The Man in the High Castle in Philip K. Dick

Aug 03, 2017 Damon rated it it was ok

Shelves: sci-fi

This story feels very unfinished. Seems like an idea that PKD experimented with and then put back down. It ended at the point it felt as though it was just beginning.

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Mar 29, 2014 Mustafa Özgür rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A novel of PKD that creates another world (nebenwelt) with another reality by changing the 'victorious'es of the world war II. Dick takes WWII as an inflection point among the human history and let Hitler live till 1947, Martin Bormann as the next führer of the german people and so on, and similar to our world next führer is Joseph Goebbels :).

Germany and Japan are two super powers of this "NebenWelt" and the cold war goes on between them; the story in the book is about this struggle; but, for m A novel of PKD that creates another world (nebenwelt) with another reality by changing the 'victorious'es of the world war II. Dick takes WWII as an inflection point among the human history and let Hitler live till 1947, Martin Bormann as the next führer of the german people and so on, and similar to our world next führer is Joseph Goebbels :).

Germany and Japan are two super powers of this "NebenWelt" and the cold war goes on between them; the story in the book is about this struggle; but, for me, the most striking part of the novel was seeing Hermann Göring (chef der Luftwaffe), Baldur von Schirach (reichsjugendführer), Heinrich Himmler (reichsführer SS), Dr. Arthur Seys-Inquart (bundeskanzler der österreich), Adolf Eichmann (SS-führer , sentenced to death in Israel, in our world :) ), Walter Schellenberg (chef der SD und abwehr), reichsadmiral Wilhelm Canaris (also chef der abwehr), and of course Dr. Joseph Goebbels (reichspropagandaminister) live, as they've been resurrected for an alternative history.

I forgot to mention reinhard heydrich (hitler named him as mann mit dem eisernen herzen), whom survived an assasination attemp in Prag but wounded badly and had died after eight days at the age 38, in our world :). He is the one of next generation nazi leader in the book, where the old names are "altparteigenosse".

As a man interested in WWII, it was a very good reading for me. The next reading of this kind will be "Vaterland" by Robert Harris of course.

I put a paragraph from the book that I liked very much;

“...She always liked people to look at her, admire her; anybody. I guess most women are like that. They crave attention all the time. They’re very babyish that way.
He thought, Juliana could never stand being alone; she had to have me around all the time complimenting her. Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren’t watching what they do then what they do isn’t real. No doubt she’s got some guy noticing her right now. Telling her how pretty she is. Her legs. Her smooth, flat stomach...”
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Oct 18, 2010 P added it · review of another edition

seriously love him. that is all.

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Jan 29, 2010 Patrick Haga rated it liked it

Shelves: books-i-own, 2010, fiction, sci-fi-fantasy

Not a big fan of this book. The broken English, while I understood the point of it, was annoying. The story was meh and the characters were thin and boring. Not to mention it's unfinished. ...more

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