Title: The Man in the High Castle Pdf
Winner of the Hugo Award
“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” —New York Times
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award–winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
Great book...for its day, might be disappointing to modern readers The reason I rated it four stars is because I'm sure, that to readers of the 1960's for whom this book was written, and most of whom lived through the actual WWII, the ending was extremely satisfying, if a bit bizarre. To me, a child of the '70's and '80's who grew up with my fiction a bit more lengthy and involved (Think 'Star Wars and the Beverly Cleary books for kids), the ending comes as, if not a full deus-ex-machina, then extremely anticlimactic.Without giving anything away, let me say that, through nine-tenths of the book, Dick builds the story (and the readers) up to this heart-wrenching climax--and then doesn't deliver. The effect was like being ushered into a great and grand house, all designed and built around a single unifying theme, each room a better, more nuanced expression of that theme. Then, just as we come to the doorway to the central chamber--the ultimate expression of the theme which we have been led, by degrees, to understand throughout the entire tour--we run into a white sheet with the words "THUS FAR AND NO FARTHER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT--THE DOORMAN WILL SHOW YOU OUT." printed on it, and we are promptly hustled out the side entrance, the door slammed behind us.Long story short: If you came here expecting a novel-form of the excellent series of the same name based on this story, produced by Amazon and overseen by Philip K. Dick's family and estate, you'll be very disappointed. What Amazon and the. Philip K. Dick family have done is taken the premise, a few of the excellently written characters, and the story question of this novel, and allowed the story to run, filling out a great riverbed, rather than constricting it to the bathtub-size which was this commercial volume.TL;DR Watch the series instead. It is definitely inspired by this book, but much more detailed and suited to those who want an in-depth story.Things are not always as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream. As I progress through life, and accept that I'm not young any more, I also realize that the younger generations do not ingest books the way I do. If you look at the reviews for this book, especially at the 1 and 2 star ratings, you'll find a deplorable pattern. "It was too slow." No, you're not considering what you're reading. "The author is a racist." Definitely no, he's almost drawing a caricature of them to shine a great big spotlight on facism and bigotry in order to persuade the audience of just how evil these things are. "The ending was too abrupt." or "He obviously meant to write a sequel." No and no. After many thousands of words placed in thought provoking ways, the author challenges the audience to decide what the story means. And gives us license to pick the ending that we think fits the best.This story was written in the 60s, and is set then as well. What if the Axis won World War II is the major premise behind the setting. The conflicts highlight the extreme to which Japanese and German cultures could have gone, and the possible effects of living in a land under the control of one, and strongly influenced by the other. Imagine the Japanese concept of place, mixing with facist bigotry, overlaid on oppressed Americans living in a totalitarian world. PKD thoroughly denounces facism, bigotry and xenophobia.But the story is more than that. The plot is hidden from the reader as we see events from several points of view. And the narration ends with barely a paragraph of denouement. If you are not driven to contemplation about the meaning of life or the nature of reality by this work, you should read it again, slowly.Boring as Hell... incredibly horrible crappy writing and stupid. This book is excruciatingly slow and pointless. So incredibly mundane and boring, and I wonder if the author was on meds. Why the acclaim? I’ll never know. Enough about Japanese conquerors obsessed with buying American Civil War memorabilia. Enough about Germans landing on the moon and Mars, and German rocket ships used as commercial airlines that take you halfway around the world in 45 minutes. These are all briefly mentioned in passing, as the focus is on the turgid descriptions of stupid people consulting the I Ching, etc. This junk may have passed for an intellectual challenge in 1962, but it sucks. I put it down after page 60. I flipped around and the pages ahead contained more of the same appallingly boring content. This novel sucks.I refuse to donate this book to Goodwill, as I would not want to subject anyone else to reading this horrible crap. I threw the book in the recycling bin.
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