The Man in the High Castle
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The Man in the High Castle
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Cummings
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By:
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Philip K. Dick
About this listen
Now an Amazon Original series
Winner of the Hugo Award
"The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." --New York Times
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it, Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
©1962 Philip K. Dick, © renewed 1990 by Laura Coelho, Christopher Dick, and Isa Hackett. (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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- Jason
- 20-07-15
Brilliant
Would you try another book written by Philip K. Dick or narrated by Jeff Cummings?
Another great story from PKD. The narrator is excellent too.
Would you be willing to try another book from Philip K. Dick? Why or why not?
Yes
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Hard to choose.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
Yes
Any additional comments?
I would recommend
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- TD Hill
- 19-04-22
actually not a good book! well performed though
Generally well performed although the voice of Juliana is a little amusing. The book itself is actually not good. The Prime TV show is far superior.
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- Patrick Kerley
- 09-06-15
Great!
Awesome story, but slow to get going.. And if you can ignore the casual racism and the weird alternative history, your in for a treat!
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- CDextrous
- 16-02-17
Better read than a listen
I read this when I was a kid and loved it. It's harder to follow when listening, but still very enjoyable. The reader was eloquent but unconvincing with accents and I found he really struggled with female voicing (for Juliana). Still, I would recommend this to anyone. Just don't be doing anything else while you're listening or you'll lose the thread and have to go back.
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- Dr Gillian D Walsh
- 19-08-20
Disappointing after the tv
I thought this would be gripping but , compared to the TV programme of the same name, its limited.
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- Mic
- 21-01-16
Just average all over I think.
Very predictable twist at the end with no real meat to it. mildly entertaining but not really satisfying all told. voice acting ok, but Juliana sounded like Sharon Marsh from Southpark which was rather off putting.
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- Jesper Hauerslev
- 21-05-16
Watch the TV series first...
If you are intrigued by the premises then maybe start with the TV series first. The book goes into more detail about the world which is both interesting and frightening butis otherwise a very slow moving piece of fiction where characters seem to ponder about everything page after page after page. Not much actually happens and a political power struggle that could mean the start of 3rd World War, and would have been a great plot driver, is only briefly alluded to and then fizzles out to make room for more pocket size philosophy. Even some of the characters are downright annoying, with Juliana taking top place she comes across as gullible, naive and is too much of a bimbo which is not helped by the narrators performance of her. So no, best start with the TV series.
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- Jarek
- 17-02-24
Not much in common with the TV series…
If you hope this book will answer some questions left open after the Amazon Prime TV series you will be disappointed. Not much in common between the book and the show. Many most interesting characters from the show are nowhere to be seen, other are completely different (and not to the better). Well, even the main story is about something else.
It is not so often when adaptation is a couple of levels above the book. This is one of these rare cases…
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- R. Maines
- 08-04-16
A classic.
It's one of PKD's more readable books, with weirdness kept to a minimum. The world building is done with very little info dumping, and even if the plot leads nowhere the journey is enjoyable.
Narration was ok, understandable at x2 playback speed.
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- Er Jwee Chiek 余瑞傑
- 13-11-20
Brilliant narration by Jeff Cummings
Excellent vocal characterization of the Myriad characters in what must be Phillip K. Dick’s Magnum opus. An alternate reality where the Japanese and Germans Nazi won the second world war against the Americans. The story took place in the USA where the country has been divided between the German nazis and Japanese. The narrator Jeff Cummings did an excellent job with German accents Japanese accents and American accents.
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