Childhood's End/Solaris

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saorsadaonnan

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Hello all, first post here.<br /><br />Wondering if any of you have read either of these, and what you might have thought. Particularly, I'm interested in what you thought about them stylistically, tonally, and how these relate to whatever term postmodernists use in place of message. <br /><br />(No, I'm not doing a book report)<br /><br />Also, have any of you read Lem's other work (I have not) or seen Tarkovsky's movie version?<br /><br />Thanks
 
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wmdragon

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Childhood's End was the first - and one of the very few - scifi novels to make me cry. apocalyptic but in a hopeful, transcendental way. an absolute end and a beginning, as the title suggests.<br /><br />havent read Solaris, just watched the two movies. some people get frustrated with the unexplained, but I very much appreciate the concept of the truly alien the story deals with. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>
 
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redracer02

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I read Childhood's End many years ago, I think in the 11th grade, not for school though, just because I had just finished "A Fall of Moon Dust" and really liked Clarkes work.<br /><br />Childhood's End was very detailed and yet it left you wanting to know more. But he would never give that to you, it was up to your imagination to come up with it.<br /><br />Too bad.....wait I don't want to ruin it.
 
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kelle

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Childhoods end is one of my favourite books, the mood troughout the story is awesome. In the beginning it looks like a kind of normal book, but it gets stranger and stranger. And the ending is really something grand with... well, don't want to ruin your read <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />But anyway, I really recommend it. Sigh, now I want to read that book again...
 
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a_lost_packet_

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Childhood's End was a great book. All the good things previous posters have said are true. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> I enjoyed it thoroughly. I'd like to add, Childhood's End was considered being made into a movie. An old "Starlog" mag I use to have had a writeup on it. Storyboards had been done, costumes and set design were in the works etc. However, I guess it never made it into production. It would have been awesome though. It had alot of promise. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>
 
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lunatic133

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Ha, sounds like you're trying to get us to write an essay for the AP Lit exam <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Unfortunately I have read neither of these books otherwise I'd help
 
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s1artibartfast

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Childhoods End is a truly amazing story, regardless of its sci-fi nature. There are many out there that are turned off by sci-fi, but the way Clark brings this story to the reader is imaginative, provoking, and brilliant. Boy I love adjectives.<br /><br />Solaris--which I have not read--was a disappointing movie. I enjoyed the overall "what's going on" feel to a lot of movies, and accept the fact that I'm not meant to grasp everything a director or script has to offer...but alas! Solaris went too far for my taste.<br /><br />If I were you, I would highly recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which Dick wrote many decades ago. The movie Blade Runner was loosly based on this title--and let me tell you, both the movie and the book are one of my favorite in all genres.<br /><br />Enjoy. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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mariecurie

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I have read, and own, everything by Stanislaw Lem I could get my hands on. What exactly did you want to know? <br /><br /><font color="orange">We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?"—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005 <br /></font>
 
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