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A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.
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- De Kevin en 05-16-21
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Concrete Island
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash. An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself, dazed and disorientated, on a traffic island below three converging motorways. But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible - and he finds himself marooned on the concrete island.
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Interesting. complelingly odd.
- De josh en 02-08-17
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Atrocity Exhibition
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. This edition features explanatory notes from the author. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown.
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Ballard's extreme experiment - bizarre & brilliant
- De Miriam en 08-30-14
De: J. G. Ballard
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High-Rise
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Tom Hiddleston
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds, and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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TOM HIDDLESTON NEEDS TO READ EVERYTHING
- De Jeanette en 04-05-15
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Drowned World
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard’s mesmerizing and ferociously imaginative novel not only gained him widespread critical acclaim but also established his reputation as one of the finest writers of a generation. The Drowned World imagines a terrifying world in which global warming has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. Set during the year 2145, this novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists as they confront a cityscape in which nature is on the rampage and giant lizards, dragonflies, and insects fiercely compete for domination.
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- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-16
De: J. G. Ballard
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High-Rise
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Eric Yves Garcia
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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Ballard deserves a more competent narrator
- De Christopher en 04-21-14
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Complete Short Stories
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrrom, William Gaminara, Sean Barrett, y otros
- Duración: 63 h y 21 m
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A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.
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- De Kevin en 05-16-21
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Concrete Island
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash. An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself, dazed and disorientated, on a traffic island below three converging motorways. But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible - and he finds himself marooned on the concrete island.
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Interesting. complelingly odd.
- De josh en 02-08-17
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Kindness of Women
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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A must-listen for any J. G. Ballard fan, this “capstone to a magnificent career” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the essential sequel to Empire of the Sun. Published in 1991, this semiautobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece from “one of the most important and intelligent voices in contemporary fiction” (Susan Sontag). “Rueful the way Primo Levi’s work was” (New York Times Book Review), the novel follows 15-year-old Jim Graham as he leaves the ruins of postwar Shanghai, only to find that he cannot escape his own obsession with death.
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- De Cc en 09-21-23
De: J. G. Ballard
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High-Rise
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Tom Hiddleston
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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From the author of the Sunday Times best seller Cocaine Nights comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant 40-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors, and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for riots and technological mayhem.
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Dark and thought-provoking
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-19
De: J. G. Ballard
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Kingdom Come
- A Novel
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Andy Caploe
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport.
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- De Christopher en 04-22-14
De: J. G. Ballard
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London Fields
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- De Sand en 08-21-14
De: Martin Amis
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Hello America
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: David Ledoux
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Following the energy crisis of the late 20th century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable - the Bering Strait has been dammed and much of the country has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture. The expedition sets off from Manhattan on a cross-country journey, through Holiday Inns and abandoned theme parks, to uncover a shocking new power in the heart of Las Vegas.
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If you like Ballard, don't buy this audibook!
- De the kid en 10-12-13
De: J. G. Ballard
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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Extraordinary
- De Vieux Carré Blonde en 12-12-12
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Crystal World
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Fearing this transformation as a herald of the apocalypse, most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest.
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Perfect narration for Ballard's descriptive prose
- De Miriam en 08-27-14
De: J. G. Ballard
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Rushing to Paradise
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden. But paradise is not quite what it seems in this “searing” (Kirkus Reviews) send-up of environmentalism, feminism, and extremism of all sorts.
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For Ballard completists
- De Sandahl en 10-31-13
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- De: John le Carré
- Narrado por: full cast, Simon Russell Beale
- Duración: 18 h y 59 m
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The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, thrilling spy novels.
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good reading but can't navigate
- De RB Vancouver en 01-07-17
De: John le Carré
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Lolita
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.
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An Absolutely Gorgeous Audible Experience
- De Jim en 10-26-05
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Naked Lunch
- The Restored Text
- De: William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone.
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Delightful rendition
- De csk en 10-11-12
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The Coming of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 21 h y 11 m
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There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time.
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Compelling and depressing
- De Tad Davis en 06-30-10
De: Richard J. Evans
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Empire of the Sun
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- mrs.truthquest
- 05-12-18
A tough act to follow
I kept reading and rereading this story. This is now one of the books I can count on one hand. It ranks among the best, after a lifetime of listening to audio books.
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- Jeffrey Dreyer
- 05-11-19
Mixed feelings
There is no doubt that Jeremy Irons is a great actor. However, his delivery of this material is uniformly quiet, flat, almost inflectionless. This bothered me for much of the book until I decided this must be a choice to reflect Jim’s unflappable acceptance of all that was happening to him. Unfortunately, the sound quality of this recording is poor as well. All of this leaves me a bit undecided about this recording.
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- Phil F.
- 12-29-20
I enjoyed it but it is abridged
I enjoyed it but it is abridged. It feels like things have been left out. Jeremy Irons reading is masterful.
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- Nate
- 03-22-16
Wish it was unabridged
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I wouldn't recommend any abridged book to a friend, that's just not nice.
What did you like best about this story?
The story.
Which scene was your favorite?
There were a lot of them I liked, they were just too short.
Do you think Empire of the Sun needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No, but the unabridged version would be nice.
Any additional comments?
I like the story a lot, just not the abridged version. You might as well just watch the movie. It has young batman in it.
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- 09-06-19
The one audible book to have
If you're gonna buy one audible book to immerse yourself in, this is it. Jeremy Irons reads this book like no other bringing the characters and story telling to life as vividly as it was lived. I had to listen to the last part of the the book over and over again. I lack the words to praise this audio book appropriately so I will use this cliches. It is hauntingly beautiful.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-17-23
A WW2 era classic
Always a fan of the movie and had never read the book. It is a short and well written/spoken listen.
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- Jessica Smith
- 02-29-24
I wish I had bought the unabridged version
This is the abridged version of Empire of the Sun, and I can tell that the book is probably really good. The performer is wonderful. But, I wish I had bought the entire thing and not the abridged version because I feel like I missed stuff.
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- Aldret
- 05-11-21
Brutally Abridged
A stunning and important book, this audio version is brutally hacked up and abridged. Jeremy Irons does an excellent job of narration, but that doesn't make up for the loss of Ballard's writing or large gaps in the story.
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- Glenn Gomes
- 12-05-15
great story and narration
remember this is the abridged edition, some parts of story are missing. great narration with emotion and " English " intelligence
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- John S
- 06-12-14
Abridged version kind of ruins it.
I love this book and found the abridged version sort of disappointing. I wish there was an unabridged one. The narration by Jeremy Irons is great though. Consequently I would recommended reading the book rather that listening to abridged version. I added it to my library because it was inexpensive and I had a $10 credit. Wish I had not.
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