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georgian:
i try next time :) what is lem's best book your mind? Without magellan nebula
Terminus:
Oh well, that's a HAAAARD question:) I'll tell you this way: my own personal favourite is Fiasco (Polish: "Fiasko"), but this book is not very popular. BUT I don't think it is the BEST of Lem's book objectively. I know Lem himself always said that his own favourite, and the one he considered his best, was Cyberiad ("Cyberiada"), or maybe Solaris.
Cyberiad is indeed a work of genius - it is imaginative, and VERY FUNNY. So if you like funny books, read it. Solaris on the other hand, is very serious - phylosophically deep, emotional. It's not an easy book. Fiasco is actually sad:)
Of course there are also very popular Tales of Pirx the Pilot which are entertaining, quite serious, and have romantical sense of adventure.
But if I had to tell you only ONE book of Lem, I would definitely say Solaris or Cyberiad.
Regards!
georgian:
Thank you for answer :) i hope i will find lem's other books...
Terminus:
I would gladly send you some if they're hard to find; we have billions of old Lem's books here they're almost laying on the streets:) But they're all in Polish!
I can't imagine how Lem's book would even look like in Georgian. You have this beatufil letters, like საქართველო, they're just great.
Nicolai:
I envy you georgian. I wish I'd encountered the imaginative worlds of Lem earlier in life.
--- Cytat: Terminus w Maja 21, 2011, 11:27:57 am ---... we have billions of old Lem's books here they're almost laying on the streets:)
--- Koniec cytatu ---
Ha, are any of them signed? ;)
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