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  <title><![CDATA[The Day of Creation: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation and sets out for the river&amp;#8217;s source.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1989</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mallory, a English doctor in Africa, tries to figure a way to restore a dried lake by drilling wells on its shore, in a country that is in the midst of a civil war. By accident he moves a bit earth with his foot and unleases a spring that in a few days becomes a river.  Of course, the river fills th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73523245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just started on my J.G. Ballard kick after reading Empire of the Sun, which I highly recommend. This one is good, but not as good as Empire. Semi-autobiographical novels seem to find their own impetus and become the writer's best novel. Such as Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five being his best book, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47366193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the greatest Werner Herzog movie that Werner Herzog never made. Not prime Ballard, but plenty good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Day of Creation by J. G. Ballard (1999)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excelent writing, mediocre plot]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A little bit Heart of Darkness, a little bit Robinson Crusoe, a little bit Huckleberry Finn—even some Lolita.  References to myth and the “dream-time” resonate with the work of Mircea Eliade.  In addition to the narrative of the African adventure, there is a recurrent critique of television.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18771639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A more hallucinatory Heart of Darkness. Ballard uses post colonial Africa as a place to stage the decay of our western structures.  The &quot;other&quot; is Ballards truth.  His future is one where western structure has decayed, and we are unveiled as the animals we truly are.  Delightfully twisted....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what Conrad's Heart Of Darkness should have been.  The hubris of the Western missionary doctor combined with the deceptive apathy of the natives combine to show why new opportunies to do better are generally squandered to do what's easy.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= J.G. Ballard" title=" J.G. Ballard"> J.G. Ballard</a> rewrites <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Heart of Darkness" title=" Heart of Darkness"> Heart of Darkness</a>. Not bad, not good, which I guess kind of boils down to not worth it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of JG's lesser novels. Readable but could have been a lot better. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[some annoying stock characters dragged it down]]></body>
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