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Books like Roadside Picnic 1978
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Roadside Picnic
Books closest to Roadside Picnic
The siege of Krishnapur 1973Also grave, classical in form and contemplative
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1962Also grave, classical in form and earnest
The Machine Stops 1909Also grave, classical in form and bleak
The Buried Giant 2001Also grave, earnest and classical in form
A Perfect Spy 1986Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The Garden of Evening Mists 2011Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Things Fall Apart 1958Also grave, earnest and classical in form
A Gathering of Old Men 1983Also grave and earnest
Fire watch 1985Also grave and classical in form
A quiet flame 2015Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Arrow of God 1964Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 2010Also grave, classical in form and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Lone Star 1996Also grave and earnest
Blade Runner 1982Also grave, contemplative and bleak
Shanghai Triad 1995Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Albums
- Awaken the Guardian 1986Also grave and earnest
- The Saint of Lost Causes 2019Also grave, earnest and classical in form
- :ankoku butoh: 2009Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Series
The Little Drummer Girl 2018Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Under the Banner of Heaven 2022Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The Name of the Rose 2019Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Games
Stela 2019Also grave, earnest and bleak
Silent Hill 1999Also grave, bleak and earnest
Vampire: The Masquerade - Sins of the Sires 2022Also grave, classical in form and earnest
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