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  <title><![CDATA[Hello America]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[J.G. Ballard]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed May 20 20:15:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was done with this all those years ago, I beamed.  He's a genius I thought.  I would love to have his talents, his insights, his poetry.<br/>But I was young and I knew that I was somewhat disappointed by it deep down.  The big tipoff was Charles Manson as a long-lived fellow who seemed more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56814033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book, full of extremely interesting and witty ideas...<br/><br/>Set not so far into the future (now) and massive climate change has seen America abandoned as New York, Washington and the East Coast are transformed into vast deserts, and Las Vegas is a huge neon-lit jungle. Tribes of nomads...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32507862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite an entertaining read. I really appreciate the concepts and ideas he presents.  This is an amazing 'what if' book.  Explorative adventures in America one hundred years after massive amounts of American leave the continent due to a collapsing economy and exhausted natural resources.  Good fun.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ballard’s novel could be read as a retelling of The Wizard of Oz.  The style seems rather casual and offhand in comparison with some of the short stories.  Overall, the book was not really satisfying.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Postmodern / Postapocalypse<br/>A crazy mishmash of pop culture and the American frontier mentality.]]></body>
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