The Man in the High Castle

What's your opinion of this book? Is it legit?
Also, is the tv show any good?

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Everything PKD is red pilled to the extreme. Great book.

The tv show is decent, season 1 anyway. Haven't seen season 2.

book yes reading expands the mind

Tv no it fries your brains

it's a lot more sympathetic to the japanese than to the nazis, honestly

if you're smart i'm sure you can figure everything out though

The show is GOAT, don't know if this was the goal of the producers but it was a bit of a redpill.

Never read the book and the TV show is okay.

Episode 9 probably has the best scene where Rudolph puts on his SS uniform to some good music.

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Great as in "wtf I love hitler now" or great as in a well told cautionary tale? I can't tell on Sup Forums

haven't seen the show desu, but it looks like a perfect world to me

that's because it starts in 6 days, nerd. it isn't out yet.

Just finished the 1st season if the TV show, and it's pretty good. Obergrupenfuhrer Smith is a badass. All of the Nazis are comically evil, while the Japanese arent nearly as so. Some weird metaphysical shit happens near the end if the first season and I don't really know what to make of it. Hopefully it doesn't go full retard with the second season.

>tv show
haven't watched
>book
there are better alternative history fictions but it is good but it's use of I Ching is ridiculous. I Ching is more of what Chinese do than Japanese

All of Dick's books are paradigm altering.
The show takes liberties on the book, so it's different, but still in keeping with the book's basic idea.
It's worth watching just for the entertainment value.

I read like 20 of his books but somehow I missed this one. Dont want to read it now because the author likes to repeat the same ideas in multiple books but if someone never read anything from this guy it's worth a shot.

Tv show has an amazing atmosphere but suffers from boring main characters (except the nazi guy) and stupid plot development. 7/10 and probably not going to get any better.

The episode with jap prince was goat tho :^)

The book is really good up until the end. It just felt like an abrupt stop. Although, having Rommel rebuild NYC was a class touch. And I did kind of enjoy seeing the two bumpkins make their own jewelry and seeing the nip get pissed that he didn't understand it.

Good analysis. I've watched season 1 twice and the only character I can name off the top of my head was the Nazi. The other characters are literally who's.

They did do a good job of showing cultural differences and tensions between the Germans and Japs, though.

TV show is shit. I fell for the Sup Forums memes.
The main characters is a woman that does the dumbest thing you'll ever see.
Her sister got killed because she has a super video that can possibly defeat the nazi propaganda.
So she get the video and decides to bring it to where her sister should have.
But her husband who is 1/8 jewish gets arrested and interrogated about his wife.
His sister who is also 1/8 jewish is killed with her children.
Meanwhile his wife is flirting with a undercover nazi (which of course will betray the nazi because muh impossible love) and when she get home, she don't even give a fuck about her husband getting tortured and his sister getting killed.
Then she gets a job in the nazi japan administration.
Fucking dumb shit.
Only good part were Obergrupenfuhrer Smith and the old japanese nazi plot.
The rest is utter retarded bluepill shit.
I'm mad i wasted time listening to Sup Forums

Also
>muh ashes that comes form nazi cremating sick and old people
>muh nazis are rapists
>if you 1/10 jewish you're gassed on the spot.

don't fall for the memes, it's shit.

where can i watch this show

Extremely retarded book.

Nazi Germany had no chance of winning the war in the long run, let alone conquering the United States. Japan even less so.

t. German population 1939: 78 million, Japanese population 1939: 72 million, United States population 1939: 131 million

That means for a joint Japanese-German invasion force to even stand a stance at defeating the US, they would need at minimum, a 2:1 kill ratio per man.

US forces averaged a 6:1 kill ratio (US forces killed a total of 830,000 German troops at the expense of 139,000 US troops) against the Germans and even larger against the Japanese.

On top of that, the Germans inflicted a 13:1 kill ratio against the Soviets and were still not only driven out of the Soviet Union, but the Soviets swept over them and drove to the very heart of Berlin.

And let's not even get started on comparing US and Japanese-German industrial capacity.

It's an Amazon original

One of my favorite books. Pkd is great if you want some insightful sci fi novels

Does this go for both the book and the show?
I was thinking about getting the book, but if this is the case I definitely will not.

He didn't have all the data you have back in 1961. He was too busy eating horse meat to stay alive. And if you're going hold a literal schizophrenic like PKD under scientific or historic scruinity, then you'll be disappointed with every page.

You are way over-simplifying war. The US had such a high KD vs the Germans because they joined at the tail end of the war, after Germany was already on the back foot. When the first joined the war, the Americas took massive losses since they weren't accustomed to German technology and combat might. But as the German supplies and professional soldiers ran out, their KD skyrocketed.

I think the stories is that they dropped nukes on important cities.
Like USA never really had to set a foot in japan and invade most of it to make them surrender.
But it's not really explained. It's just an alternateur reality.
Which is cool to imagine.
But it's done in a manner that is si retarded that it makes no sense to feel anything for the characters.

Washington was nuked and burgers surrendered, you can figure it out from the intro and some hints in the dialogues.

>US forces averaged a 6:1 kill ratio (US forces killed a total of 830,000 German troops at the expense of 139,000 US troops) against the Germans
According to the book "Citizen Soldiers", the combat casualty rate was roughly 1:1.

War is about muh k/d kek
You are either a 14 and play to much cawwa dooti or you are fucking retarded.
War is literally about supply lines and moral you fucking nincompoop not kill to death ratio.