What went wrong, Veeky Forums?

What went wrong, Veeky Forums?

By trying to do some terrible espionage-plot

can someone genuinelly explain what the fuck the "plot" was?

the plot isn't the point of the book dummy

>he reads PKD for the plot
lmao

>he reads PKD
lmao

Many things went wrong. Germany didn't pursue the bomb, for one. There were many tactical mistakes on Germany's part. But I think the greatest mistake is the one the western allies made- not joining Hitler in the war against the Soviets. The world would be such a great place now if that had been the case.

>he reads
lmao

Nothing. It's a neat spin on Dick's usual themes.

He tried too hard for this one. Most of his other books seem to have been spontaneously written and kind of freeflowing, but in this one, he claims that he researched a shitton about the Nazis just to write it, even though it seems like a pretty short, simple, self-contained book. He was apparently reading a bunch of rare genuine manuscripts of Nazi's diaries that he could only find in some University's library that was letting him go there, and he claimed that it fucked him up and the reason he couldn't write a sequel was because the reading of it all was emotionally too much for him. So, part of the reason a lot of PKD fans/readers dislike it is that it's much more steeped in minutiae, much more artificial than his other works.

He also claimed that he wrote it with the help of the I Ching, similar to how the characters use the I Ching in the book. I think he used it to plot certain events, and also actually flipped it and transcribed it whenever his characters used it in the book. However, he also said the I Ching couldn't help him write the ending (which does suck), and ultimately claimed the I Ching was controlled by the spirit of Satan, giving some good answers but supposedly giving the worst answers at the worst time to trick you.

He was a strange guy.