Roadside Picnic

Apparently, the two most popular Russian SF novels are this one and another that I read, [b:Monday Starts on Saturday 18215601 Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady Strugatsky https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1517066137s/18215601.jpg 1039633].I didn't care for either very much. Mostly for the same reason. I always felt as if I had missed a chapter, everything felt like it almost made sense.There were a couple of parts I liked, an interesting discussion of why the aliens might have visited and one of those reasons explains the title. I also liked the addendum on the difficulties of getting something published in Soviet Russia.I think I would have appreciated these books more if I had grown up in Soviet Russia in the 70's.