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From J.G. Ballard, author of Crash and Cocaine Nights comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.
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. Travelling through this gilded land, a doctor tries to resist its strange allure in pursuit of his ex-mistress, while a tribe of lepers search for Paradise…
In this tour de force of the imagination, Ballard transports the listener into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.
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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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EGO AGAINST ID
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-16
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 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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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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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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who is making these narrator calls?
- De Christopher en 04-22-14
De: J. G. Ballard
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Running Wild
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 2 h y 32 m
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Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia - 32 adults murdered, and their children missing - in Running Wild, one of Ballard’s most dazzlingly subversive works of fiction.
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Careful With That Axe, Eugene
- De Darwin8u en 02-18-20
De: J. G. Ballard
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Crystal World
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- Darwin8u
- 03-31-19
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Reminds me of several other of Ballard's environmental disaster/transformation novels with a bit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness overlayed for good measure.
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- Miriam
- 08-27-14
Perfect narration for Ballard's descriptive prose
I feel I must announce my bias upfront: I am a fan of both Ballard as a writer, and Barrett as a narrator. Even with that bias, I truly felt that this particular audiobook was a 'perfect marriage' - a five-star narration that enhances a vivid, evocative text. I would definitely recommend this audiobook as an introduction to early Ballard.
A lot of readers - even Ballard fans - don't like this book: some common criticisms are that the characters are unbearable and their motivations ambiguous, the descriptions of landscapes interminable, the symbolism heavy-handed and the ending, in particular, irreconcilable. I would never dare suggest Ballard as 'light-reading', but I nevertheless think that 'The Crystal World' is one of his books that can be read 'simply', as a pure narrative (without interposed analysis). If you are going to approach it in that way, perhaps it is helpful to have in mind Colin Greenland's thesis that it's all about acceptance and acclimatization: seen in this light, the characters' choices may be more relatable.
I do find it interesting that one of the common complaints about 'The Crystal World' is the focus on describing the environment in which the characters find themselves. In this regard, 'The Crystal World' reminds me somewhat of Lem's 'Solaris' - the awesome beauty is almost a distraction from the destructive (and/or transformational) nature of the environment. Jason Heller's take on Ballard as "[u]nimaginable horror meted out in the most disciplined packages" is the one that resonates the most with me. I don't think that there is an extraneous word in 'The Crystal World', and Barrett's subtle narration is the perfect complement.
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- Robert Osborne
- 06-01-15
Breathe taking
I am certain that I will be reading and rereading this novel for the rest of my days by the light of the prismatic sun evermore in receipt of its crystallized wisdom.
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- C. Rosser
- 01-07-22
reread after 50 years
The book still retains the lyrical quality of surrender to inevitable doom that I vaguely remembered. I had forgotten most of the personal entanglements of the characters however. Not for every reader.
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- Jason Hood
- 08-06-18
A recomendation from my dad
So my dad bought me a series of books in the sci-fi genre, but this series is the Nebula award winners and other enjoyable award winning liturature from th genre. This book was so much fun that I just heard the "cereal narrator" talking you through the story. The characters are fun and engaging, you can almost feel your finger prike on a crystal leaf. Definitely worth a listen. Just be patient and youll get there, because this book sounds like its out of the 1920s. Nostalgia all the way.
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- Dr. Joe de Beauchamp
- 02-18-22
Crystal World
I found this realistic science fiction novel extremely interesting on the second read. JJ Ballard conveys realistic science fiction. I found the narration much better than reading the novel itself, it flowed more than just reading a book.
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- James
- 01-23-24
The jeweled forest
Very well done fantasy/science fiction. Very good use of words and told well by the reader.
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- Aaron
- 04-14-15
Couldn't finish
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I've been reading for years about how great J.G. Ballard is, but I just don't get it. Seems like basically pulp, and pulp in which not much happens. Read The Drowned World, but that wasn't much better.
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