratings for each story in this edition:
- The Minority Report: 4/5
- we Can Remember It For You Wholesale: 5/5
- Paycheck: 4/5
- Second Variety: 3/5
- The Eyes Have It: I don’t even know what happened here; it was too short for me to form an opinion

I enjoyed these short stories. The movie is loosely based on this book. Another one on the list of movies better than the book.. The short stories reminded me of Twilight Zone. Fun read.