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Old 11-01-2009, 10:28 AM   #40
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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.
The version published in the U.S. is actually an English translation of the French translation of the original Polish.
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