Super-Cannes
by J.G. Ballard
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Read in September, 2004
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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 & then himself at a corporate business park called Eden-Olympia situated on the Cote d'Azur in France. But in reality, what is under that mystery is more disturbing. Sadly, I cannot reveal more because it would totally wreck the suspense & give away s...more
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 & then himself at a corporate business park called Eden-Olympia situated on the Cote d'Azur in France. But in reality, what is under that mystery is more disturbing. Sadly, I cannot reveal more because it would totally wreck the suspense & give away s...more
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Read in February, 2007
When you work 14+ hours a day at a white-collar job, vacations on the beach, homosexual love affairs with your neighbor, and even sadomasochism excrement sex play are not enough to unwind after a hard day at the office. Instead, this book prescribes pedophilia, beating up Arabs, and heroin use. Will this pilot from England join in their merry ways, shoot up the establishment with a high-powered rifle, or report the operations of this virtual crime syndicate to the French authorities?
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This book is cold and calculated and feels like the white light in a waiting room.
Yet with a delicate knife the author manages to cut a clean incision across the purified, pampered and artificially perfumed skin to expose a raw and savage world of the super elite.
It's fascinating to follow the protagonist as he patiently takes steps deeper and deeper into the sterile and violent world of the ultimate corporate gated community, Super-Cannes.
Yet with a delicate knife the author manages to cut a clean incision across the purified, pampered and artificially perfumed skin to expose a raw and savage world of the super elite.
It's fascinating to follow the protagonist as he patiently takes steps deeper and deeper into the sterile and violent world of the ultimate corporate gated community, Super-Cannes.
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Read in July, 2007
Intriguing concept, but I found it a little draggy and I wasn't a big fan of the writing style. Ballard's more liberal with his use of ellipses in this novel than I am in my emails. The random flashbacks at the start that I presume were meant to lend insight to the protagonist's character also seemed too contrived and out of place.
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Read in November, 2007
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modern society
A total page-turner! All the aestheticized alientation and ecstatic distopianism of Ballard's other works with a driving, murder mystery plot set against the glamorous yet impossibly hollow backdrop of futuristic business parks in the French Riviera.
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Read in July, 2007
Ballard continues to explore his social theory that violence is essential for achieving sanity and sanctity in a postmodern, post-religion, consumerism dominated society. I disagree with his philosophy, but his writing is crisp and clear.
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Read in May, 2008
Excellent. Actively sought out bus trips to find reasons to not to anything else but read this book.
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Read in April, 2008
A strange hallucination of a book; intriguing and suspenseful, but a little *too* deliberately perverse, and a slightly disappointing ending.
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Oh dear, why have Ballard's latest books been so predictable, each one gets more disappointing, how about a return to inner space...
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Read in February, 2001
quite the novel - J.G. Ballard has perfected the dread among the upper middle class
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