• What I like best about Fiasco is Stanislaw Lem’s ability to write about impending doom in a subtle way. He escalates the situation slowly, exploring the psychological reasons that people react the way they do, and as the acts of violence increase in severity, Lem is careful not to celebrate them. Keep reading…

    What I like best about Fiasco is Stanislaw Lem’s ability to write about impending doom in a subtle way. He escalates the situation slowly, exploring the psychological reasons that people react the way they do, and as the acts of violence increase in severity, Lem is careful not to celebrate them.

    Keep reading…
    Jan
    24
    2011
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Most people read in one of two ways: they either take their time and soak things up, or they breeze through quickly. On my blog Books Under Skin, I cover the first one by offering book recommendations every Thursday and longer posts on literary issues. Here, I cover the latter, offering up the little quirks of the book world one bite at a time.
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