I have only read The Man in the High Castle. It was ok, but the dialog seemed unnatural (did people really talk like that in the 1960s?) and it seemed to end abruptly. It hinted that one character had temporarily shifted into our reality (where the Allies won WWII) but it didn't follow through with that... it just ended. I've heard PKD had started to write a sequel but it ended up becoming a totally different story (I can't remember which one).
I started to read Counter-Clock World but it was just too weird. If time was moving backwards (or whatever, I didn't get far enough into it to find out exactly what was going on) wouldn't people be talking backwards, walking backwards, unlearning things, etc? It just didn't work. It might have worked better as a zombie story without the backwards time element.
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