Had never read/heard that about him and this book. Do recall that this book is almost chilling for an althist story - better than Turtledove's efforts, IMO.
If you enjoyed this one, Tom Wyner has read a number of PKD novels that can also be found on UA-cam. His Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is also very good.
I watched series a couple yrs ago & enjoyed it. My experience is books are better then the movie or series, so I couldn’t wait to start this. Im almost done listening & I enjoyed most of it. Oddly for me, I liked the tv series more as it got more in depth with the characters & story lines. Less time in the shop making purchases, which I found at times dull & slow moving in the bk. For me it felt like the book had a few ‘fillers’, making it longer, dull read at times. Thank you for putting this audiobook on UA-cam! For ppl w/ arthritic hands, I am very grateful for audiobooks on UA-cam. ☮️
If you enjoy this kind of alternate history...I ran across a book decades ago at a thrift shop. The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. It's not only alternative history but time travel...A fun romp if you like time travel stuff...I'm sure this guy was inspired by PK Dick
Almost all of Mr Turtledove's work is alternate history. His best I think is called Ruled Britannia, about how would it have happened if the Spanish Armada had been successful, and Queen Elizabeth is now a prisoner in the Tower, and Will Shakespeare gets caught being asked to write a play that has a double meaning of revolution against the Spanish.
@@atomic_zealot1818 How can you still be a baby that poop's it's pants and sucks it's thumb and still wants to suck on his mommy's tete and then peepees your pants and then gets a diaper rash? Huh? Well?
I don't know if this was an influence on the book but elements of the story reminds me of something Tolkien once said in one of his God Arguments. The details of the argument aren't all that relevant to this but the specific statement he used was " What is history to us is mythology to him and what is history to him is mythology to us." The reason why elements remind me of this is because at certain points in the story where they talk about "What if's" regarding the war or they discuss books about what if the allies won the war it is as if they are discussing mythology much the same way we discuss mythology today. Disbelief seems to just dominate the conversation just as it does when we discuss such things. It should be noted that Tolkien's statement was about how mythology is a matter of perspective and who is telling the story and who is listening to the story. His point was it maybe easy to label something as untrue but that doesn't mean it isn't true. We hear this story and think this is science fiction yet it is in a world where if they heard about our world they would think the exact same thing.
I’m just about done watching all 4 seasons on Amazon and I’m addicted to it, hate it to end. I’m excited to see the audio is here. I’m fascinated by parallel worlds, different realities, and everything related
After trying to get into it a fair few times since the it came out,I finally stuck with it,and got past the first episode and ended up addicted. The tv show ending left me confused tbh, so I'm going to start on the book and hopefully get a better ending. The book almost always ends up being better than a film or tv version and I wish I'd have read the book beforehand. I binge watched all seasons and finished around a month ago, but I want to start it over again bc its that good. It usually takes years before that happens.
@@spaceytracey1237 The plot is completely different. The ending might leave you scratching your head. It seems true to me that pkd used the i ching to actually write the book Characterization is amazing and far beyond anything seen in many science fiction books you should be in for a treat
@@spaceytracey1237 the ending is just like GOT. As in where you wait for that damn invasion for so long and then they are literally a minute away from throwing bombs yet instead they surrender. And then the bullshit nonsense of the BCR. Like there was no need for a BCR. But of course an ideology responsible for a 100 million dead is better than an ideology responsible for a 100 million dead in the minds of moronic hollywood.
We live in the The Grasshopper Lies Heavy timeline. 7:18:00 Tagomi calculates the average simple labor e b o d i e d in the object, or converts it into simple labor intensified, or to 10 yards of linen...
I decided to listen to this audiobook after watching the 4 series on Amazon Prime. They are so different in the plot and the depiction of many of the characters. However, I enjoyed both of the mediums for the story, despite their differences by telling myself that the TV series has to be more visual with more going on but the book; well that can go into much greater depth of thought. I love the narration on the book and I just put the TV series out of my mind whilst listening to it. But ....I do miss John Smith. I imagine him as the same sort of character as Thomas Cromwell as imagined by Hilary Mantell in Wolf Hall!
spoiler alert I have to say i was very surprised most of this book was about art, and artifacts, but it was actually a very practical way to show the decay of culture in america. one of my favorite parts had to be when childan demands paul appologize to him, totally epic moment ( even though he was trying to get with his wife)
This is such a work of genius and the TV series is a such a load of crap. The guys who made it must have thought: okay, lets get rid of the historical insights and ideas and make a mindless action movie for 12-year-olds, that way no one will be offended and we can make a fortune!
It doesn't have historic insight (or even insight in physics) , it's just a well written story. It just shows that a premise, no matter how ridiculous, can make a good story.
@@blauwbeer556 It has great "alternate historical" insight, i.e. what might have happened if the axis nations had won the war (which was by no means ridiculous considering all the fascist support and defeatism within the US), and it shows very sophisticated understanding of the stupid prejudices of Americans at the time (like the Bostonian who lives in the German zone and is violemtly antisemtic) and completely unjustifiable sense of superiority and simplistic prejudice of the Germans and the pig-headed chauvinism of the Japanese bureaucrat as well the refined esthetics of the young Japanese couple. It's the story that's trivial and the indepth characterization that makes the book.
Most anything before 2000 is better Lots of writers could create convey their imaginary world nowadays writers don’t have the imagination and storytelling abilities. Look they’ve done to Marvel and what they doing to Disney movies Book are sad nowadays no imagination Poorly written
Phillip K Dick was a profoundly imaginative writer. That he kept maintaining romantic relationships with profoundly psychotic women speaks volumes about his mother. Hollywood has milked his corpse with multiple adaptations of his work. That being said, when I found Man in the High Castle in the free book bin at a thrift store (where I get most of my books) I looked forward to reading it. I was profoundly disappointed. The entire book is one long post-WWII trope on what might have happened had the axis won. Many other books (Japan has an entire literary genre on this topic) have handled the topic better. Absent an imaginative wrinkle that Dick was famous for, all you have is his choppy prose to wade through. Though his most famous work, I wouldn't even include this in Dick's top ten. It makes me wonder if it was the same idiots voting to give Dick the Hugo for this that also voted to give a mediocre folk singer (Bob Dylan) the Nobel prize for literature.
Always interesting to listen to recordings that were done before Dolby Audio That's where you hear different things in each side of the speaker. You'll notice it in a lot.ofnstuff pre-2000's. It came out before that, but wasn't integrated into audio before that. Home videos are a great example of before vs after.
First session is really good but you gotta get past the first 3 episodes for it to find its rhythm. Second season really good, becomes more sci-fi. Third, slow start but great finale. Forth season not the best (lot of cast don't return) they get replaced with commies that could have shown a great dynamic/struggle but there practically shown as golden saints even when they commiting terrorist acts.. Towards the end the starts to show a lotta potential which goes nowhere by the final episode.. To be honest its not the worst season finale and it would better a better show without the final episode as its pretty disappointing.. But i really would recommend the show and overall all the positives out way the negatives. The show got cancelled and a lot of story archs never completed but the journey was still very satisfying for most.
I saw series 1st & liked it. So, the book was great. If I read bk 1st I would have felt differently. Understandably Books are always better, so I try not to compare.
I am a rationalist, but I must say that for my entire life, using the I Ching as an Oracle has always yielded uncanny results. Nowadays, we only use it in the context of role playing games, but the results have always been...useful.
@@steerpike1359 I have not gone into detail here, but let me try to explain. You agree that reflection is a useful activity, yes? That one can consider one's situation, and possibly gain some insight. There can be barriers to useful reflection. For example, one might be stuck in a rut, out of ideas or new approaches. In this case, an Oracle, like the I-Ching or Tarot Cards, presents a different arrangement of elements for consideration, as if one were provided with a another perspective. This can serve to unstick ones thinking, suggesting new ideas or solutions. An Oracle is a tool for the mind. A working Oracle requires no supernatural agency, its results are essentially random. A good Oracle provides a broad selection of suggestive elements, and some structure to display those elements so that relationships between those elements are themselves suggestive. There should also be sufficient ambiguity to allow multiple interpretations. A good Oracle is neither strict nor literal. Think of it as a brainstorming tool, like a breaker of writer's block. An Oracle is better than looking at the bottom of a well, and a good Oracle provides more potential references than blood spatters or cracks in a tortoise shell. Alternately, an Oracle can be useful as a counseling device, allowing an advisor to draw attention to various considerations, while removing the emotional sting of directly pointing out avoided conclusions. The Oracle provides distance. The I-Ching is among the best Oracles ever made because it contains a wide array of socially relevant imagery: situations, roles, conflicts, choices, strategies, and provides a method for combining those elements. One who is skilled at the Tarot can perform similarly, but in practice I have found the I-Ching better. To be clear. An Oracle is not magical in any way, and does not require any supernatural agency to work. An Oracle is a tool for cognition. A good Oracle provides Suggestion, Ambiguity, and Structured Variety.
Thanks for the audiobook! I watched the show first and it went quite far afield. I was expecting a much longer book but only bc of the show. Great read tho.
There are like a dozen characters and he has to explain and build the universe without making the book some non edited indulgent tome like we have today
And there are great storey tellers THERE are bad audio book readers and there are great audio book readers .So you Ave to adjust the speed of speech make them talk faster. I can usely judge a good audio book reader from a bad audio book reader.
Does this book ever become interesting? I’m about three hours in and…wow, what a slow start. If someone can give me a time stamp on when it picks up that would be great.
I'm not a fan of altreality, but it's a very scary thought. It actually could have come to this had some small differences in the timeline had been altered. Disappointing and unfullfilling ending.
Nah, it'd have to have been titanic, earth shattering alterations to end like this. The war was a foregone conclusion from the start (which, for example, is why Moustache had been desperate to make a peace settlement in the phoney war stage.)
I'm using MP4 Downloader, free 10 day trial and works well. Don't go for Free UA-cam Download from Digital Wave as it's a non-pro version that only downloads 30 min vids (and is hard to get rid of). Change the file to mp3 and I use sample rate of 22.050, mono, medium quality and bitrate of 32.
What Happen to Italy why didn't they a share of Power in this novel. It's like the Japanese control the pacific and the rest of Asia and Nazi control east coast, Europe and Africa but the Italians didn't get anything!
Question what you cannot question are you forgetting that one of the greatest empires sprung from italy? Thousands of battles fought and thousands more miles conquered by roman war heroes.
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Ty
Thanks!
Your awesome!!!
Thanks for taking the time to post this!!!
Hero.
5:24 "I tell you: a state is no better than its leader." Words to take to heart.
Especially in these interesting times we live in?
Borris and liz being good examples
@@fred1554fred exactly 🤣😂😃😂😃🤣🤣🤣
Or it’s people. Leaders come from the people; some are trained, some are born. Either way leaders are not a separate species.
Yes America 2020-2024
If he lasts Biden has caused America destruction
When writing this book, he ACTUALLY threw the I Ching to help him select the path of the plot for the story...
Had never read/heard that about him and this book. Do recall that this book is almost chilling for an althist story - better than Turtledove's efforts, IMO.
The I ching is pretty spooky 😅
Stopped at 13:57
That’s a brilliant idea.
It shows, the tales are all over the place!
Thank you for this audiobook. I wouldn’t have gotten past the first chapter without it.
The reader is a very good actor. Interesting concept. Big fan of Philip K. Never read this one and I'm so glad it's on audiobook :)
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If you enjoyed this one, Tom Wyner has read a number of PKD novels that can also be found on UA-cam. His Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is also very good.
the narrator is tom weiner.
@Colin Glass the narrator is tom weiner his voice is very distinct and recognizable he does alot of audio book narration
Agreed. Do androids dream and a scanner darkly are still books i go back too
I watched series a couple yrs ago & enjoyed it. My experience is books are better then the movie or series, so I couldn’t wait to start this. Im almost done listening & I enjoyed most of it. Oddly for me, I liked the tv series more as it got more in depth with the characters & story lines. Less time in the shop making purchases, which I found at times dull & slow moving in the bk. For me it felt like the book had a few ‘fillers’, making it longer, dull read at times. Thank you for putting this audiobook on UA-cam! For ppl w/ arthritic hands, I am very grateful for audiobooks on UA-cam. ☮️
Shoutout to everyone using the comments as a bookmarking service. 👏
Whoever voiced the book over did a good job.
Tom Weiner is his name.
@@TeddehSpaghetti Tom Wyner! He's read a number of PKD novels, which can all be found here on UA-cam.
I'm reading the book now, on chapter 7 so far. I almost never read books but this one is a masterpiece.
You should read more books. They’re pretty good ngl
Reading or listening?
Chapter 1: 00:00
Chapter 2: 26:25
Chapter 3: 53:00
Chapter 4: 1:23:50
Chapter 5: 1:53:29
Chapter 6:
Chapter 7: 3:16:23
Chapter 8: 3:46:38
Chapter 9: 4:08:18
Chapter 10: 4:44:59
Chapter 11: 5:19:17
Chapter 12: 5:53:32
Chapter 13: 6:27:45
Chapter 14: 7:05:14
Chapter 15: 7:50:10
If you enjoy this kind of alternate history...I ran across a book decades ago at a thrift shop. The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. It's not only alternative history but time travel...A fun romp if you like time travel stuff...I'm sure this guy was inspired by PK Dick
Fascinating.
Thank you for your recommendation. Truly a great book.
Thank you Mr Harbuck
Great recommendation .
Fascinating book.
Almost all of Mr Turtledove's work is alternate history. His best I think is called Ruled Britannia, about how would it have happened if the Spanish Armada had been successful, and Queen Elizabeth is now a prisoner in the Tower, and Will Shakespeare gets caught being asked to write a play that has a double meaning of revolution against the Spanish.
Try Casca the eternal mercenary by Barry Sadler
Ordered iron Audible now
Appreciate the time it took to record this. Much respect for your work. About to start 5 hour shift. This will get me through the night. Cheers
Great book! Thanks for the upload.
Audiobooks rock
They sure do! Especially if you have poor vision or have trouble reading and retaining. 👍
Listening now. Thanks for uploading.
I watched TThe MMMMan in the High Castle full movie here twitter.com/687e9060d9707b357/status/824452249862623232
TNH chriskazam how can you Fucking Stutter while typing
@@atomic_zealot1818 How can you still be a baby that poop's it's pants and sucks it's thumb and still wants to suck on his mommy's tete and then peepees your pants and then gets a diaper rash? Huh? Well?
@@lordstudly6000 What is wrong with you?
@@lordstudly6000 dude is everything ok at home or did your family abuse you
Very good emphasis and pauses with the Japanese characters speaking English from the actor
I had never read this Dick book. This really is a great performance.
I don't know if this was an influence on the book but elements of the story reminds me of something Tolkien once said in one of his God Arguments. The details of the argument aren't all that relevant to this but the specific statement he used was " What is history to us is mythology to him and what is history to him is mythology to us." The reason why elements remind me of this is because at certain points in the story where they talk about "What if's" regarding the war or they discuss books about what if the allies won the war it is as if they are discussing mythology much the same way we discuss mythology today. Disbelief seems to just dominate the conversation just as it does when we discuss such things. It should be noted that Tolkien's statement was about how mythology is a matter of perspective and who is telling the story and who is listening to the story. His point was it maybe easy to label something as untrue but that doesn't mean it isn't true. We hear this story and think this is science fiction yet it is in a world where if they heard about our world they would think the exact same thing.
Charles Bridges I agree
it's safe to assume every author that's written a book after LOTR was inspired by Tolkien in one way or another.
It is said the victors are the ones who get to write the history books.
That’s a solid analysis. Thanks for sharing!!
Kyle Magaro I disagree with that. There are plenty to never read Tolkien and still write excellent novels.
I’m just about done watching all 4 seasons on Amazon and I’m addicted to it, hate it to end. I’m excited to see the audio is here.
I’m fascinated by parallel worlds, different realities, and everything related
I watched it about a year ago. Overall I really enjoyed it, though it starts high and ends low. TBH.
Everything everywhere
All at once...
After trying to get into it a fair few times since the it came out,I finally stuck with it,and got past the first episode and ended up addicted.
The tv show ending left me confused tbh, so I'm going to start on the book and hopefully get a better ending.
The book almost always ends up being better than a film or tv version and I wish I'd have read the book beforehand.
I binge watched all seasons and finished around a month ago, but I want to start it over again bc its that good. It usually takes years before that happens.
@@spaceytracey1237
The plot is completely different.
The ending might leave you scratching your head.
It seems true to me that pkd used the i ching to actually write the book
Characterization is amazing and far beyond anything seen in many science fiction books you should be in for a treat
@@spaceytracey1237 the ending is just like GOT. As in where you wait for that damn invasion for so long and then they are literally a minute away from throwing bombs yet instead they surrender. And then the bullshit nonsense of the BCR. Like there was no need for a BCR. But of course an ideology responsible for a 100 million dead is better than an ideology responsible for a 100 million dead in the minds of moronic hollywood.
Fantastic and thought provoking
We live in the The Grasshopper Lies Heavy timeline. 7:18:00 Tagomi calculates the average simple labor e b o d i e d in the object, or converts it into simple labor intensified, or to 10 yards of linen...
I decided to listen to this audiobook after watching the 4 series on Amazon Prime. They are so different in the plot and the depiction of many of the characters. However, I enjoyed both of the mediums for the story, despite their differences by telling myself that the TV series has to be more visual with more going on but the book; well that can go into much greater depth of thought. I love the narration on the book and I just put the TV series out of my mind whilst listening to it. But ....I do miss John Smith. I imagine him as the same sort of character as Thomas Cromwell as imagined by Hilary Mantell in Wolf Hall!
Every time he tries to speak German, it makes me want to tear my Broca's area out with my own hands.
Lmfao 😂
spoiler alert
I have to say i was very surprised most of this book was about art, and artifacts, but it was actually a very practical way to show the decay of culture in america.
one of my favorite parts had to be when childan demands paul appologize to him, totally epic moment ( even though he was trying to get with his wife)
I have an essay on this book can you help me
@@edmundscott2905 sure, I wish I'd been assigned this book in school haha
*can't afford to watch the series*
*Listens to this instead*
*Input hackerman meme*
Lmao
Hackerman would bit torrent the series
@@mathewdennis5827 nah he would record it with a mp3 player and put it on a gameboy
Book is infinitely better then the series
book is very different than the series
I love PKD's work but this was difficult to finish. Hopefully the audiobook will help.
2:15:18
5:48:28
Really? I found the book incredibly easy to get through. I couldn't put it down.
Inversionary I also thought this was extremely difficult to finish. I didn’t take half of it in so here I am.
Pkd; there isn't a writer more capable of painting a picture with words, like Alice Munro, Stephen King, Dostoyevsky, K Dick is one of the best
This is such a work of genius and the TV series is a such a load of crap. The guys who made it must have thought: okay, lets get rid of the historical insights and ideas and make a mindless action movie for 12-year-olds, that way no one will be offended and we can make a fortune!
It doesn't have historic insight (or even insight in physics) , it's just a well written story. It just shows that a premise, no matter how ridiculous, can make a good story.
@@blauwbeer556 It has great "alternate historical" insight, i.e. what might have happened if the axis nations had won the war (which was by no means ridiculous considering all the fascist support and defeatism within the US), and it shows very sophisticated understanding of the stupid prejudices of Americans at the time (like the Bostonian who lives in the German zone and is violemtly antisemtic) and completely unjustifiable sense of superiority and simplistic prejudice of the Germans and the pig-headed chauvinism of the Japanese bureaucrat as well the refined esthetics of the young Japanese couple. It's the story that's trivial and the indepth characterization that makes the book.
@@2Hot2 You think this book has historical insights? That's sad, but I suppose to be expected with the way the education system is.
@@2Hot2 I found the series to be more enjoyable, tbh.
@@jimmydesouza4375 Read my reply to the other obnoxious troll above.
This is some serious usage.
This dude can WRITE o.o
He read a lot about nazis
Better than the woke west world today.
Most anything before 2000 is better
Lots of writers could create convey their imaginary world
nowadays writers don’t have the imagination and storytelling abilities.
Look they’ve done to Marvel and what they doing to Disney movies
Book are sad nowadays no imagination
Poorly written
Love the reader(s)
HighTimeTunes a
What's with all the bookmarks? Unusual and I've seen other audiobook UA-cam videos
They are used like a normal bookmark. It keeps your place if you can't finish the audio book in one sitting.
1:15:29 attempts to explain Klaus and Yuval.
Bookmark 8:00:00
Phillip K Dick was a profoundly imaginative writer. That he kept maintaining romantic relationships with profoundly psychotic women speaks volumes about his mother.
Hollywood has milked his corpse with multiple adaptations of his work.
That being said, when I found Man in the High Castle in the free book bin at a thrift store (where I get most of my books) I looked forward to reading it. I was profoundly disappointed.
The entire book is one long post-WWII trope on what might have happened had the axis won. Many other books (Japan has an entire literary genre on this topic) have handled the topic better.
Absent an imaginative wrinkle that Dick was famous for, all you have is his choppy prose to wade through. Though his most famous work, I wouldn't even include this in Dick's top ten.
It makes me wonder if it was the same idiots voting to give Dick the Hugo for this that also voted to give a mediocre folk singer (Bob Dylan) the Nobel prize for literature.
Wanna read my stuff?
Never post another comment ever again.
I suppose it’s a good thing genetics seems to be poorly or not understood at this point, or this could be even more intense
Great narrator!
Bookmark 1:20:00
Here follows a brief overview of the Tory manifesto.
cheers, mate
Always interesting to listen to recordings that were done before Dolby Audio
That's where you hear different things in each side of the speaker. You'll notice it in a lot.ofnstuff pre-2000's. It came out before that, but wasn't integrated into audio before that. Home videos are a great example of before vs after.
own bookmark: 52:52
26:30
Have not seen the series yet. Any input?
It's terrible. Huge letdown for me. It seemed to me to have been produced with a teenage viewership being the target audience. Terrible.
Go figure....
First session is really good but you gotta get past the first 3 episodes for it to find its rhythm.
Second season really good, becomes more sci-fi.
Third, slow start but great finale.
Forth season not the best (lot of cast don't return) they get replaced with commies that could have shown a great dynamic/struggle but there practically shown as golden saints even when they commiting terrorist acts.. Towards the end the starts to show a lotta potential which goes nowhere by the final episode.. To be honest its not the worst season finale and it would better a better show without the final episode as its pretty disappointing.. But i really would recommend the show and overall all the positives out way the negatives. The show got cancelled and a lot of story archs never completed but the journey was still very satisfying for most.
@@bretteveretthowell3276 thanks
@@YungMonie007 thanks
I saw series 1st & liked it. So, the book was great. If I read bk 1st I would have felt differently. Understandably Books are always better, so I try not to compare.
I am a rationalist, but I must say that for my entire life, using the I Ching as an Oracle has always yielded uncanny results. Nowadays, we only use it in the context of role playing games, but the results have always been...useful.
So, in other words, you are NOT a rationalist. A true rationalist wouldn't give the I Ching any more credit than he would a wishing well.
@@steerpike1359 I have not gone into detail here, but let me try to explain.
You agree that reflection is a useful activity, yes? That one can consider one's situation, and possibly gain some insight. There can be barriers to useful reflection. For example, one might be stuck in a rut, out of ideas or new approaches.
In this case, an Oracle, like the I-Ching or Tarot Cards, presents a different arrangement of elements for consideration, as if one were provided with a another perspective. This can serve to unstick ones thinking, suggesting new ideas or solutions.
An Oracle is a tool for the mind. A working Oracle requires no supernatural agency, its results are essentially random. A good Oracle provides a broad selection of suggestive elements, and some structure to display those elements so that relationships between those elements are themselves suggestive. There should also be sufficient ambiguity to allow multiple interpretations. A good Oracle is neither strict nor literal.
Think of it as a brainstorming tool, like a breaker of writer's block.
An Oracle is better than looking at the bottom of a well, and a good Oracle provides more potential references than blood spatters or cracks in a tortoise shell.
Alternately, an Oracle can be useful as a counseling device, allowing an advisor to draw attention to various considerations, while removing the emotional sting of directly pointing out avoided conclusions. The Oracle provides distance.
The I-Ching is among the best Oracles ever made because it contains a wide array of socially relevant imagery: situations, roles, conflicts, choices, strategies, and provides a method for combining those elements. One who is skilled at the Tarot can perform similarly, but in practice I have found the I-Ching better.
To be clear.
An Oracle is not magical in any way, and does not require any supernatural agency to work.
An Oracle is a tool for cognition.
A good Oracle provides Suggestion, Ambiguity, and Structured Variety.
Thanks for the audiobook! I watched the show first and it went quite far afield. I was expecting a much longer book but only bc of the show. Great read tho.
Bookmark: 8:01:15
I loved this novel. I pity the illiterate masses.
Len Deigtons book titled SS-GB is on a similar theme.
I have a first edition of SS-GB from a library book sale for just a dollar. One of the very best investments I ever made.
The series is almost nothing like the book.
@@gusklimt2031 yeah, they have just picked the basic idea and ran with it. I liked the series version too though.
Gus Klimt a scanner darkly is kinda closer
The series is dumbed down beyond belief. I'm surprised the roles for humans weren't adapted for chimpanzees.
@@gusklimt2031 A Scanner Darkly is a pretty solid adaptation as well
Thank you
Chapter 4
1:23:48 book page 56
The way the author wrote the Japanese as if they were Tolkien elves is one of the strangest things I have ever listened to.
Great, I loved it :)
Wonderful
Bookmark 40:54
The grasshopper lays heavy 3:00:00
Loved the series, book is just a germ of the idea. The characters are hardly fleshed out and that was a dampener.
There are like a dozen characters and he has to explain and build the universe without making the book some non edited indulgent tome like we have today
A mini-series paraphrased on the book, placed in Palestine 2040, Israel never happend... Yet! 'The second coming'
Who is the reader?
Anyone who has a good grasp of ww2 find it shocking how courteous to foreign cultures the imperial Japanese are portrayed?
So far so good
Think I'm hearing a fiction of the '1984' genre.
Super Mario enters at about 4:25:05.
I like this, they should make a film of it, or even better a TV show, just an idea.
3:01:45 - personal book mark ;)
6:27:41
For all of you claiming its boring, I dont agree
I love Mr Tagomi 🇯🇵
Bookmark 1:29
And there are great storey tellers THERE are bad audio book readers and there are great audio book readers .So you Ave to adjust the speed of speech make them talk faster. I can usely judge a good audio book reader from a bad audio book reader.
Does this book ever become interesting? I’m about three hours in and…wow, what a slow start. If someone can give me a time stamp on when it picks up that would be great.
I'm not a fan of altreality, but it's a very scary thought. It actually could have come to this had some small differences in the timeline had been altered. Disappointing and unfullfilling ending.
Nah, it'd have to have been titanic, earth shattering alterations to end like this. The war was a foregone conclusion from the start (which, for example, is why Moustache had been desperate to make a peace settlement in the phoney war stage.)
Narrated by who
What's the timestamp for chapter 2?
26:28
Is there a way to download audio books for free?
I'm using MP4 Downloader, free 10 day trial and works well. Don't go for Free UA-cam Download from Digital Wave as it's a non-pro version that only downloads 30 min vids (and is hard to get rid of). Change the file to mp3 and I use sample rate of 22.050, mono, medium quality and bitrate of 32.
Go to internet archive.
30:00 in case I fall asleep😄
good book.thanks!
Neat book.
33:44 personal bookmark
Does this actually go anywhere? I'm 4hr 37m in.
No. Snooze fest.
I am at 5:30 and it’s no better. It’s like a sinking stock - I should sell & get out but I choose to stay in & hope
What Happen to Italy why didn't they a share of Power in this novel. It's like the Japanese control the pacific and the rest of Asia and Nazi control east coast, Europe and Africa but the Italians didn't get anything!
Italy didn't even take over Ethiopia... That's how bad they were.
The shortest book ever written........
The book of Italian war heroes.
Shannon Smart Italy did take over Ethiopia in 1936.
Question what you cannot question are you forgetting that one of the greatest empires sprung from italy? Thousands of battles fought and thousands more miles conquered by roman war heroes.
Weak ads Italians😂
6:39 (bookmarking my page)
That Japanese accent is pretty Gnarly
It’s fucking hilarious
HAIL THE SUN
watching it on pc - POPCORN 👉🍿🔦🎥
Bookmark
1:06:01
FINISHED
11/27/20
1:23:42
1:40:15
1:12:07 bookmark
I can't tell if someone is really reading, or if it's an AI.
Then you need your ears tested.
Vigorously read :-)
time for new equipment
The audio has rattle/distortion.
44:20
Wie Geil!
Wie Geil!
Wie Geil!
The High Castle = THC
Had THC even been identified when this was written?
Enjoyable 🍕-LikeTheMe. Great Literature!
The TV series are quite graphical 😨
7:25
Man this novel was just an antique show and people playing I cing for 5 hours lol...
What the hell is this book
15:14