false 216363 52 It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. <br><br>This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. 2398287 book 1962 The Man in the High Castle total:5155|5:1448|4:1971|3:1365|2:322|1:63| 5155 19874 6974 422 4 11 false false Mon May 12 08:42:27 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 09:08:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 7 false false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Mar 20 16:37:48 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 17:21:21 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 01:32:52 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 03:10:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 23:13:12 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 16:34:30 -0800 2009 The Man in the High Castle is almost too strange to be enjoyable. Besides Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it's probably Dick's most famous novel, and the one that popularized the alternate history genre. I've wanted to read it for awhile, not just because it's one of those Important Sci-Fi...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 15 07:51:25 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:44 -0800 2009
The alternate reality of a world where the Axis won WWII is very interesting and well thought out in my opinion. Also, the characters in this book seem realistically complex and deep, especially when compared to those in the other books I've read recently (...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 14:35:02 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 15:03:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false true Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 21:44:36 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 24 11:22:10 -0800 2009
There were three loosely-tied together plots, each with its own cast of characters. In my m...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 31 12:25:03 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 22:42:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 13:54:19 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 13:54:45 -0700 2007 The story is set in a post WWII world where the Axis won the war. The U.S. is divided up into two different te...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 16:10:15 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 16:12:43 -0700 2009 I am confused by the end...anyone willing to discuss/explain/interpret?]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 04:37:01 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 04:47:48 -0800 2009 A Scanner Darkly and then got distracted, and I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep for a book club). As a consequence, the first thing that strikes me about this book is how sane ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 07 12:51:47 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 12:53:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 08:25:22 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 08:27:00 -0800 2009
“While the Germans were busy bustling enormous robot construction systems across space, the Japs were still burning off the jungles in the interior of Brazil, erec...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 20:17:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 12:12:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 13:23:56 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 20:01:03 -0700 2009 David Weber and Eric Flint, and to be honest it's not a side of the science fiction genre I'm all that familiar. But this particular book has been on my list for a while, and was bumped up a while back afte...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 03:18:59 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 03:51:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 15:52:48 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 15:53:05 -0700 2009 Finally finished The Man in the the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. Normally this would be the part where I review the book and say what I liked and what I didn't like and what I took away from it... but really I have no idea. I'm not sure I fully "got" it. It wasn't a bad book; the p...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 10:14:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 10:15:15 -0700 2009
The man in the high castle, by philip k dick is one of those books. This book, like all of dick's writing, is revolutionary. It is challenging. It is completely and utterly bizzare. It ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 15:57:53 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 16:11:19 -0700 2009 Unfortunatly instead of an alternative history and excitement of a world under Axis control we are treated to the life and times of an antiques dealer in an alternative universe.

There is too much concentration on the trivia...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Apr 25 03:01:49 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 03:12:46 -0700 2009 1 more...]]>