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An alternative history tale set in a US where the Axis powers won the Second World War. America has been divided into a Japanese colony on the West Coast, a German colony on the East Coast and sort of a midwest buffer state between the two. The themes of the two intertwined stories are familiar to PKD veterans; People are not who they seem to be, reality is not as real as you might think, the counterfeit is indistinguishable from the "real". Paranoia and epistemological rantings abound.
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A very frustrating work.
And I can understand the admiration one could have with a culture as utilitarian as the Japanese. But that was also the same nationalistic hogwash that would have marched my grandfather off to die in some work camp of exhaustion or dysentery, or sliced his fucking head off with a kitana if he were to be so unfortunate as to have become captured as a POW when he was fighting in the South Pacific in the first half of the 1940's.
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And I can understand the admiration one could have with a culture as utilitarian as the Japanese. But that was also the same nationalistic hogwash that would have marched my grandfather off to die in some work camp of exhaustion or dysentery, or sliced his fucking head off with a kitana if he were to be so unfortunate as to have become captured as a POW when he was fighting in the South Pacific in the first half of the 1940's.
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Aug 15, 2010
Kathleen Wilson
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Keeping re-starting and re-starting this one...don't think I'm intelligent enough (or have done enough drugs!) to understand this one...will keep trying and update when I do finish it!
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seriously love him. that is all.
Possibly the best book ever written?
Nov 30, 2010
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