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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle
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Start date
February 24, 2015
Finish date
February 24, 2015

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Snem
Jan 11, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: secrets-conspiracies
Just the concept of this book is mind blowing, what if the Axis Powers won WWII. Ponder that for a moment...stunning! So the strength in this is the plot and it simply made me think hard and was interesting.

I wasn't emotionally connected to any of the characters so I felt a little detached from this after finishing. It reads a little slow and lumbering. It's also not exactly science fiction per se at least it's a departure from the sci-fi of the author's "Blade Runner" or "A Scanner Darkly." So ...more
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Nate Morse
Oct 16, 2016 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: alternative-history, literature
Wasn't really a fan of this book. It did go into a lot of detail about what Dick thought would happen if the Axis won WWII, which is now in a cold war state between Germany and Japan, but other than that the book was the struggles of people living on the West Coast which is now run by the Japanese. There was a lot of time spent reading about characters reading other books but not too much happened until the final third of the book.

I don't know how this compares to the TV show as I have not seen ...more
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Hermione
Jul 08, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Carmin
Mar 12, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Mar 25, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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The Lady Anna
Nov 24, 2015 marked it as own-but-have-not-read
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Lisa Tipescu
Jul 02, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Holli
Jul 23, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Dec 24, 2016 rated it really liked it
Ryan
Apr 17, 2017 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Sydney
Feb 03, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Saadia
Feb 07, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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