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I keep seeing comments various places that "Lem is like Kafka." I've never read Kafka. I felt I should make that clear before diving into any sort of opinion, but I'll add it to my list.
This book brings up many more questions than answers. My biggest one pertains to the narrator. Is he reliable? Throughout what we read, he is being taught that everything is code, and symbolic, and that everyone is a triple agent (or more, the wonders of illogical math). So is what we're reading anything close to ...more
This book brings up many more questions than answers. My biggest one pertains to the narrator. Is he reliable? Throughout what we read, he is being taught that everything is code, and symbolic, and that everyone is a triple agent (or more, the wonders of illogical math). So is what we're reading anything close to ...more
At first it seemed like this was going to be a re-tread of Kafka's "surreal bureaucratic nightmare" territory, given some sci-fi window-dressing. But Lem provides some original, absurd and sometimes hilarious takes on different forms of paranoia, and also some of the most vivid imagery I've ever read from him. Still too uneven to be a knock-out, but intriguing and holds some flashes of brilliance.
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