Aurora Ariel
02-18-2006, 10:32 PM
EMPIRE OF THE SUN- Have you read any work by the contemporary writer JG Ballard?
This is one of the most amazingly powerful books I have read recently, and I completely agree that should definitely be included as one of the best British novels ever written about war. Has anyone else happened to read Empire of The Sun by JG Ballard? It was first published to critical acclaim in 1984, and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. I found it to be a remarkable read, and immensely engrossing. I think it has become my favourite novel about World War II. It's so stunningly written, and remains mesmerising right up until the final page. I think it's deservedly heralded as Ballard's greatest work thus far. It was also made into a film, directed by Steven Spielberg, which first came out in 1987, and starred Christian Bale as Jim (Jamie), and John Malkovich (Basie), among others. But I personally think the book is far more superior and vividly chilling in it's depiction of Jim's experiences. It's totally gripping, especially as it is fuses extraordinary autobiographical accounts of the writer, who was born in Shanghai in 1930, and spent four years in the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center. It's one of the books I have read this year, which I would highly recommend to others.
This is one of the most amazingly powerful books I have read recently, and I completely agree that should definitely be included as one of the best British novels ever written about war. Has anyone else happened to read Empire of The Sun by JG Ballard? It was first published to critical acclaim in 1984, and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. I found it to be a remarkable read, and immensely engrossing. I think it has become my favourite novel about World War II. It's so stunningly written, and remains mesmerising right up until the final page. I think it's deservedly heralded as Ballard's greatest work thus far. It was also made into a film, directed by Steven Spielberg, which first came out in 1987, and starred Christian Bale as Jim (Jamie), and John Malkovich (Basie), among others. But I personally think the book is far more superior and vividly chilling in it's depiction of Jim's experiences. It's totally gripping, especially as it is fuses extraordinary autobiographical accounts of the writer, who was born in Shanghai in 1930, and spent four years in the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center. It's one of the books I have read this year, which I would highly recommend to others.