Crash: A Novel
 

Crash

by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse... (read more)

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Ken W
  • Rated 4 stars

I was traveling to London on business. Whenever I get a chance to go abroad, I try to read something “of the region.” Or at least something that contains a metaphor for the trip. Reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson on my first trip to London and Edinburgh worked quite nicely. Digging into Gulliver’s Travels by Swift while traveling through Sweden, a fantastic land that was completely alien to me at the time, was a perfect call. I won’t discuss the mistake of trying to...

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jossish
  • Rated 1 stars

Misogynistic, pornographic pap. The thing is, I think, Ballard really wants us all to go, "Gosh look how clever you are, breaking down boundaries and shocking us with the links between sex and technology! What a genius!" but actually, he comes across as a bit of a sad sex-obsessed perv.

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