Roadside Picnic
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671458423 (0671458426)
Publish date: September 1st 1982
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 153
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Speculative Fiction,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Just started re-reading this yesterday and am already gripped. It's truly unsettling in the most understated of ways. It reminds me a little of John Wyndham's work; it has a similar quality of matter-of-factness about it that somehow makes it all the more chilling.Pure literary gold...strangely put ...
I really loved this book, and it's hard for me to put into words why. A lot of it has to do with the atmosphere and the prose. But I also loved how the setting is almost a character itself and loved seeing how all the other characters related to it.It's interesting to see a story that focuses on how...
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