Super-Cannes
 From Amazon.co.uk: JG Ballard covers familiar territory in Super-Cannes: new social structures under pressure, new psychopathologies to be explored. As he did in his previous novel Cocaine Nights, he has avoided the more abstract imagery and plot of [... more]
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Concrete Island
amazing allegory: This book, like a lot of J.G. Ballard's work, cannot be enjoyed by everyone. It lacks the shock value of "Crash" and the intrigue of "The Atrocity Exhibition". I found it, however, to be an enjoyable read in the [... more]
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Empire of the Sun
Author: J G Ballard Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780006547006 ISBN: 0006547001 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 1994-09-12 [... more]
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Cocaine Nights
From Amazon.com: When travel writer Charles Prentice arrives at Estrella de Mar, a resort town near Gibraltar populated primarily by British retirees, to find out why his brother Frank has been jailed, he's shocked to find that Frank has confessed to a [... more]
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Empire of the Sun
Interesting POV of WWII: On the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, all European and American persons in Japanese occupied China were herded into internment camps. This is the story of one boy's war, eleven-year-old Jim who is separated from his [... more]
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The Kindness of Women
Wonderful: Truly an excellent book. Important to read Empire of the Sun first since this is something of a sequel. The biography as fiction: Empire of the Sun was one of the best examples of putting your life up to a critical analysis and staring [... more]
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War Fever
The prodigal Sun: This remarkable collection demonstrates once again how Ballard is one of literature's best kept secrets. Fourteen intelligent, intense and vividly written short stories challenge our theories of the recent future. It is one of the [... more]
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Unlimited Dream Company
Astonishingly Beautiful: This intensely visual book has the depth and mystery of the 17th Century alchemical works...like them, it is about transformation, and the solidification of the heart's essence, in this case, the desire to fly. Endlessly [... more]
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Millennium People
From Amazon.co.uk: The peasants, goes a tedious old joke about Wat Tyler's mob, are revolting. In JG Ballard's unnerving, prophetic novel Millennium People, however, it's the middle classes that are staging the revolution: blowing up the NFT, burning [... more]
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Concrete Island: A Novel
amazing allegory: This book, like a lot of J.G. Ballard's work, cannot be enjoyed by everyone. It lacks the shock value of "Crash" and the intrigue of "The Atrocity Exhibition". I found it, however, to be an enjoyable read in the [... more]
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Myths of the Near Future
Life at a Tangent: I am not usually a devotee of the short story compilation, but found this collection by Ballard, surely the most cerebral of sci-fi authors, to be utterly compelling. Nine of the works (the tenth "Dead Time" seems oddly out [... more]
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The Best Short Stories of J.G Ballard: The Best Short ...
parts of this book are brilliant: I would rate a few of the stories contained in this book with five stars, but other stories bring the total rating down to 3 stars. These are the stories which I would rate with 5 stars: "The Concentration City" [... more]
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