“The Man in the High Castle” is my second favourite PKD novel, after “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. I read both novels in the same year, back in the day, along with “Ubik”, “VALIS” and “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, and most of PKD's short fiction. Without doubt the most mind-bendi...
Interesting idea and liked the insight into the I-Ching but the book wasn't coherant to me. Several characters with their own stories which did not converge. Basic message seems to be that humans are powerless puppets in the hands of fate.
“Huh?” That was pretty much my reaction at the end of this book. The first and only other book I’ve read by Philip K. Dick was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. I thought that book had a weird ending, but I think The Man in the High Castle out-weirded that one. The general setting is in an ...
"Hmmm. This seems like a fun book. Something light, but engrossing to listen to on my commute," I thought to myself. Nope. So while I didn't get what I expected, I was blown away by what I got. I am going to have to go back and read instead of listen to it because I know I missed pieces and I sti...
My roommate started watching the TV adaptation of this book, which I remembered reading for a class in college. I dug it out of an old box to give it another whirl... and was really okay with putting it in my donation pile when I finished. It's certainly an interesting story, but I wasn't very engag...
This book was my first exposure to any of Phillip K. Dick's works, and I have to say that just based on this one, I'm not terribly impressed. That's not to say that I feel this is a bad work by any means, and perhaps I'm missing some greater meaning here, but I simply don't get some of the fanfare s...
This is one of those books that has been around long enough in the cultural consciousness that I'm not sure I have much to add to the discourse. I will say this book wasn't quite what I expected. It is difficult to read in places, as the racism element is an important part of the book (which I expec...
I delved into Philip K. Dick's, The Man in the High Castle, which was recently turned into a miniseries. I became intrigued because not only did the trailer look amazing but its focus is on a turning point in history which I'm very interested in (you'll know if you've been here a while). The second ...
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick I first read The Man in the High Castle many years ago, and remember being underwhelmed by it in comparison with Harris's Fatherland. In light of the recent furor over it, I decided to read it, and I'm glad I did, as my comparison to Fatherland was way ...
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