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  <title><![CDATA[Super-Cannes: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and her husband Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain Eden-Olympias smoothly-running surface.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[J.G. Ballard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 27 10:35:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 27 10:59:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A little slicker than High-Rise, the only other Ballard I've read, and has both strengths and weaknesses because of it.  The embrace of the violent and the primal feels a little bit more contextualized here, a little more understandable, but for that it also feels a little less visceral.  Part of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75901853">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 19 19:26:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Sinclair-- a pilot recovering from a leg injury-- and his young doctor wife take up residence at the French industrial park Eden-Olympia, a hub of some of the world's most powerful businesses. His wife is there to replace the previous doctor, a former lover who went on a killing spree in the in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55033790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45385743">
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 14:11:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 08 23:36:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy Ballard's work, and this doesn't disappoint. A newly married couple move to live in a business park in France, where recently an acquantance has gone on a killing spree.<br/><br/>The set up does allow Ballard to indulge in all his favourite distancing techniques, all meshed into the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45385743">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40868600">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bruce]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 25 00:47:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 25 00:59:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another beautifully written but intentionally sterile dissection of the mad, taboo extremes to which bored inhabitants of high-tech wonderlands can be driven.  The only appropriate description for this kind of thing is Ballardian, but going to the well too often plays up the hazard of becoming your ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40868600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22076615">
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    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 17 07:20:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. Actively sought out bus trips to find reasons to not to anything else but read this book. ]]></body>
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    <review id="62155229">
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 04 16:44:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Relentless page-turning examination of the latent (or not-so-latent) psychopathology of corporate capitalism. Upper-echelon workaholics in Super-Cannes business park go on periodic fascist wilding sprees, controlled violence for prescribed therapeutic release, since milder recreations are inef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62155229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42386386">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 14:52:47 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Ballard book and I came to it with the understanding that he is a science fiction writer.  <em>Super-Cannes</em> was also described as something akin to William Gibson.  I guess it might be science fiction if the science in question is psychology.  The book concerns the psychological deform...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42386386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29310864">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrea]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 05 09:05:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 30 06:43:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard Ballard had died recently and decided it was time to pick up this book which had been sitting on my shelf for a few years. I had previously read Concrete Island, and was concerned that Super-Cannes would be, like that one, an example a clever idea played out in a somewhat unsatisfying way.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29310864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19359421">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[brief plot summary<br/>On the surface, you'd think you were reading a murder mystery. From beginning to end, Paul Sinclair tries to uncover the answers to why an acquaintance, Dr. David Greenwood, one day went crazy and shot several co-workers &amp; then himself at a corporate business park called Eden...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19359421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65741077">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 01 01:13:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 01 01:16:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To my great shame and regret the first JG Ballard I've read since Crash which was over twenty years ago. Was it worth the wait? Probably. The scope, the range, the vision are all deeply engaging but I found the characterisation and the relationships disappointing: I didn't care enough for the player...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65741077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42220072">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jeeyun]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 09 05:44:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another masterful work by JG Ballard that captures the modern dystopia in all its shiny, sterile, frightening glory.  It's incredible fun imagining this Corbusien business-park of sleek power as the breeding ground for self-induced psychopathologies.  While it reads as a thriller noir chocked full o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42220072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67620879">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jaycruz]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 16 11:43:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since this is the only J.G. Ballard novel I have read up till now, I don't have a reference point to compare it to his other works, but perhaps that's a good thing because I think it's a superb story. It's a thriller wrapped around speculative fiction about corporate culture. And if your like me and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67620879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39853417">
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    <name><![CDATA[Carmine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really fascinating novel about a professional community of strivers, overachievers, etc, and the behavior (often violent)  that   a certain kind of workaholic life can induce. It's a lot more immediate than that description makes it sound. Highly recommended. ]]></body>
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    <review id="73337082">
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    <name><![CDATA[Frederic]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ballard wrote insightful of modern pathology finding its true expression in consumer culture, truly corrupt and decadent folk make up the actors in this novel.   ]]></body>
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    <review id="43791883">
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    <body><![CDATA[It was OK, but fairly predictable once the ‘big reveal’ was played out. It was so not Science-Fiction – maybe that was the problem for me.]]></body>
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    <review id="41384021">
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    <body><![CDATA[It is perhaps unfortunate for me that this is the first JD Ballad book I picked up.  I know the man has a reputation for shock tactics and vulgarity and as an open-minded person, I can forgive great literature a great deal of unpleasentness and poor taste.  In fact, many of my favourate authors and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41384021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44254736">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 24 23:34:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[all becomes clear. it is fight club, except not as good.]]></body>
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    <review id="79848">
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