The man in the high castle

by Philip K. Dick

274 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:: 978-0-544-81728-9
OCLC Number:: 922630594

(32 reviews)

Overview: 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.

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JJ.Boston reviewed The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

Great premise, terrible execution.

1 star

Great premise, terrible execution.

Julian reviewed The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

Dick takes an idea which is becoming commonplace - multiple universes - but pioneers it and give it his own unique spin. Essentially, the people in the book are living a post WWII tragedy, where the bad guys won - and to them, our universe is the good one, they'd much rather be in. From this premise PKD weaves in multiple characters and storylines from when he was essentially at the top of his game. Excellent book.

decadent_and_depraved reviewed The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

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2 stars

The book of brilliant ideas, yet lamentably, not the book of great presentations.

Strakul reviewed The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

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3 stars

This was an interesting book, but having read it after watching the TV series makes me feel I did not appreciate it as much. While the setting seemed well crafted, the plot and characters suffered somewhat from my comparisons to the series. There are a few odd quirks (notably the emphasis on the I Ching) and a somewhat weak ending, but other than that it's a decent book.

For my full review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2016/11/book-review-man-in-high-castle-by.html

cargide reviewed El Hombre En El Castillo by Philip K. Dick

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4 stars

Tengo que decir que lo menos interesante del libro es la "historia transversal", porque solo con la ambientación da para que quieras seguir leyendo tres veces más de lo que dura el libro. Los personajes están muy bien retratados y no es difícil ponerse en su piel en casi todas las situaciones.

Mencionar que Amazon ha hecho una serie basada en el libro de la que solo he visto el piloto, pero que en común tienen la ambientación y poco más.

The Gnome King reviewed The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

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3 stars

I made a mistake with this book, I'd never heard of it before and started watching the TV series without realising it was based on a book, by the time I found out it was too late I was hooked on the series. They did an amazing job producing an excellent series from this quite dull book. It's a nice idea, a bit of a "what if the Germans and Japanese won the war?" and that was the books biggest failing for me, Philip K Dick doesn't paint a vivid enough picture of what that life is like, he focuses too much on a small group of characters and their vaguely linked lives.

I found the writing tough at times, lots of I Ch'ing phrases and not well explained, and Mr Tagomi's speech and thoughts were very confusing to follow.

A real shame, I was looking forward to this book …

Zéro Janvier reviewed The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

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3 stars

"Et si l'Allemagne et la Japon, vainqueurs de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, occupaient les Etats-Unis ?". C'est le point de départ de cette uchronie qui se déroule en 1962. Derrière cette idée intéressante, l'histoire du roman est cependant un peu décevante.