Roadside Picnic
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Robert Forster
About this listen
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty", something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.
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- Penny Nom
- 14-08-21
superb
one of the best sci-fi books I've ever experienced, masterfully performed by Robert Forster.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-23
I'm biased and I don't care
Best book ever written and the narrator makes a great Red schuhart. its a shame i haven't managed to find something similar to fill the hole it left after it was finished
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- Anonymous User
- 11-02-24
Sublime
An excellent novel read by the late, great, Robert Forster. Truly engaging and well worth checking out.
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- __Steve__
- 29-03-24
Excellent
Very engrossing from start to finish but I did think it ended quite quickly but still a great story
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- geoff clout
- 08-01-15
I can honestly say that I was taken by every word!
Boldly and succinctly transported into another world without unnecessary filling in of back story, and beautifuly read too.
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- xrd
- 18-02-21
Long audiobook
It's difficult to follow the story when it's so long. I would appreciate a shorter dramatization.
The story itself deserves all stars. It is not a bad story at all, however for what I use it for it's too long and difficult to follow.
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- Tim Gunstone
- 21-12-22
superb
a must read. brilliantly read with such an engaging story, I could not stop listening
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- Notally_Not_A_Robot
- 07-10-21
Read the physical book first and bought this again
it's so good ir's worth buying twice. The performance is incredible and amazing. It breathes such life to the characters.
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- allan 1
- 28-12-20
Best book in years
Great story and the voice telling the story fitted perfectly had me hooked from the very start
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- JBVC
- 20-03-22
Great!
First off, Robert Forster is a legend and it was a joy to listen to him in what was a somewhat unlikely choice for narrator. For fans of the movie, it might be a surprise that the movie only adapts one of the books lengthy chapters. That leaves a lot of new material that fleshes things out further. Very good listen.
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