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High-Rise - J.G. Ballard
High-Rise
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In High-Rise, Ballard once again attacks our uneasy truce with the artificial. Four futuristic high-rise apartment buildings have been built. Catering to the wealthy, these buildings are in fact enclosed worlds, featuring day-care, schooling, swimming pools and grocery stores. As the new tenants... show more
In High-Rise, Ballard once again attacks our uneasy truce with the artificial. Four futuristic high-rise apartment buildings have been built. Catering to the wealthy, these buildings are in fact enclosed worlds, featuring day-care, schooling, swimming pools and grocery stores. As the new tenants adjust to life aboard one of the high-rise complexes, violence escalates and m
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 173
Edition language: English
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The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it
4.0 I don't think I'll be watching this movie
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...
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5.0 (Audiobook) High-Rise
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...
Hayley's Thoughts.
Hayley's Thoughts. rated it
3.0 High Rise (Flamingo Modern Classic)
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...
Tyler's Book LIst
Tyler's Book LIst rated it
2.0 High-Rise
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.
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog rated it
2.0
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 ...
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