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Review title: "What if" this novel had an ending?
Product review: As alternate history goes, "The Man in the High Castle" starts off strong, but meanders it's way to a forgetable, unfulfilling conclusion.I had heard such high praise of this work, I could barely believe I was reading the right novel. Dick draws a wonderful picture of his alternate world at the beginning of the novel, but then does very little with it.And for a Science Fiction novel to lend such weight to occult practices (i.e. fortune-telling) is almost an insult to the genre. I thought at times I was reading a New Age treatise on the I-Ching.And all of this doesn't even take into account the lackluster, anti-climactic ending, which leaves the reader in a state of general disinterest.
