lazylibrarian01 's review for:

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

3.5

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I very much enjoyed myself for 2/3 of the book. The last third, though... it bored me to tears. The only redeeming event was

Juliana slashing Joe's throat. Other than that? I don't need to know the particulars of the struggle for power in the Nazi regime after Bormann's death. I don't need to read with all the I Ching users the interpretation lines and hear their worrying about the damn thing. And I certainly don't know what to make of the man in the high castle himself, who might or might not be a stand-in for PKD, and I am also not convinced that the oracle "has written the book". A very strange ending for a book that, until that very last moment, tried so hard to get all the details right, all the small and big might-have-beens.

There were also other things that didn't sit right with me. Most of all I don't believe that any conquered nation would embrace so wholeheartedly the culture and idioms of their oppressors. 
On the bright side: I really liked the prose; it felt very modern.