/lit/ - Literature

How does it compare to awarded Tarkovskij's movie?

Post the current book you're reading followed by the previous 4 you read and a short review

>Solaris in expectation of the /sffg/ reading month
It's uniquely disturbing, I can't remember the last thing I read/watched/played that struck me with this level of uncanny surrealism
Reminds me of Lovecraft's better stories but better articulated
>The Voice From the Edge Vol 1
I got into it only for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream but goddamn if I didn't stick around for the rest of Ellison's work, I don't know why I hadn't ever read any of it before
A Boy and His Dog and Grail were particularly good
>Accelerando
Wack ass fucking book, absolutely loved a lot of it and how it was kind of a deconstruction of boundless transhumanism
The sentient corporations and economics beyond human understanding particularly fucked me up
>New York: 2140
Classic KSR, might be my favorite by him so far, if not in setting, at least in the storytelling style
All of the characters were really intricate and aside from ONE I really liked them
>Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said for last month's reading
Was slightly more grounded than the other PKD stuff I've read, but the explanation at the end was really unneeded
Liked the Epilogue though

>>9774760
Solaris. Hands down.
If you're looking for something more like an actual 'culture' of aliens I'd have to recommend the Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.

This book was a fucking page-turner for me.
It got me back into 'actual reading'
Where can I get more stuff like this?
Hit me with your recs /lit/

>tfw no ocean Rheya gf

I loved this and Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
(sorry, I'm new to /lit)

Okay, /lit/, just finished pic related.

My quick thoughts:
>Decent characterization of Kelvin and Snaut
>Great world building that seemed jarringly out of place for a novel of this short length
>Philosophical ideas were introduced as surface level claims and then never substantiated with further in-depth analysis
>Intentional ambiguous prose came off as an annoyance and failed to create the childlike wonder I can only assume Lem was going for
>Far too many detours of convoluted imaginary scientific terminologies, names and histories
>Ironically inconclusive ending

Overall, it was an underwhelming read tbqh. What do you guys think?

Is the Ocean the most terrifying sci-fi concept to ever be created ? Omnipotent, supposedly omniscient, unclear motivation, impossible to understand, was it truly a God in the making ? What is a God in that concept, something that is impossible for humanity to understand, simply because of it's superiority over us ? Also, what was with Sartorius and the straw hats ?