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Keith posted a review at 2009-11-21 15:08:25.
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So good it is rather hard to believe it was written by the same person
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A reader posted a review at 2009-10-30 09:06:27.
(Language: English)
Really good book - very thought provoking. There are never any winners in a war.
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Wade Ogletree posted a review at 2009-10-06 19:23:53.
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I'm mostly a fan of PKD for his short work, but this was brilliant. It's alternative, alternative history...and a must read for fans of literature and science fiction. (By that I mean a fan of both. If you're just a fan of one or the other, consider this an optional read.)
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Joe posted a review at 2009-10-05 16:14:19.
(Language: English)
A genuine work of art. The late 20th century has been dominated by Suburban Whitebread Fiction ... even Dick dabbled in it ... but any Philip K. Dick character is worth a 100 Owen Meanys.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-21 23:56:21.
(Language: English)
I've read this book many times over the last 28 years and it gets better every time.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-08 17:43:11.
(Language: English)
excellent so far and strangely haruki murakami-ish.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-07 12:10:04.
(Language: Italian)
per me il libro piú bello di PK Dick, ed uno dei piú bei romanzi ucronici che abbia mai letto. Storie quotidiane in un mondo in cui l'Asse ha vinto la guerra. L'assunto è deboluccio, ma non assurdo (Roosevelt viene assassinato nel 1933; gli USA non riescono a superare la grande depressione e restano isolazionisti, quindi incapaci di prestare assistenza all'Inghilterra e di resistere all'avanzata giapponese). In italiano è "la svastica sul sole".
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Mark posted a review at 2009-08-02 09:14:21.
(Language: English)
A book written by I-ching. It really works!
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Mark posted a review at 2009-08-02 09:14:20.
(Language: English)
A book written by I-ching. It really works!
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A reader posted a review at 2009-07-27 17:37:06.
(Language: English)
What do you expect from a book set in an alternate universe where the Axis won the second world war? Whatever it is, The Man in the High Castle, is far from it. It follows the lives of five main characters and a few minor ones in the Japanese occupied territory of the former united states. Childen is the proud owner of an antique shop that specialized in pre-war american memorabilia. Tagomi is a Japanese businessman who collects american memorabilia. Frank Frink is a Jew who workers at a company that builds fakes of ancient american memorabilia. His Ex-Wife, Juliana is a judo instructor who has an affair with an Italian truck driver. And finally Mr. Bynes, an agent of a resistance movement within the Reich who disguised as a wealthy Swedish industrialist. They affect each other's life from time to time, sometime even meet. But their stories are mostly separate. One of the things that tie the characters together is a book called "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy", which tells the story of an alternate history where the Allies won the war. The man issue of the book is reality and fake. it's a theme that runs through every character. Each are deceived or discover major parts of their life to be fake. It's an interesting book to say the least. And one that has interesting things to say on a political level as well as a personal one.
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