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Tony
Dec 04, 2013 added it
Ballard is one of those writers I've always meant to check out, but somehow hadn't gotten around to until picking this up. For about 100 pages, I thought I might have found a new favorite author, and then for the next 200 pages, my enthusiasm started to very slowly deflate, until by the last 100 pages I was largely reading just to see what happens.

The story revolves around Paul, the middle-aged husband of a young doctor who has accepted a job at a posh, futuristic, sun-drenched, gated industrial
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