4.06k reviews for:

Le Maître du Haut Château

Philip K. Dick

3.4 AVERAGE

phalgun's review against another edition

4.5

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

imogen3103's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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The wording was strange and hard to follow and I didn't really like the character or understand the plot.

jcugley's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

professorchickpea's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

wolfpackmorgan's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious reflective 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

kherrypye's review against another edition

4.0

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not at all what I thought the book was going to be but fantastic regardless, I flew through it and found it unexpected in all sorts of surprising ways, thoroughly recommend!

grace_theliteraryfiend's review against another edition

3.75

dark 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

leah_r94_reads's review against another edition

2.75

slow-paced

sarah_ls's review against another edition

3.0

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This is a tentative four stars. It turns out that audio was an incredibly BAD choice on this one. There's so much going on, there are so many characters, and so many POVs that I quickly became lost.

I've read four Dick books in the last month and it's funny how I tend to remember them as fun. Somehow I tend to forget that they squish your brain into a new shape very quickly and actually make you think. I enjoyed this one even though I was quite lost. And it was actually a pretty disturbing book. I can see why he said that he wanted to write a sequel but didn't like the way that writing the book made him feel.

I especially loved the story within a story method that was used. Grasshopper was a fascinating look at another possible universe. Alt-history within alt-history.

I really need to reread this so I can catch all of the things that I missed.

joepiercemyear's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective medium-paced