false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175236431m/497121.jpg 497121 8 The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose. 485271 1960 Memoirs Found in a Bathtub total:258|5:63|4:99|3:72|2:21|1:3| 258 972 363 27 4 2 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Aug 31 19:43:50 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 19:43:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 12 13:17:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:18:22 -0700 2009
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanslaw Lem follows the adventures of an agent-in-training as he wanders in search of a mission through the vast bureaucracy of a purposeless intelligence agency.

The agent is anonymous. But we can call him K - because the story, t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 00:40:05 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 08:00:38 -0800 2009
Follow the confused and paranoia-driven encounters of a government agent as he navigates the exaggeratedly complex and ridiculous set of codes and regulations enforced by the other inhabitants...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 20:35:08 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 11:59:19 -0800 2008 1
This book brings up many more questions than answers. My biggest one pertains to the narrat...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Mon Oct 29 21:59:53 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 22:01:34 -0700 2007
Alex told me to check out Lem so I picked this out randomly. At first it seemed to be wandering along with no point... but this is Life, right? Once I realized that the Building was Life (around p. 100) I got much more out of the book.

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