
The Snail on the Slope
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Chris Andrew Ciulla
The Snail on the Slope takes place in two distinct worlds. One is the Administration, an institution run by a surreal, Kafkaesque bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the forest below. The other is the Forest, a place of fear, weird creatures, primitive people, and violence.
Peretz, who works at the Administration, wants to visit the Forest. Candide crashed in the Forest years ago and wants to return to the Administration.
Their journeys are surprising and strange, and listeners are left to puzzle out the mysteries of these foreign environments. The Strugatskys themselves called The Snail on the Slope "the most perfect and the most valuable of our works".
©2018 Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Okay Story with a Fantastic Epilogue
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Confusing... fun?
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Horrible narration performance this guy ruined a good book
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it at least made more sense after hearing the author's note at the end. but it felt largely like a less interesting rehash of The Doomed City
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