The Man in the High Castle

No me gusta la manera de narrar de este autor. Ya me pasó con Ubik y lo he podido volver a comprobar en esta segunda oportunidad. Me resulta innecesariamente farragoso. Su escritura no es intrincada por ser profunda, sino que simplemente le salen unas frases rarísimas. Quizá la traducción que me ha llegado no fuese la mejor, ya que era una edición muy vieja de bolsillo. O a lo mejor yo no estoy en mi mejor momento como lector, qué sé yo...

La trama no se pone interesante hasta más allá de la mitad del libro y como ucronía resulta bastante decepcionante. Su estructura no ayuda en nada, sino que te pierde. El autor no te proporciona contexto suficiente y tardas mogollón en hacerte una idea de las cosas.

¿Algo bueno? El argumento es a priori atractivo y el final es interesante. Su ambigüedad da que pensar.

P.S. En la portada de mi edición aparece un puto robot, lo cual es sin duda publicidad engañosa.

I read this book because I'd seen a couple of episodes of the TV series. Honestly, as usual, the book is better. They took a lot of liberties with the series (only way to stretch a relatively short book that long,) and the characters are sometimes quite different.

This is classic Phillip K. Dick. Dystopian alternative future. It's very conceptual, rather than character-driven, although a couple of the characters are better developed than the rest. Worth a read, for sure.

Lots of effort is made to set up a very believable world in which the Axis powers defeated the Allies and split America into three. We follow the main characters through events that lead them to various conclusions. As tension heightens the narrative centres on a book, a work of fiction in which the Axis powers were defeated by the Allies and Britain and America divide the world between them, and how difficult it would be to live in that world. There are various twists along the way as the story of each character reaches a conclusion. The final twist though is left until the last few pages, and then we are left hanging.
No explanation of how it could be. Was it a figment of the characters imagination, a dream, or was it really true, and if so how could it be that the world was as the book has described it.

A fascinating world becomes real in the reading, but the end lets it down

or did I miss something?