Vanity - Phillip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"

[Perdogg]

I started reading my kindle edition of "The Man in the High Castle" yesterday and I am already about half-way through and I was wondering who else has read this and I am interested in other Freeper's feedback (without giving anything away).

[x]

Great concept. Execution -- not so much.

How does Canada escape conquest?

[longtermmemmory]

for the same reason Canada has no navy today.

[EveningStar]

Here are but a few other science fiction and fantasy writers who have been praised in some quarters for their writing styles:

• Edgar Pangborn
• Alfred Bester
• Gene Wolfe
• Jack Vance
• Harlan Ellison
• Stephen King

Comments? :)

[Borges]

Stephen King is not a good writer by any definition.

[EveningStar]

LOL!

Seriously, I haven’t read a book by him in years. I remember him as being an entertaining stylist but not a great plotter.

What are your misgivings with him?

[Borges]

His bad prose, one dimensional characters and lack of any original ideas whatsoever.

[EveningStar]

I’m having problems with my memory. Didn’t he have a problem with foreshadowing?