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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

Start date: February 21, 2015

Finish date: March 1, 2015

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Jun 08, 2009 Judy rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, my-2009-books, sci-fi-fantasy, jewish-theme

This was a really interesting view of what life might be have been like in the 1960's in the US if Japan and Germany had won WWII. In this story, Japan rules the west coast of the US, Germany has the east coast (and seems to have done a lot of damage to the rest of the world in terms of wiping out "undesirables"). Jews are pretty much non-existent. Slavery is legal again, almost unimaginable to me. I found the emphasis on the I Ching to be fascinating. Very interesting, overall. The ending leave ...more

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Mar 07, 2014 Devin rated it really liked it

Here I sit in Germany, reading a work of speculative fiction about a world after the Nazis were victorious in the Second World War. Within said book, lies a book within the book. A book within the story that speculates about what the world could have been if the Nazis had been defeated. Given the bleak, paranoid worlds of Philip K. Dick's creation, it is better to live in this one while peering into this Mad Men of the Reich. This story could have been a little more polished, but it succeeds in ...more

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Nov 23, 2015 Michael rated it really liked it

What a weird beautiful little book. I don't think I understood all of it but maybe that's part of the point. The recursive aspects were truly inspired. I didn't love it as much as Androids but I'm looking forward to the TV series and more of his short stories. ...more

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Jul 25, 2008 Dennis rated it it was amazing

I love Philip K Dick and this was my favorite of his novels. The alternate history plot was creative and original and Dick creates a fascinating cast of characters. Like all good Philip K. Dick books, it becomes a paranoid thriller which poses society against the hero...who will win? I think some reviewers try to read to much into Mr. Dick's novels or focus too much on his rambling and eccentricities. Fair criticism for a novel like Valis or the Three Stigmata, but sometimes, he is just going fo ...more

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Jul 31, 2013 Ariel rated it liked it

This was not what I was expecting. I am used to big overarching stories about worlds and people and times. This was more little peeks into individual scenes in people's lives. It was good, of course. I enjoyed it. Thought the ending was a bit anticlimactic. I was expecting guns blazing, or great things happening, and instead it just flowed, like the rest of the book, as life does.

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