I love Lem's books, my father used to read them to me and my brother when we were young (I remember he read us "Tales of Pirx the pilot", now it is name of crater on Charon ! :D). This started my adventure with Sci-Fi books and reading in general.
"The Cyberiad" was to me what reading primers are to the most of humanity: I learnt to read on it, being barely 4.5 y.o. I am in mid forties now; discovered Kandel's translation recently and falled in love with it immediately.
