The story is told first-person, transitioning to a chunked diary-style format for the last third of the book and there were moments where I felt presages of the book Fiasco in the tone and style of the story-telling. That said, once the introductions were complete and the main plot kicked in I enjoyed the story and the humour. It did take me a little while to get into the mood for this book, the sarcasm is not so much tongue-in-cheek as tongue-through-cheek, it's not subtle. A lot of the latter part of the book contains words that Lem created and being able to see the words spelled out on the page and thus analyse them for the implied (and probably sarcastic) etymology would have added to the fun.
Good story, but maybe better ingested visually.įirst off, this was a good book, but I think one that I would have appreciated a lot more if I'd read it rather than listened to it.
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