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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 ...more
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 ...more

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