The Man in the High Castle

>Alt history

You brought this on yourself

because dude nazis lmao

>>8627943
Felt the same way, super over hyped book

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>>8627945
This, one hundred times! Alt-history will never lives up to your expectations.
Now, if you actually want QUALITY fiction with the Nazi "aesthetic" check out The Sound of His Horn. It's scifi/fantasy.

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>dude I asked Chinese dominoes to write a book for me LMAO

>>8627963
>what's it say?
>It says the book really happened
>Oh ok that's cool I guess, well see you later.

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>>8627943

Personally I just enjoyed the book for its ability to feel mundane despite the actual circumstances being far from it. You end up being caught in the lives of these people rather than the concept of an alternate timeline itself.

>>8628124
This is why it's literature. Everybody who bitches about the book was expecting some Anime shit with big factions/complex hierarchies plotting and warring against one another, everybody wearing pseudo-BDSM nazi shit.

Instead, they got a slice of life from an alternate reality, with some weird I-ching shit thrown in.

>>8627943
I think the book's reputation is based on people half-remembering the basic concept and thinking "hey that was pretty cool". The actual book itself struggles to get anything going and turns into nothing in its second half. It would have been better as a short story.

>>8628124
I agree, I think that the detachment in the way certain events are presented give it a haunted quality. How its passingly that the entirety of the African people were liquidated; how the Mediterranean was drained for farmland, or how one of the Jewish characters had nightmares about getting sent to the Lunar Concentration camps - they mention all these things as though they're mundane realities, while to us they're obviously not.