The Man in the High Castle

Rating: 3.5/5
Rounded to 4 stars

Honestly, reading a book about the historical movements in literature and how to read classic books helped me so much with The Man in the High Castle by PKD.

I didn't understand everything, but I understood and saw more than I would have. This book is filled with postmodernist musings about the self, identity, history, and more. PKD brings in many attitudes and fears that the general audience in the 1960's would have understood.

I want to read this book again in a few years. It's slow and the characters and their lives are filled with activities that didn't interest me much, but I want to see if that changes now that I understand a bit more of the historical contexts within which the book was written and what themes PKD may have been writing about.