choochooish 's review for:

Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky

4.0

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Acts as an instinctual catalyst. Two tonnes of tomorrow in bags or wraps or sculpture. Easy to douse with or by simple liquid because of the flavoring. Candied sardines being the closest and respectably strange finger food equivalent. It's light folly to relate to, it's the average man's warning signs meant to be known by everyone to weave and fit into a different pattern upon retelling. Folktales, mythology on the spot, sometimes we put away what we know into more acceptable terms. Recounts as casual elder tales of frontiersman woe, or the story that's supposed to match the man. 

Easy to read and step into but breaks up that potent consciousness per each chapter. A new account ends and another begins. Different eyes from the same mouth, all in favor of their own opinion and view. Those who gain and those who don’t but gain anyways. Soupless handwashing, little drip because it paints your palms. An obedient wilderness to survive that makes you no different than the young man who hopes to have the same freedom as you.