i'll admit i started reading this after a week long goon session with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Sep 20, 2024
for some reason, it always surprises me each time I read a book that was the inspiration for this or that movie, how drastically higher the quality of it is.
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Book is better than both the films, especially Tarkovsky’s god-fearing version. Edit: I was confusing it with Solaris, but the comment stands.
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man, i tried to watch the Tarkovsky movie, and while i like to think my attention span isn't too fried, it was so goddamn slow..
I'd add that there's a certain vibe to how Europeans, especially eastern and southern Europeans used to depict North America and North Americans in media. That vibe is so unique and cozy, and, in my opinion, adds so much to this book. For most of these authors, the sole basis for understanding American culture was exported American media (mainly Holywood movies, a big part of them westerns). What they then did was develop their own tropes and further caricaturized this caricature they started from. It's really hard to explain, but anyone who read European comic books or watched European cartoons set in north america will understand this vibe.