A review by robertrivasplata
Millennium People, by J. G. Ballard

4.0

Novel bringing all your favourite Ballardisms (mysterious quasi-cult led by diseased charismatic leader, automotive technological fetishism, all viewed through the eyes of a privileged unreliable narrator) into the world of early 2000s London. I remember Crash, Super Cannes, Hello America, & Drowned World taking a while for me to get through & digest, so I'm trying to decide if I zipped through Millennium People because it's one of Ballard's more readable Novels, or if I've just finally become versed in reading Ballard, or oddball literature in general. Millennium people is peppered with what feel like portents of our current world, but the brief discussions of how the more pointless a terrorist attack, the more potent it is seem the most prophetic today. This book is a good place to go looking for quoteable quotes about bourgeois foibles, pop culture, & our neoliberalist world.