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Millennium People Paperback – Import, 9 May 2024

by J. G. Ballard (Author), Iain Sinclair (Introduction)
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Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes.

Like every obedient professional, I arrived punctually for my appointment with a revolution.

When a bomb explosion at Heathrow airport kills psychologist David Markham’s ex-wife, he sets out on a journey to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death. As he infiltrates a shadowy group of middle-class revolutionaries based in the comfortable Chelsea Marina, Markham soon finds himself swept up in a bourgeois insurrection that is sending the capital into panic.

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‘Unsettling and subversive … terrifically good’ Sunday Times

'Terrifying and strangely haunting … A riveting work from a writer of rare imaginative largesse, a bearer of bad tidings, unforgettably told' Daily Telegraph

'Wonderfully warped, blackly comic … written with Ballard's customary panache, its potent mix of sex, violence and radicalism will keep his fans happy’ Economist

‘Ballard’s instinct for the future is unnerving … Very few writers possess this kind of intelligence: to use it with such wit is almost criminal’ Independent on Sunday

‘The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?’ Len Deighton

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J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0006551610
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate; paperback / softback edition (9 May 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007185332
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0006551614
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.1 x 2 x 19.5 cm
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  • Greycynic
    5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbingly beautiful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 November 2017
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    I am not sure why I love this book. It is a typical Ballard dystopian view of the middle classes involving an injured aviator, unconventional marriages and a gated community. As someone who has lived in London most of my life the geographical backdrop has a familiarity that made the plot particularly disturbing. Much more so than that of either Super-Cannes or Cocaine Nights.

    When I finished reading "Millennium People" I found myself thinking of some of Leonard Cohen's songs. I don't know why but suddenly 'Dance me to the End of Love' came to mind. It could be the way that Ballard circles the narrative, starting in real time, dropping into a flashback for the bulk of the story before returning to real time for the ending. In like way his characters circle around each other in some wierd dance. Relationships are constantly changing through constant betrayals and everyone seems to be hiding their true selves behind a mask. It seems to me that the whole storyline is like a Venetian masked ball where everyone is living in some strange fantasy being unfaithful to their partners, their friends and even their ideals. Finally, when dawn breaks, the dream collapses. Everyone returns to reality pretending that none of the previous night's events happened and dissembling where needed to protect themselves and their friends.

    The fantasy, although frightening, is all too plausible while the cycles and epicycles built into the plot line have a satisfying completion. (There is something there that appeals to the mathematician in me). This is why I describe "Millennium People" as 'disturbingly beautiful' and why I have given it five stars. I recommend this book to all but be aware that this an adult read that could prove very unsettling to many.
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  • Law Tech
    4.0 out of 5 stars Requiem for Jill Dando
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2018
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    No really, her murder is in the story. Not that it needs to be in this tale of middle class rebellion. It remains unexplained and to all intents and purposes utterly pointless. Which is the point of its inclusion. In our sterile and meaningless lives only pointless and extreme acts can give any meaning back. Which is of course, ridiculous. Which is probably why in the end the rebellion peters out and the middle class rebels all drift back to the banality of their suburban existence. Essential reading.
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  • Lonya53
    3.0 out of 5 stars "Losers of worlds at heaven's bidding
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 December 2011
    Watching the Devil kick the Millennium
    Over the Golden Mountain." Edgar Lee Masters

    "Millennium People" has an interesting story line. Set in the UK shortly after the Millennium, psychologist David Markham is mourning the murder of his ex-wife. She was the victim of a terrorist bombing at Heathrow Airport. Determined to get to the bottom of the matter he begins his own personal investigation. He quickly finds himself thrown into a strange world: a world filled not with foreign interlopers from abroad or proletarian rebels but, rather, one filled with disaffected tea-sipping, Volvo-driving, over-extended mortgage holding members of the British middle classes. For reasons explained in the book they are just fed up, prisoners of their own success apparently. And, contrary to what one would expect of a stereotypical British member of the bourgeoisie, they seem easily led to increasingly violent acts. Finally, Markham meets the `hidden hand' behind the angst and from there the story comes to a rather dramatic conclusion.

    By the time I was one-third of the way through J.G. Ballard's "Millennium People" I was reminded of Lindsay Anderson's 1968 movie If... (The Criterion Collection) in which a young Malcolm MacDowell play a privileged teen who, chafing at the oppression of an old, elite English boarding school, leads a group of children of the middle and upper classes on a violent revolt. Millennium People struck me a story of what those teens might get up to if they had decided to rebel against their stolid, middle class, middle-age surroundings. I soon became convinced that the book reminded me of Paddy Chayefsky's Network, where people, once again mostly middle class start chanting "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." By the time I was finished, when the Millennium People took its last twist and turn, or descent if you will into a study of madness, I was sure that it shared some literary DNA with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

    These shifting comparisons represent for me both the enjoyment and disappointment I had with Millennium People. Weaving three themes through a book is not all that unusual and when it works it can be brilliant. But, when they don't connect, when the individual themes don't seem well-integrated than I think that leaves room for a bit of disappointment. That was the difficulty I had with Millennium People. At the end of the day I think of a book in which the individual parts were greater than the whole. While the book was a pleasure to read, as Ballard's books typically are, I felt a bit unsatisfied. Now this dissatisfaction is not the sort I feel when I read a `bad' book. Rather, it is the slight disappointment I feel when I read a book that is filled with terrific passages, with good writing and thoughtful insights into the human condition but which does not quite live up to the expectations that those passages and insights provide.

    As noted, I admire Ballard's work. Although perhaps best known for Crash and Empire of the Sun I think his best work can be found in his short stories. His The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard show Ballard at his finest. I think coming to Millennium People after his short stories may be responsible for my slight disappointment. His short stories are masterful, compact, and powerful. All in all, I would recommend Millennium People to any reader. Despite my disappointment I was far from sorry that I read the book. It kept me engaged throughout. It just didn't quite live up to the promise of its individual themes.
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  • Jeanette Porter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2015
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    my daughter loved the book and it was worth the price.
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  • Trufflebottom
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very thought provoking
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2018
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    I did enjoy this book but feel that a lot of its deeper meaning passed me by - I understood some but by no means all of it. Very thought provoking.
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  • Minacha Camino
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2014
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    Great! Thanks.
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  • Sarah A. Brown
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ballard by the book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2010
    I enjoyed the novel's central conceit - the focus on a middle class rather than a proletarian revolution - which produced some wittily incongruous scenes. This is a clever and impeccably stylish novel, but I can't say I particularly enjoyed it, or felt it offered much which couldn't be found in some of the earlier novels such as Crash and High-Rise. Of course there were some memorable scenes and moments - yet I found myself comparing Millennium People unfavourably with other novels which manage to be coolly postmodern AND thoroughly engaging - American Psycho and Fight Club for example.
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  • harriot arbuthnot
    3.0 out of 5 stars millenium people
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2009
    I'm a bit disappointed with this book. It's readable, but not riveting. It raises a worrying prospect, but not as well as some of Margaret Atwood's work. One chapter in particular is faction, and I don't really like that. It seems to belie the trust between author and reader. I believed every word of Empire of the Sun and in that case a trust was established. But I don't think JG Ballard knows who killed Jill Dandoe. One hopes that if he did he would have told the police!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding service!
    Reviewed in France on 26 February 2016
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    As always this book from Worlbbooks is in excellent condition, very clean and crisp. The delivery service is the fastest any company in England gives, even Amazon! They are always the book company I look at first and they always deliver an incredible service.
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  • BaliSally
    2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't live up to my expectations
    Reviewed in Canada on 21 August 2013
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    I read this on the recommendation of a BBC Book Club Review. Unfortunately, for me, it didn't live up to the hype. I thought it was rather dreadful - the characters were not likeable (maybe they weren't supposed to be!), and it was not as suspenseful as I had hoped it would be. Millennium People promised much, but didn't deliver.
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Falsche Lieferung von Amazon
    Reviewed in Germany on 22 August 2014
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    Die Abbildung der Vorderseite ist von der neuen Auflage mit einem 'Introduction by Ian Sinclair'. Amazon hat die 2004 Auflage geschickt (Abbildung der Rückseite). Ich wollte die neue Auflage und habe die alte Auflage bekommen. Sehr verwirrende Abbildung des Produktes von Amazon. Werde bestellen erneut wenn Amazon das Problem beseitigt.
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  • Pawel Kubiak
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect novel!
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 May 2009
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    I want to make a short review: This is one the greatest novels ever! There is an action, there is a vision, and there is a wisdom within those beautiful sentences that I want to memorize, like: "The world had provoked her, and irrational acts were the only way to defuse its threat," or: "We think we believe in God but we're terrified by the mysteries of life and death," or: "You don't realize it, David, but you're the apostle of a new kind of alienation," etc. This novel is like a good and strong sex: tasty, pleasurable, dangerous, fulfilling. Great study of revolution and violence in society. Read it, read it, read it!!!
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  • B.B
    5.0 out of 5 stars People who find the world meaningless find meaning in pointless violence.
    Reviewed in Japan on 11 August 2007
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    前2作『コカイン・ナイト』『スーパー・カンヌ』と同様な設定で話は展開します。
    今回の舞台はロンドンの中流層の住宅地チェルシー・マリーナで、社会の中核となる専門職を主体とした人々の反乱が描かれます。主人公デイヴィッドは心理学者で愛らしい財産家の令嬢と裕福な再婚生活を送っています。彼が妻と二人で旅行に出かけようと空港に向かう準備をしているその時にヒースロー空港で爆弾テロが発生、元妻が犠牲となります。その真相を探っていくうちにチェルシー・マリーナに深く潜入する事になるのです。

    チェルシー・マリーナの風変わりな反乱はどう展開するのか、その中でデイヴィッドがどのように心身とも変貌していくのかが描かれます。そして爆弾テロの真相と犯人の精神構造が明らかになる時に社会病理の解剖も終了するのです。性的・暴力的シーンは少なくなっていますが精神的な傷をもつ背徳的な妖しい魅力の人々が脇をしっかり固めるのは前２作と同様。多少ミステリ色は強くなってる印象です。静かな語り口に誘い込まれバラードワールドにズブズブと沈んでいく、そんな悪癖に耽溺するような感覚を呼び起こす筆力は健在です。
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