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Solaris - Stanisław Lem, Jean-Michel Jasiensko, Joanna Kilmartin, Steve Cox
Solaris
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780156837507 (0156837501)
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
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The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it
4.0 How do you talk to an ocean
(but maybe, we should worry more about how the ocean would try to talk to us) It's a very disturbing read from the start, and you can feel the disquiet grip you into the pages immediately, but it's pretty dense and it can get dry. Know what this reminded me off a lot? "Moby Dick". It's those ess...
Reading For The Heck Of It
Reading For The Heck Of It rated it
2.0 Stanislaw Lem: A Masterpost
The premise is that a scientist is sent to Solaris (a planet with a space station) only to discover that the 3 inhabitants which he was meant to meet have been reduced to two. Our main character, Kris Kelvin, arrives hoping to crack the enigma of the alien ocean which comprises the whole of the plan...
Sushicat
Sushicat rated it
4.0 An Alien Encounter of a Truly Different Kind
I really liked the beginning and found it extra creepy. Once the situation became clearer, I liked some of the topical excursions, like the one into the development of the scientific field of Soleriana or the more philosophical aspects and others less, like the minute descriptions of certain phenome...
TezMillerOz
TezMillerOz rated it
3.0 Solaris
I read every word of the first half. Then I skim-read. Had trouble keeping focus.
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it
4.0 Solaris
Even if this is the alleged "bad translation" I still really got into it. It's scary and slow. I love reading about humans confronting the truly alien and realizing their limits.
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