Picked up ages ago at The Book Thing in Baltimore, Maryland. Finally decided to register it today, though heaven knows when I'll actually get around to reading it! :)

Registered in Centreville, Virginia, USA.

I am taking this book with me on my upcoming vacation in Europe. If I finish reading it while I'm there I'll release it wherever I happen to be and update this journal entry accordingly.

Edit 6 May 2013: I finished reading this just before the 2013 BookCrossing Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden, and released it to the book buffet there, where it was caught and journaled before I had a chance to make release notes. I finally just got around to reviewing it today:

Ijon Tichy is attempting to attend a conference of futurists when his hotel is attacked by terrorists with mind-altering gas. Through a series of absurd events, Tichy finds himself resurrected several decades in the future, when everyone relies on chemical supplements to provide them with all knowledge and emotion, perception-altering drugs that hide a distressing reality. This all sounds terribly dystopian and horrifying, and in some ways it is, but it is also pretty hilarious satire. It's one of those sorts of books where you just have to go with it, and pay special attention to the made-up words and random asides, many of which are the funniest parts of the book. I hadn't expected to so enjoy this book - I'd sort of expected it to be a bit of a slog, a book about an idea only tenuously strung together with plot - but this was quite a romp. The humor is dark, to be sure, but still quite entertaining.

Picked up at the convention in Göteborg.

Got the book at the meeting in Ulm. My second Lem book. But im not sure if i should read an english translation...

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