"To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again, as recent and unknown to me, books which I had read carefully a few years before . . . I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book . . . the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it." (Montaigne, Book II, Essay 10 (publ. 1580))

Monday, October 03, 2016

The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick, 1963)

Clever:  author constructs a story premised on World War II ending in German/Japanese victory.  Mostly set in San Francisco, some in Rocky Mountains.  The year is 1962 - Germany took the lead.  So that part is interesting throughout.

What I didn't like as much:  hard to connect to any character.  Everyone seemed rather unhappy (which I suppose was the point).  And the story just sort of ended without tying up various plot lines that had been developed.


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