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A review by mylonpruett
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
3.0
"That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archetype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate—confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man."
Very unique book! In short it is a revisionist history look at what the world would be like if Japan and Germany had won World War II. I say revisionist history because I does not present the world as a terribly place run by evil monstrosities; instead the Americans and English are the presented as the real enemy. The English and conquered, the Americans serve as secondary citizens under the Japanese, and the Jews are almost exterminated (though some remain in hiding).
There is a very interesting twist at the end of the book and while the fiction portion of the book is great what really jumped out at me from this book is how thoroughly the book embodies by the fact that history truly is written by the victors and history is filled with liars. It serves as a challenge to remember to not accept the details of events just because someone in power says they are true.
Very unique book! In short it is a revisionist history look at what the world would be like if Japan and Germany had won World War II. I say revisionist history because I does not present the world as a terribly place run by evil monstrosities; instead the Americans and English are the presented as the real enemy. The English and conquered, the Americans serve as secondary citizens under the Japanese, and the Jews are almost exterminated (though some remain in hiding).
There is a very interesting twist at the end of the book and while the fiction portion of the book is great what really jumped out at me from this book is how thoroughly the book embodies by the fact that history truly is written by the victors and history is filled with liars. It serves as a challenge to remember to not accept the details of events just because someone in power says they are true.