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From: Bob.Colwell@CMU-CS-G.ARPA
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Subject: Man in the High Castle
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Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 07:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 24 07:16:00 1984
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Have you ever been with a crowd of people whom you didn't know all that well,
and somebody tells a joke, and everyone thinks it's very funny except you,
and you just put this lame half-smile on your face and hope nobody notices?
I just read Philip Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" and got just that
feeling.  Why is this book his "greatest masterpiece"?  What was the point?
Somebody please tell me -- I had to force myself through 3/4's of the book,
and only the last 3 pages were interesting.  And I still didn't understand.
The picture on the cover was nice, though.    

Oh, yeah, one more thing.  What makes this book science fiction?  (Other
than the label on the front cover that says "Berkley (sic) science fiction")

	Bob      (Bob.Colwell@cmu-cs-g.ARPA)