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# ROADSIDE PICNIC

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ROADSIDE PICNIC : Strugatsky, Arkady, Strugatsky, Boris, Bormashenko, Olena, Le Guin, Ursula K.: desertcart.in: Books

Review: Ideal
Review: Here we have a late edition of the work, and one of the Strugatsky's according to the cover is still alive in st petersburg that ancient city of Old Russia and center of an old order and culture..whenever we read a text especially by a writer who not only look inside people but at the outside world and this is quite difficult to accomplish in a literary text of 200 pages or less. The afterward is humble as he details as a literary person the bureaucratic travails of getting his works published, and I do recall hearing of him and reading newspaper articles in my youth, and he was the most famous of Russian writers next to Solzhenitsyn and I must remind western critics his books and ideas are actually aimed at all political systems. Much like shakespeare's tempest pr Huxley's Island the zone is not located anywhere anyplace, but are humans in general and what they are all about and why they are suffering the way they are. He has been called a communist, but this word is often misunderstood perhaps he uses marxism as a way to diagnose society, how people are alinated and what the problems are in current society rather than endorse any party. Although I dont pretend to speak for him..other titles for the novel are interesting Hard to be God, and the worse comment a writer likes is he thinks he's God and is capable of writing and thinking up a great society that no one else can, and I doubt he liked this title. Other comments on the afterward, regarding what the far left's ideal of agreat society, freedom, but can there be such freedom, or any kind of far left rule when on p 204 he states concerning the violence "comments concerning physical vilence" and the novel is about a stalker(sic) entering a zone and getting artifacts, and although alienation is apparent throughout this novel, and in his great forbear's masterpiece, Zamyatin's WE, the question is how do we really civilize people. In one passage midway through the book the character muses about aliens and invasions into children, and woman being prettied up like dolls, will that bring satisfaction to him, and a very humane remark about providing for children and his wife, and these are all things which are capitalist society does not bring I agree, but why blame the economy and why not put the blame elsewhere..he in no way takes these views..as a work of art it is impeccable, one of the hallmarks of science fiction, serious science fiction. On p 180 "Vultures..there are too many of them..that's why there are no clean places..the whole world is filthy..later on p 185 "begging for peace..water..memories..knocking one another.,jostling, mingling, intertwining..pity or hatred."..The whole world is a zone, and we I think are the first words of the declaration of independence, our experiences never quite jive, what the world should be, but the heart of this novel lies in stalker and violence, it would be interesting to see this Russian film, a novel evocative of all nations where this novel is actually located..

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #480,006 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #507 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) #730 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books) #38,499 in Reference (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,285) |
| Dimensions  | 13.97 x 1.32 x 21.59 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 1613743416 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1613743416 |
| Item Weight  | 1 kg 50 g |
| Language  | English |
| Paperback  | 209 pages |
| Publisher  | Chicago Review Pr (1 May 2012) |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by F***Y on 19 February 2020*

Ideal

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***I on 25 November 2012*

Here we have a late edition of the work, and one of the Strugatsky's according to the cover is still alive in st petersburg that ancient city of Old Russia and center of an old order and culture..whenever we read a text especially by a writer who not only look inside people but at the outside world and this is quite difficult to accomplish in a literary text of 200 pages or less. The afterward is humble as he details as a literary person the bureaucratic travails of getting his works published, and I do recall hearing of him and reading newspaper articles in my youth, and he was the most famous of Russian writers next to Solzhenitsyn and I must remind western critics his books and ideas are actually aimed at all political systems. Much like shakespeare's tempest pr Huxley's Island the zone is not located anywhere anyplace, but are humans in general and what they are all about and why they are suffering the way they are. He has been called a communist, but this word is often misunderstood perhaps he uses marxism as a way to diagnose society, how people are alinated and what the problems are in current society rather than endorse any party. Although I dont pretend to speak for him..other titles for the novel are interesting Hard to be God, and the worse comment a writer likes is he thinks he's God and is capable of writing and thinking up a great society that no one else can, and I doubt he liked this title. Other comments on the afterward, regarding what the far left's ideal of agreat society, freedom, but can there be such freedom, or any kind of far left rule when on p 204 he states concerning the violence "comments concerning physical vilence" and the novel is about a stalker(sic) entering a zone and getting artifacts, and although alienation is apparent throughout this novel, and in his great forbear's masterpiece, Zamyatin's WE, the question is how do we really civilize people. In one passage midway through the book the character muses about aliens and invasions into children, and woman being prettied up like dolls, will that bring satisfaction to him, and a very humane remark about providing for children and his wife, and these are all things which are capitalist society does not bring I agree, but why blame the economy and why not put the blame elsewhere..he in no way takes these views..as a work of art it is impeccable, one of the hallmarks of science fiction, serious science fiction. On p 180 "Vultures..there are too many of them..that's why there are no clean places..the whole world is filthy..later on p 185 "begging for peace..water..memories..knocking one another.,jostling, mingling, intertwining..pity or hatred."..The whole world is a zone, and we I think are the first words of the declaration of independence, our experiences never quite jive, what the world should be, but the heart of this novel lies in stalker and violence, it would be interesting to see this Russian film, a novel evocative of all nations where this novel is actually located..

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by P***N on 31 October 2015*

I had only ever seen the movie version of this story so it was significant surprise to find that the original setting for the story isn’t somewhere in the former Soviet Union, but in fact appears to be Canada. An even bigger surprise, and a most welcome one to me as Kipling fan, was to discover in Arkady Strugatsky’s afterword in this book, that the authors’ derived the word Stalker from the character 'Stalky' in Kipling’s Stalky and Co stories. Both the film and book have different but equally melancholic endings. However the novel might be said to have the ultimate happy ending, depending on what you believe the protagonist is actually thinking in the last paragraph…

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