High-Rise

My first foray into Ballard, which is probably ridiculously long overdue.

So. Yeah. Privileged rich people in a big building go Lord of the Flies, but it's quite absurdist. No one is poor, just varied levels of wealthy. And with all the tech at their disposal, they all go slowly mad until they are warring with each other and destroying everything in the building. The devolve each of them into something bestial and crude.

I don't find this story to be viable, but if I liked it more, liked the characters more, I could suspend my disbelief.

The movie doesn't help the situation. I thought the cast was distracting. And all I could picture WAS the cast throughout this book.

Not my favorite, but because Ballard is important, and I loved the movie ‘Empire of the Sun,' this will not be my last.