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title = "The Cyberiad - Stanisław Lem"
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date = 2018-09-14
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "stanislaw lem", "reviews", "scifi"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194.The_Cyberiad):
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A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the
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celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these
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stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to
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blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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What would happen if _Isaac Asimov_ and _Douglas Adams_ had a child? Stanislaw
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Lem.
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Ok, maybe I'm pushing the story a bit too far, 'cause that's the only book
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I've read from Lem so far, but the stories in this book really do seem a mix
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between what Asimov wrote with the nonsensical humour of Adams.
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The book revolves around stories of two "constructors", Trurl and Klaupacius
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and their adventures. And I put "constructores" with quotes 'cause, only by
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reading the synopsis is that I got that they were robots -- a thing the book
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never transpires, in a way that I thought, till now, that they were humans in
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a world were robots and humans live along. Good, bad? I can't say it.
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While the humour is there -- and I truly appreciate Adams style and reckon the
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hard work of the translators -- some pieces get too long and too nonsensical
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to be actually funny. It becomes a chore, sometimes, to read very long
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paragraphs, with a bunch of weird words (cause there is a bunch of made up
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words, like mixing "sarcastic" and "transistor" into a single word).
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It's fun overall, but not Adams fun.
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