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King Matt the First
by Janusz Korczak
· published 1923 · read 2002-07-01
★★★☆☆
Maciuś (as he is called in the original and in the German translation) becomes the king at a very young age. Despite his advisors, he enacts a set of bold reforms, trying to improve people's lives. It all goes wrong after a while, because ruling is complex, as it turns out, and also people are not exactly cooperative.
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
· published 1961 · read 2013-11-01
★★★☆☆
Solaris is creepy, but in a good way. One of the relatively few earlier scifi books that spoke to me. A bit too kafkaesque for my taste, maybe, but good execution nevertheless. The foggy planet is creepy even before it starts doing things.
The Last Wish
by Andrzej Sapkowski
· published 1993 · read 2021-11-04
★★★☆☆
Finally catching up with some European fantasy – I haven't watched the show, but I've played some of the games, and I'm generally aware of what's going on in-universe. I knew the book was fairly episodic going into it, which might have been a problem otherwise.
Die Stimme des Herrn
by Stanisław Lem
· published 1968 · read 2022-04-24
★☆☆☆☆
Did not finish. Dense, philosophical, felt deeply pointless and like I was just waiting for it to be over. The alien message gets never decoded, and everything is grey and sucks. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.