Am I the only one who thought that "Solaris" was a brilliant book? I liked Tarkovsky's film version of the book and all, but the book was 1.452 million times better. What an incredible book!

Who else loved it?

Has anyone seen that fucking Hollywood interpretation of Lem's wonderful book? From what I understand, they tried to make it into a love story... sigh.

You uncultured swine!

I got learned real good in skool... by the way - Any good nut scratching stories in it?

IceNine said:

Yeah, that be me. I just live here

IceNine said:

Go read another book, you over-educated fuck.

Am I the only one who thought that "Solaris"

i read people magazine last night...

Solaris sounds like Solero.
And that just made me really hungry U bastad!!!

Wasn't "Sphere" kind of a "Solaris" rip-off?

IstenSzek said:

Well... there was a certain element of a tiny part of "Solaris" in "Sphere," but it wasn't really like "Solaris" in any real sense.

By the way, everyone should read "Solaris," it is great!

you know ice it doesnt count unless you read an original polish edition

jubalH said:

Damn... I am fucked in my inability to read any language other than English! FUCK ME!!!



Well, the English translation was good!

Damn you bunch of literature haters!!!

:EVIL:

Where is 2the9s when you need him??? He is bound to love this book!!!

Hello, 2the9s??? Prove to me that there is someone here who has read this masterwork.

*you bunch of haters of Polish writers*

Ice,stop pretending you're a lone voice crying in the wilderness... I read the book, but only AFTER I saw the movie.

As for the remake, it hasn't yet reached our shores but I refuse to see it.

My guess is it will be the most pointless remake since Gus Van Sant's 'Psycho', which just brought tears (of rage) to my eyes.

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giotto said:

Yeah... what the fuck were they thinking re-making "Psycho," for fuck's sake???!!!

One can only assume that Tarkovsky would come back from the dead and murder each person in the cast and crew of that remake.

Did you, like me, think that the book was a billion times better than even Tarkovsky's wonderful film?

IceNine said:

Sorry, never heard of it. But I will check it out (after I start on my Vonnegut assignment lol)

Hey, you got me to revisit Bowles, isn't that enough? Between you and Istenszek I can hardly keep up!

2the9s said:

Bowles is another of my heroes! Now get to the reading! :LOL:

Still trying to find people who have read this wonderful book... so far we have Giotto and myself.

Who else???

IceNine said:

I will tell you I have in a week and two days!

I've heard of him...but no.

teller said:

Read "Solaris," goddamn you!!!

:EVIL:

IceNine said:

Why should I? Every slob wants me to read their drivel!!!

teller said:

You will see why when you finally break down and read it... it is absolutely brilliant.

IceNine said:

Fine...and you go read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand.

teller said:

Uh-Oh... you said "fine"...

A little more information:

Book Description
Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. Scientists speculate that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, its purpose in doing so unknown.
The first of Lem's novels to be published in America and now considered a classic, SOLARIS raises a question: Can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?

http://www.amazon.com/exe...58-8703005

wow look at the size of my intellect ive read solaris

and anthem (Ayn Rand)

bet none of you have read "behold the man" Michael Moorcock

NANANANA i win


btw havent seen either solaris film

is the stephen soderbergh film crap cos its not like the book or crap cos its just crap

i like the word crap please try to slip it in to some of your discussions today

jubalH said:

A new face? Welcome to the org!

jubalH said:

First: Did you like "Solaris?"

Second: I am sure that the Soderberg interpretation sucks because they are pitching it as a love story!!! :EVIL:

IceNine said:

i wasnt that fussed on solaris

however the reason i read it was because i read a quote from lems pr man some bloke called ravosky or something like that saying how lem thought american sci-fi writers were basically intellectual pigmies, also he was rather disparaging about one of my favourite authors robert a heinlein

so when i found a secondhand copy of solaris i thought "ok ya polish twat lets see what you can do"

not conducisive to a balanced read!

Lem is obviously an intellectual i just wish he didnt keep telling me, i will be honest i found solaris an intellectual puzzle and my box had some pieces missing

Ive still got it filed away in that OCD way of mine next to a couple of Ursula Le Guin ive not read so now that hollywood has adopted it perhaps i should re read it lol

must stop repeating the the word intellectual ive obviously got a chip on my shoulder