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Eric - 2004-08-06 15:08:02 That's a really good recommendation, Eric--the amazon reviews sound very intriguing. Excerpt: "An eerie, detailed alternate history serves as the backdrop for this otherwise conventional crime thriller. The setting is Berlin, 1964, some 20 years after the Third Reich's victory in WW II. Germany and the U.S., the world's two superpowers, find themselves in a cold war resulting from a nuclear stalemate; but U.S. President Joseph P. Kennedy is soon to visit Berlin for an historic summit meeting with Hitler, clearing the way for detente." This is one of the most engrossing periods of history to read about, and even a related book like this one will be absorbing.* * * * * * * * * * * * Vince Prygoski - 2004-08-10 14:06:03 Last winter semester at U of M Flint we had a visiting lecturer from Duke U, a Marxist-Postmodernist literary theorist named Fredric Jameson. In one of his talks he referred to another of Philip Dick's books, "Time Out of Joint." So I read it and found it quite interesting. The main character thinks the year is 1959 but it is really 1998. Jameson's writings are quite interesting as well, but not very easy to grasp.* * * * * * * * * * * * Vince Prygoski - 2004-08-19 12:03:12 I am reading "The Simulacra" right now. From the back cover..."Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, the Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android." Hmmm, sounds a lot like how things are right now in Gee Dumbya Bush's America!* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-08-19 12:05:14 I like reading dystopian novels--that sounds like one. How is it so far?* * * * * * * * * * * * Vince Prygoski - 2004-08-30 11:51:15 The Simulacra is a very good book, and very scary how much it reminds me of the Corporate Puppet government of the United States. I also just read Dick's book "Radio Free Albemuth" which has a similar theme. In Radio Free Albemuth, the character Ferris Fremont is supposedly based on Richard Nixon.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |