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  <title><![CDATA[Unlimited Dream Company (Paladin Books)]]></title>
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  <default_description>From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 'Cocaine Nights' comes an acclaimed backlist title -- in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld -- now reissued in new cover style.  When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is strangely transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man's urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1979</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[J.G. Ballard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun May 03 06:30:26 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blake, a crazy bloke, obsessed with flying, steals a Cessna light aircraft from a maintenance hangar in London Airport.  Because the plane is faulty and Blake doesn't know how to fly properly, would-be avaitor and aircraft crash into the Thames at Shepperton shortly afterwards.<br/><br/>After ten ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48288752">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 04:06:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[wonderfully weird and full of life/energy even though the protagonist might be dead, or mad, or both. Howver after the initial jolt it does slow down considerably and by p150 its effects have worn off. Worth 4 stars though for the opening ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Unlimited Dream Co. by J. G. Ballard ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 3 in my Ballard exercise. A loser becomes a dark messiah - a post surrealist exercise by Ballard that I'm sure he had fun writing, but I didn't need to finish. I was disciplined enough in this Ballard Exercise to ALMOST finish it and then I skipped ahead to see if I would miss anything . . . so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28875830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Unlimited Dream Company mainly for its dreamlike atmosphere and surreal imagery. The story's about a guy who &quot;dies&quot; crashing a stolen plane into the river then emerges from the wreckage to find himself transformed into some kind of highly lascivious pagan deity. I've enjoyed other ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20201906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blech! I like some of Ballard's short fiction okay, but this is one of the most godawful things my mind had ever ingested. The worst kind of hippie crap. It's like he's trying to be <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Robert Heinlein" title=" Robert Heinlein"> Robert Heinlein</a> or something. I mean, even Heinlein's not trying to be Heinlein - he was just born that way or someth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8172930">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most amazing books I have ever read. It is complex and surrealistic, dystopic, and hallucinatory. More later]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The themes of Resurrection, Ascension and Rapture Considered as a Psychedelic Airshow Disaster.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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