Strange and unaffecting (The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick)

Member Name: mcader

Product:	The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Date:	26/02/09 (4 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some ideas, maybe

Disadvantages: Sketchy and abstract

Strange, unaffecting, dark book of an alternate world in America post-ww2 but with a Nazi-Japanese victory. Follows from a number of characters perspectives slightly linked and suffering in a sort of limbo, grey country. Bitterness and shady truths, black Nazi intrigue and a resignation to fatalism. Idealistic lies in the beliefs and thinking of the people.

Truth and its reality submerged.

A religion and a book offers a way and hope while key political/powerful players attempt to prevent the potential for greater darkness.....This world has lost itself in ruse and value with no-one facing up to what is real and making fate?

Make what you like of all this, but I just found it too abstract and convoluted to be a mature piece of science-fiction. It loves its ideas but it's not potent in delivering much on them.

It's a bit sketchy in places. Characters are not strong. The motivations difficult.

Summary: Read other Dick books