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Solaris by Stanisław Lem
1.0

I cant quite understand the point of this book. Why it’s considered to be so “great” is beyond me. None of the themes be it existential dread, extraterrestrial life, ghosts of the past etc, were particularly fleshed out. Even the whole ocean thing??? The best way used to describe it was sentient space jelly??? How unimaginative. 
All this book really is about the guy being obsessed with his ex and having a hard time letting go of her. Even the science-y bits seemed stupid. Also why does no one talk about the obvious racist tone within the book. On god there are better books than this to read. This was an unfunny, flat piece of uninteresting garbage.