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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
To all contributors:
I want to thank all contributors here for maintaining a courteous stance with one another as we discuss in a fun way the real stinkaroos and horrible booboos from (some) authors who really need to find a day job and stay as far away from a typewriter [note: an antiquarian device that makes impressions on paper] or computer as possible.
Now, where are some of those horrible books and writers we were talking about? 
Don (Moderator)
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I like reading these threads, because most people at least attempt to explain why they like or dislike the book(s). This allows me to calibrate how much I agree or disagree, and lets me judge whether I'll like or dislike a particular book or author. It can be just as valuable to consistently disagree with someone as consistently agree.
For my contribution, I really dislike Stanislaw Lem's Solaris. I read it as part of a class many years ago, and found both the book's concept and execution intensely depressing. It's possible that the execution was an artifact of the translation, but when I read it, I didn't even realize it was originally written in a different language. I've never been able to bring myself to read anything else by this author, even though he's considered one of the classic Eastern European SF writers. I just shudder, and put it down again.