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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
Two great books in a high-quality hardcover format usually reserved for the "real" classics - The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Read my other mini-reviews for details, but definitely this is the one book to get for any PKD virgins. (Wasn't really that thrilled with the other two books in this volume. Unique and out there? Definitely. But didn't work for me.)
The ending was so anticlimactic and you could practically feel the drugs seeping through the pages. Not altogether unenjoyable.
All Philip K. Dick books are like using a lemon squeezer on your brain, but this one was particularly full-on.
Another book I would have never read if not for my book club, especially because I don’t really enjoy narratives where the Nazis win. And being such an old book, I had some trouble understanding the writing style and sometimes even the vocabulary, and I feel like a lot of the meta commentary and philosophizing went way above my head. I also didn’t care much for any of the characters to feel invested in.
I still thought it might have a good ending that would make it worth my effort but that conclusion just blew my mind because I did not understand a single thing about what actually happened. What the f was that???? Just makes it feel like all the time I spent reading was pointless.
If you enjoy reading older books and award winners, then this might be for you. But like me, if you are more into modern writing styles and more accessible storytelling, I wouldn’t recommend picking this one.
I still thought it might have a good ending that would make it worth my effort but that conclusion just blew my mind because I did not understand a single thing about what actually happened. What the f was that???? Just makes it feel like all the time I spent reading was pointless.
If you enjoy reading older books and award winners, then this might be for you. But like me, if you are more into modern writing styles and more accessible storytelling, I wouldn’t recommend picking this one.