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Anonymous Wed Jan 3 10:58:14 2018 No.10486061 [Reply] [Original]

Is this worth reading? Should I spend my time and money on it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:02:12 2018 No.10486073 >>10486061 you know, you can stop reading a novel at any time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:02:52 2018 No.10486077 >>10486073 no i cannot

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:07:03 2018 No.10486082 >>10486061 Worth reading, sure if you like the subject. Worth buying, not for me personally. Found it to be wanting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:09:19 2018 No.10486090 >>10486082 What was it lacking?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:15:58 2018 No.10486106 just watch the tv show

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:16:10 2018 No.10486107 Not all character arcs are interesting I don't know too many details about WW2, so most alt-history segments went over my head. At the same time, the alt-history stuff would probably be extremely lacking for people who know their history

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:20:04 2018 No.10486113 It's not his most exciting book, but it's my favorite book by PKD.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:43:28 2018 No.10486175 >>10486061 I've read a lot of PKD and I found this one the most dull. Its a great concept, but the pay off is weak and I don't give a shit about the Iching

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:53:19 2018 No.10486208 >>10486061 that's literally the worst cover for this novel ever. how the fuck is that representative?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 11:58:28 2018 No.10486226 >>10486208 around blacks, watch your backs

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 12:02:49 2018 No.10486245 it's worth reading but if I had a limited amount of money to spend, I'd pick a different PKD novel. order good but definitely not his best

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 12:03:39 2018 No.10486250 File: 792 KB, 609x923, 1484173975579.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10486106 Don't do this, it's garbage. Also, has anyone got any more of these edits?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 13:38:57 2018 No.10486520 File: 78 KB, 756x416, mural-6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10486208 It's by the angry black guy that did the same thing (except with blacks raping whites) for the sidewalk under the Eiffel Tower.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 14:07:45 2018 No.10486594 What did they mean by the cover?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 14:14:01 2018 No.10486612 >>10486520 cleon peterson isnt black

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 14:16:45 2018 No.10486627 >>10486594 >Penguin Essentials asked me to design the cover and I couldn’t be happier with how this thing turned out. The story is brilliant. The U.S. lost WWII and is now occupied by the Nazis and Japanese. Check it out. – Cleon Peterson

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 14:20:24 2018 No.10486643 >>10486061 Bought it for my dad for Xmas. He loves it. Read quite a bit of it so far, albeit he hasn't finished it yet. He's a slow reader, so that should be an indication of how good it is, I assume.

Anonymous Wed Jan 3 15:10:41 2018 No.10486806
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>>10486061
Why are most of The Man in the High Castle's covers so fucking ugly? This is the only one I can stand. Anyway, you should read it. It's not his best but it's pretty damn good. Also check out:

Ubik
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Minority Report

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 15:59:14 2018 No.10486979 File: 1.76 MB, 3120x4160, IMG_20180103_225814.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10486806 This is the cover of the first romanian edition.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 16:10:20 2018 No.10487025 File: 443 KB, 633x1023, wat bedoelden zij hier precies mee, als ik vragen mag.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10486979 Dutch

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 16:25:48 2018 No.10487084 >>10486612 Then he's a race traitor, even better.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:23:45 2018 No.10487351 >>10487025 The most generic SF cover

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:28:13 2018 No.10487366 Funny, I actually just read this a couple days ago, having never read a PKD novel before then. It really wasn't a very interesting book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:30:49 2018 No.10487373 File: 59 KB, 333x519, OH NO NO.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OH NO NO NO NO

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:37:17 2018 No.10487404 >>10486979 Weird but interesting. >>10487025 Shitty cover. It makes the book look like bad schlock from the 1930s. >>10487373 That's so absurd I like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:38:48 2018 No.10487411 >>10486627 It looks like everything else he has ever made. He's such a fucking hack.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:38:59 2018 No.10487413 It's by far the least interesting pkd book I've read of the dozen or so I've read so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:41:47 2018 No.10487419 >>10487413 I'm new to PKD. Could you rank, from best to worst, the dozen books of his that you've read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:42:16 2018 No.10487421 >>10486061 >>10486226 >>10486520 >>10486612 >>10487084 Literally KARA BOGA art.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:44:18 2018 No.10487434 File: 156 KB, 1440x672, KARA_BOGA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10487421

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:50:35 2018 No.10487468 File: 371 KB, 975x1510, oraakkelinkirja.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10487373 >>10487025 >>10486979 This is the Finnish edition.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:51:36 2018 No.10487475 >>10487468 finnish cover of the man in the high castle? fucking lmao, a burger. a fucking burger. God I love my finnic neighbours

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 17:55:19 2018 No.10487502 >>10487475 Yes. The name of the book is literally translated "book of the oracle" but it is just the Finnish name for it. https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oraakkelin_kirja

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 18:00:10 2018 No.10487543 File: 49 KB, 69x120, spurdo dance.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10487468 10/10. By far the best cover. Bravo Finland.

Anonymous Wed Jan 3 18:03:41 2018 No.10487555
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>>10487468
>>10487373
>>10487025
>>10486979
PKD said France was the best place for sci-fi readership anyway. (America was still behind, he thought). Not to mention Proust was one of his biggest influences.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 18:04:33 2018 No.10487558 >>10487555 Nice cover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 18:12:53 2018 No.10487594 File: 24 KB, 200x314, dick_p_laarzen_1968_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10487025 For some reason they retitled it to "Boots in the night"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 18:42:20 2018 No.10487717 File: 35 KB, 338x500, 51l0nCMd9ZL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 3 19:09:31 2018 No.10487826 File: 116 KB, 807x1200, the_man_in_the_high_castle_tv_series-160215254-large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10486061 Well I never say this. But the adaptation is far better than the book. Go watch that instead.

Anonymous Thu Jan 4 02:06:37 2018 No.10489456
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>>10486979
Love this.

Also great is this one. Generic SF illustration with some 70s-80s yugoslavian pulp detective/action hero vibe from the guy, questionable typography in the title and awful early PC font of the "Classic Science Fiction" banner. Great stuff all around.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 02:21:32 2018 No.10489474 >>10487717 Fashwave before you 2017 spergs even became reactionary.

Anonymous Thu Jan 4 03:52:46 2018 No.10489650

>>10486061
This book is misleading to say the least.
You'd expect a whimsical medieval story about a dude who gets high in one of those stone castles, with a princess or some shit.
Instead its about fuckin' Nazis and shit, what a gyp that turned out to be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 04:01:48 2018 No.10489671 >>10486250 the books shite. what did you expect?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 15:59:29 2018 No.10491569 >>10487421 they're shadow people matey

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 16:21:43 2018 No.10491656 File: 73 KB, 273x396, ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bolish

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 17:03:31 2018 No.10491833 File: 552 KB, 613x949, pkd castle of dick.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10486250 I have a few

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 17:04:50 2018 No.10491837 File: 502 KB, 609x947, pkd dick in the ass.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10491833

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 17:05:58 2018 No.10491841 File: 244 KB, 609x945, pkd who's dick is this.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10491837

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 4 17:17:54 2018 No.10491900 I'm almost finished with it and it's really odd. I think I would appreciate it more if I knew anything about Chinese philosophy but as it is a lot of stuff doesn't make any sense. I liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep much more.

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