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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Kingdom Come
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Ads Be Run?: At 75 years of age you might think the irascible JG Ballard might be bored with finger-pointing and setting up future ?I told you so? scenarios from the sedate safety of his Shepperton semi-detached. But no. With the [... 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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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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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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Miracles of Life
Author: J G Ballard Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780007270729 ISBN: 0007270720 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2008-03-11 [... more]
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Research 8/9: J. G. Ballard
The Ultimate Introduction: This book is an amazing introduction to the works of a man with great thoughts. The introductory interview contains almost too much information and opinions; it is hard to wrap your mind around. But for those of you up to the [... more]
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J.G. Ballard Conversations
Author: J. G. Ballard Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 306 EAN: 9781889307138 ISBN: 1889307130 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2005-04-07 [... more]
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