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A review by plompverlori
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
3.0
3,5*
Despite that the world building is phenomenal (except for the visualisation of rebuilt San Fransisco) and the concept of the allies having lost the war brings a lot of thoughts loose of how it all could have been, there is something about Philip K. Dick’s choice for style that bugs me.
In Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep it was the excessive use of stutter and personalized speak and in The Man In The High Castle it’s the use of incorrect grammar. Most sentences are incomplete, probably due to the fact that thoughts of characters are put out there in a form of stream of consciousness. This might not bother some readers, but it really took me out of the story, which I was hardly into emotionally at all, because only two main characters seemed kind of genuine to me.
Anyhow. It’s not a book you can get lost in and will find yourself angry/happy/sad whenever something happens to a character, but it does make you think, so if that’s what you’re into.
(Also, what is up with Dick thinking the Germans could’ve colonized Mars and commute between countries and continents via space travel in what the 1950s or 60s?)
Despite that the world building is phenomenal (except for the visualisation of rebuilt San Fransisco) and the concept of the allies having lost the war brings a lot of thoughts loose of how it all could have been, there is something about Philip K. Dick’s choice for style that bugs me.
In Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep it was the excessive use of stutter and personalized speak and in The Man In The High Castle it’s the use of incorrect grammar. Most sentences are incomplete, probably due to the fact that thoughts of characters are put out there in a form of stream of consciousness. This might not bother some readers, but it really took me out of the story, which I was hardly into emotionally at all, because only two main characters seemed kind of genuine to me.
Anyhow. It’s not a book you can get lost in and will find yourself angry/happy/sad whenever something happens to a character, but it does make you think, so if that’s what you’re into.
(Also, what is up with Dick thinking the Germans could’ve colonized Mars and commute between countries and continents via space travel in what the 1950s or 60s?)