I was trying to explain what this was about to mom on WA, alienation, communication through violence, descent to barbarism. She said "Ah, sounds like Dogville". I left about a third in on that movie, and I don't think I'll be watching this one. It sounds like I did not like this, and, well, uncomfor...
I never actually got around to reviewing this book when I read it last year, but I gave it an actual rating of 3.5 stars...rounding up to 4. I've just finished listening to the audiobook version, which is narrated by Tom Hiddleston, and I am still unsure as how to review this book. It's just reall...
hmmm how do I word this..Okay, well first off the premise is incredibly unique and I loved that.I liked that we had perspectives of the higher, middle and lower floor 'representatives' - I guess would be an appropriate title.But my god the writing style was BLUNT AS FUCK.Like 'lol ok this woman is c...
Hated this book. Couldn't finish it. Got 70% in and just had to skip to the last chapter. The characters made no sense to me and the world building was irrational and had no purpose. Really disappointed.
A forty storey high-rise apartment building stands surrounded only by it's tenants' parking spaces and then, other soon to be completed forty storey high-rise apartment buildings.All is well, initially, as the building fills up with tenants who only need to leave to go to work - the building itself ...
I don't always enjoy books assigned for school but I liked this one, I wanted to know how everything turned out in the end; but man, some parts of this book were messed up.
This puts me in the minority of reviewers here, but I didn't like the book. High-Rise requires a inordinate amount of suspension of belief. They was so much suspension that I didn't think there was anything left that was tangible to reality. I do agree that if given the chance, there are people, lik...
This was my first J.G. Ballard (though I have quite a few on my to-read list) and I enjoyed it, but didn't have the love for it that I thought I would. Maybe I just went into it with too-high expectations. I'm also writing this about a month after reading the novel and my memory of it has already fa...
"Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months." Quite an opening line, huh? Ballard hooked me within a matter of seconds. I loved High-Rise in all its 1975 re...
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