I've not seen the film version of Empire of The Sun, which was a semi-flop for Stephen Spielberg in 1987. For the first hundred or so pages there's plenty of incidents that would lend themselves well to an action movie. JG Ballard greatest strength is as a creator of images through text, creating visual events that linger long after the details of ( Read more... )

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