4.15k reviews for:

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

3.4 AVERAGE

deliunirvana's review against another edition

2.75

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

ellenreadsfantasybooks's review against another edition

2.0

challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

gelg's review against another edition

1.0

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Worst book I've ever read.

ntorres29's review against another edition

3.0

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not as profound as i was expecting, but really liked the sort of slice of life aspects w all the different characters.

dropkick's review against another edition

1.5

slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

lmckend's review against another edition

2.0

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Over rated.

paulwarfieldv's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gwyneira's review against another edition

4.0

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In Dick's alternate 1962, Germany and Japan won World War II and have occupied the United States jointly, with the Germans controlling the East Coast and the Japanese the West. The eponymous "man in the high castle", author Hawthorne Abendsen, has written a seditious book, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, describing what would have happened if the Allies had won the war, and Dick brilliantly uses this as well as the I Ching to illuminate and crystallize his characters' thoughts and feelings about their reality. He follows various characters through various conflicts, and though there isn't a lot of action, and nothing is really resolved at the end, that's not the point: it's really about the inner lives of the novel's people, and their individual responses to their world.

ninthlion's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

niftychef42's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No