who is making these narrator calls?

So, what was the thinking here, do you suppose? Hmmm, Ballard was English, so let's get a narrator who can do a really REALLY bad British accent? Did the producer think it would what? maybe cute-up this dark novel? it makes the book seem the epitome of what its author was so caustically satirizing. and it utterly wrecks Ballard's final novel, which is a shame.

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Stay with the Narrator!

Ballard's final novel is a black comedy/mystery that's a bit more upbeat than his preceding Cocaine Nights or Super-Cannes (a masterpiece I hope to see come to Audible soon). Few modern writers describe absence or loss with the cool, distant wit of J.G.B., and this book is haunted by the ghost of the protagonist's murdered father and the truth of his death in a sinister shopping mall. After about an hour I liked the narration, and by the time the book was over I felt it was actually an exceptional performance.

Great Story, Poor Reader

Classic J.G. Ballard, a chillingly up-to-date look at a possible future. but Ballard would not be pleased by the reader who adopts a foppish, exaggerated Oxbridge accent for the narrator/chief-protagonist. Ballard would not be pleased. With so many excellent British readers available, why was this American chosen for this book?