Había leído buenas críticas de este autor pero me parece que he ido a escoger la peor de sus novelas. No es que el libro sea malo es que es una mezcla surrealista que no llega a tener mucho sentido. Lo mejor es la ambientación, un planeta tierra totalmente cambiado debido a una alteración solar. ...
The book is a fantastic examination of our consumerist culture and the philosophy of modern capitalism. It's thought-provoking, interesting, and worth a read.On the other hand, the pace is slow at points, the tension dips, and the narrator seems more of an object than a narrator. Our dear Mr. P...
I was deeply disappointed by this book. Based on the idea alone, I could have easily given it a four-star review. However, the way the idea was executed was poorly done, and, in my opinion, extremely ignorant and regressive in some cases. I clearly have some strong opinions about this novel, so I...
Nutshell: when the world turns to glass, real men hoard women.Situated between Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Wayne Madsen’s Decade of Death Secret Wars and Genocide in Africa 19932003, we have here the colonialist traveling to the heart of sub-Saharan Africa and finding horror therein.Opens at a...
I remember one Saturday afternoon during the winter of 1987/1988 when my friend Chuck and I decided that instead of hitting the mall we would take in a movie. Our choices weren’t great… Rent-a-Cop, Return of the Living Dead Part II , Braddock, Missing in Action Part III. Yeah, so, we opted for ...
forse qualcosa anticipo, da leggere con circospezione!Robert Maitland �� un architetto londinese che, lanciato al volante della sua jaguar mentre torna a casa, �� vittima di un incidente stradale, a seguito del quale si trova ad essere prigioniero di un'isola spartitraffico, sottostante i piloni ...
It's Ballard who gives the best outline of this particular book: 'The Unlimited Dream Company is set in Shepperton where I live, and it's about a young pilot who steals a light aircraft and crashes into the Thames [river], and who, in a sense, dies. [He has] drowned in his aircraft, but frees him...
*****WARNING THIS IS A GRAPHIC ADULT REVIEW NO KIDDIES PLEASE.*****”I knew that Vaughan could never really die in a car-crash, but would in some way be re-born through those twisted radiator grilles and cascading windshield glass. I thought of the scarred white skin over his abdomen, the heavy p...
A ficção de Ballard não é estranha às psicopatias induzidas pela arquitectura modernista. Induzida talvez não seja o termo correcto. Talvez, despertas, na suprema ironia do rebentar de surtos de violência irracional por entre a geometria simbólica do triunfo da racionalidade fria trazido pelo mod...
Masterful storytelling, challenging our perceptions of convention.After reading a literary disaster (The WallCreeper by Nell Zink) I was over-the-top relieved to be introduced to a true storyteller in reading The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard. As I understand, this is the sequel to Empire of ...
The wind came from nowhere … a super-hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers – where they turned against each other ...
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The Day of Creation is the first non-Science-fiction book of J.G. Ballard that I have read. I have read many Ballard books in the 70's and 80's when I started reading lots of science fiction. I especially liked his short stories which sometimes had surrealist images and stories a bit like Jorge L...
Ballard transplants Dostoyevsky's Possessed, Conrad's Secret Agent, and DeLillo's Mao II into the gated-residential purgatories of riverside London in 2003's Millennium People, one of his most polished and disquieting satires.Upfront Disclaimer: If you're put off by mordantly hyperbolic similes o...
Telling Stories: The Case of J.G. Ballard and Robert SheckleyCan you write short stories without recognizable characters, coherent plot, or realistic dialogue? Of course you can. That's why God invested modernism. The list of writers who have produced such works is long and distinguished: Jorge B...
I'm reading this as an exercise in curiosity, undaunted by two volumes that would cover about eight books of normal length. It's been many years since I heard of Ballard, and I originally thought he was a normal fiction author. I was therefore surprised and flabbergasted to learn that Empire of t...
'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G. Ballard was born, and where he spent most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.
All day Anthony Royal and his wife had been packing. After lunch in the deserted restaurant on the 35th floor they returned to their apartment, where Royal spent what he knew would be his last hours in the high-rise closing down his design studio. In no hurry to leave, now that the moment had com...
