A review by valjeanval
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanisław Lem

3.0

I think this would have been an awesome short story, but as a novel, I got a little overwhelmed by the protagonist's situation. I'm also pretty sure that a lot of the Wonderland madness going on in the Building as a clear parallel for the author's time and place that does not immediately translate to mine. I felt as frustrated as the protagonist trying to make sense of senseless bureaucracy, and I think it was an amazing concept. I just don't generally like to read to feel that frustrated. I felt like I was stuck in a Kubrick/Lynch crossover film with no end in sight.

I'm also not sure why the author bothered with the introduction. The introduction about the post-paperpocalypse world really grabbed me, and I was disappointed to not see it picked up at the end.