Author Topic: "The Man in the High Castle" aka, Alt History FoC can agree with! (Read 2590 times)

BlueTsunami · « **on:** October 20, 2007, 06:30:56 PM »

$:-\$

Oh man, what the Germans did to Africa...

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2007, 06:56:37 PM »

Damn, I really need to finish up Blood Meridian so I get to work on that PKD collection.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2007, 07:08:48 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on October 20, 2007, 06:56:37 PM

Damn, I really need to finish up Blood Meridian so I get to work on that PKD collection.

Jesus, slowpoke.

bud · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2007, 07:19:22 PM »

i'm going to finish reading angels and demons by dan brown $:-\$

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2007, 07:23:15 PM »

Quote from: Father_Mike on October 20, 2007, 07:08:48 PM

Quote from: CajoleJuice on October 20, 2007, 06:56:37 PM
Damn, I really need to finish up Blood Meridian so I get to work on that PKD collection.

Jesus, slowpoke.

I know. (I'm sorry I didn't start it with you guys)

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2007, 07:25:46 PM »

Its pretty good Cajole. The Germans in this book are like detached psychopaths.

TVC15 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 21, 2007, 09:44:31 PM »

Dunno if it's true or if Dick was just trying to talk up his most acclaimed book, but he claimed that he actually wrote it while consulting the i-ching about what would happen next in the book.

Personally, I think he was just looking for a hype point, since the book, great as it is, isn't so drastically different from other Dick books that I'd believe he did anything substantially different to write it (aka benzedrine and isolation).

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2007, 09:54:19 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on October 21, 2007, 09:44:31 PM

Dunno if it's true or if Dick was just trying to talk up his most acclaimed book, but he claimed that he actually wrote it while consulting the i-ching about what would happen next in the book.

Personally, I think he was just looking for a hype point, since the book, great as it is, isn't so drastically different from other Dick books that I'd believe he did anything substantially different to write it (aka benzedrine and isolation).

I haven't read the others yet (I'm about to read Three Stigmata) but what I got from the Wiki page is that he used the I Ching for plot points and which direction he should go. But it does sound like, as you said, a hype point when trying to play up the book.

TVC15 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 21, 2007, 10:44:37 PM »

Another reason I think it's just a hype point is that it seems like the i ching's appearance in the novel in itself was something of a hype point, too. It's no secret that Dick was from Berekley, so I am sure he got exposed to a lot of shitty hippy crap before it was hip, so maybe the publication date of High Castle coincides when all that bullshit was catching on as a buzzword.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #9 on:** December 12, 2007, 07:43:35 PM »

Yea, so I gave up on Blood Meridian and started reading this. Seven chapters in and it's fucking great. Why didn't I start reading PKD earlier? Jesus.

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #10 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:18:34 PM »

Whats it about?

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #11 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:25:25 PM »

Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.

TVC15 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:29:58 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 12, 2007, 07:43:35 PM

Yea, so I gave up on Blood Meridian and started reading this. Seven chapters in and it's fucking great. Why didn't I start reading PKD earlier? Jesus.

Wait until you read Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. You will spray semen everywhere.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #13 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:33:56 PM »

Ubik rocks my socks

Robo · « **Reply #14 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:40:20 PM »

I'm pretty sure my mother bought me that PKD set for Christmas.

I also asked for a sexy Will Smith copy of I Am Legend.

TVC15 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:42:08 PM »

Quote from: RoboJ on December 12, 2007, 08:40:20 PM

I'm pretty sure my mother bought me that PKD set for Christmas.

I also asked for a sexy Will Smith copy of I Am Legend.

I hope you get this instead

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #16 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:42:57 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 12, 2007, 08:25:25 PM

Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.

What would that appeal to me?

Robo · « **Reply #17 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:44:18 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on December 12, 2007, 08:42:08 PM

Quote from: RoboJ on December 12, 2007, 08:40:20 PM
I'm pretty sure my mother bought me that PKD set for Christmas.

I also asked for a sexy Will Smith copy of I Am Legend.

I hope you get this instead

(Image removed from quote.)

Fuck, now I'm gonna have to sneak a peak.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #18 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:53:19 PM »

Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on December 12, 2007, 08:42:57 PM

Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 12, 2007, 08:25:25 PM
Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.

What would that appeal to me?

You wouldn't have to worry about crazy Muslims anymore.

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #19 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:55:58 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 12, 2007, 08:53:19 PM

Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on December 12, 2007, 08:42:57 PM
Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 12, 2007, 08:25:25 PM
Alternate reality where Germany and Japan won WWII.

What would that appeal to me?

You wouldn't have to worry about crazy Muslims anymore.

I dont worry about them.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #20 on:** December 12, 2007, 09:16:05 PM »

I read The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch over the summer. Great books.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21 on:** December 12, 2007, 09:59:13 PM »

Giving up on Blood makes me sad.

Eric P · « **Reply #22 on:** December 13, 2007, 09:53:35 AM »

two years ago i tried to read every pkd book in print over the summer.

i got through 10 of them or so at which point reality began to visibly tip so i stopped

my absolute favorite of his books is Radio Free Albemuth

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #23 on:** December 15, 2007, 03:08:56 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on December 12, 2007, 08:29:58 PM

Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 12, 2007, 07:43:35 PM
Yea, so I gave up on Blood Meridian and started reading this. Seven chapters in and it's fucking great. Why didn't I start reading PKD earlier? Jesus.

Wait until you read Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. You will spray semen everywhere.

You weren't kidding. I'm a few chapters in and my cock is already harder than it's ever been.

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Author Topic: "The Man in the High Castle" aka, Alt History FoC can agree with! (Read 2590 times)