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By: maurizio

This book is ridiculous.

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By: maurizio

Read this review for more explanations but you can realize it from the first 10 chapters.

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By: Simon Sellars

we’re sorry you think that way. perhaps you could give some of ballard’s other books a chance?

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By: maurizio

Of course I will, Simon. My first message is quite strong probably because of the Ballard fame. Obviously, that is and wants to be no more than my opinion on this specific book. I also added the link...

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By: Mark Roth

This book has obviously gone right over maurizio’s head. Ballard again presents us with a “landscape of the mind” and to expect this novel to play out like a standard sci-fi adventure is ridiculous....

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By: Mark Roth

They don’t call Ballard a surrealist for naught. Like a surrealist painting, his landscapes are populated by symbolic and mythic elements, all juxtaposed in a manner that address meaning of human...

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By: Simon Sellars

Well said, Mark.

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By: Paul Hazel

Poor Maurizio… The review he’s linked to has long gone, so it’s impossible to know what his beef is… Still, to be fair, ‘Hello America’ is not one of Ballard’s best novels. It starts out promisingly...

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By: Mark Roth

I read Maurizio’s review before it was gone, and it was basically complaining that Hello America was disappointing in that it did not play out like some kind of conventional action-adventure narrative....

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By: David Mayne

Bit late to the debate but I love this book and its easily one of my all time favourites. Yes, it may be flawed but the imagery and subtext that it conjures is vivid and thought provoking as is all of...

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By: Michael Mahern

“Hello America” is the first Ballard I’ve read, and disappointed doesn’t even begin to describe my reaction. Frankly, I found it lazy and unstructured with characters who are impossible to...

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