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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Psihološko-filozofski roman u kojem se ne događa apsolutno ništa, ali ideja života van našeg solarnog sustava je zapravo vrlo zanimljiva! I baš zbog te ideje romanu ide veći rating.
Relectura. He disfrutado más que la primera vez. Y la primera vez ya me gustó mucho.
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Actualización:
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Primera lectura: 9 - 17 marzo 2016
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Si todo va bien, daré mi opinión (sin spoilers) en el próximo programa del podcast Ecos a 10.000km. http://ecos10milpodcast.tumblr.com/
Actualización:
Aquí tenéis mi opinión http://www.ivoox.com/s03e02-influencers-alborotadas-audios-mp3_rf_10908406_1.html
Primera lectura: 9 - 17 marzo 2016
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Sci-fi at its chilling, mysterious best. An original, creative and tense exploration of our relationship with space travel and the possibility of contact with another species.
Interesting proposal by the author, the scenarios are very descriptive and let's you get into solaris, all that happens during the story plays with the mind of the reader and allows you live through the eyes of Kelvin. Sincerely a masterpiece that should be read.
I'm not usually a huge sci-fi reader, but then neither would I actually class this as completely sci-fi. This book is set on a distant planet, light years from Earth in an age where the human race is expanding across the constellations. Besides Solaris, they've found no other life (that the story eludes to anyway) - there's this crippling undercurrent of loneliness to the story. Three scientists, each incredibly isolated on their space station, study the alien planet. The planet contains an enormous ocean that is itself a life form. It defies study, and treats the humans with as much indifference "as an ant on an elephant's back".
One of the best analogies for this book (and actually, the reason I picked it up) is given to us in Adam Curtis's fantastic documentary "Bitter Lake", which describes the US invasion of Afghanistan. Wherein the scientists pour their money, effort, years and their lives into understanding, and trying to change the 'other', they end up the ones irreversibly changed and hurt for the process, coming back with nothing.
What this book does better than any other in the genre I've read, is depict alien life believably. There's no reason to suggest an alien would be humanoid, have eyes, ears and a nose. No, its far more likely that if we ever find life, that life will be as beyond comprehension as written here.
One of the best analogies for this book (and actually, the reason I picked it up) is given to us in Adam Curtis's fantastic documentary "Bitter Lake", which describes the US invasion of Afghanistan. Wherein the scientists pour their money, effort, years and their lives into understanding, and trying to change the 'other', they end up the ones irreversibly changed and hurt for the process, coming back with nothing.
What this book does better than any other in the genre I've read, is depict alien life believably. There's no reason to suggest an alien would be humanoid, have eyes, ears and a nose. No, its far more likely that if we ever find life, that life will be as beyond comprehension as written here.
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. For us, such and such a planet is as arid as the Sahara, another as frozen as the North Pole, yet another as lush as the Amazon basin. We are humanitarian and chivalrous; we don't want to enslave other races, we simply want to bequeath them our values and take over their heritage in exchange. We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. At the same time, there is something inside us which we don't like to face up to, from which we try to protect ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we don't leave Earth in a state of primal innocence. We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us — that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence — then we don't like it any more."
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book almost single-handedly ruined the ocean (as a topic) and sci-fi (as a genre) for me. The only female character in the book (besides a “”fat black woman”” who runs through a hallway and then is never referenced again?) is a like holographic (except physically real) version of the main characters dead wife, except as her teenage self when they met. The main character (who is like 40 I think) proceeds to cycle between falling in love and trying to kill this questionably-conscious child wife. He actually does murder her at one point and she is reborn? At this point I forced myself to keep reading because of my interest in the ocean and space, I wanted to see what the big reveal was. I deeply regret this. The deep reveals about life are that of a 12 year old girls diary (I mean this with great respect to 12 year old girls and great disrespect to this elderly male author), surrounded by paragraphs full of scientific jargon that were actually meaningless when I really tried to dissect it. I guess ultimately though, I have no regrets about finishing the book. It’s honestly refreshing to hate something so much every now and then, really reminds you who you are, you know?
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
This was a weird book that I had trouble getting into at first, but ended up mostly enjoying in the end. It starts off like a horror story (when the protagonist arrives on the station, things are eerie and amiss), but turns into a more philosophical exploration of the ways in which people try (and fail) to understand a truly unknowable alien life form.
I skimmed some of the academic texts (especially the really long description of the ocean, which felt tedious and not super plot-relevant?), but thought that their inclusion was interesting in that it showed the variety of ways the people tried to apply human concepts to an inhuman thing. At the end of the book, if I understood correctly,it is revealed that Kelvin's account becomes yet another such text, which makes it feel unlikely that people have gotten much further in their understanding and attempts to communicate with the ocean.
I skimmed some of the academic texts (especially the really long description of the ocean, which felt tedious and not super plot-relevant?), but thought that their inclusion was interesting in that it showed the variety of ways the people tried to apply human concepts to an inhuman thing. At the end of the book, if I understood correctly,