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32. Crash - J G Ballard (Finished June 12) 203 pgs
Having just finished this book, I am not really sure what I think yet. My initial feelings are somewhere between disgust and enjoyment. With that broad spectrum as a starting point, I will have to wait to see what it boils down to. At this ... ... a.
Death of a Murderer is set around the death of Myra Hindley (though she's not named in the text).
J. G. Ballard's Crash could be another option if your readers are strong of stomach.
... you're looking at. Ballard's exercises in hyper description (like the description of the slow motion crash test film in Crash) owe a lot to Robbe-Grillet's approach.
His books clean out the cobwebs for me;I find it fascinating how much drama he manages to generate by the juxtaposition of ... ... viewed as a genre writer in the UK for decades) - as far as novels are concerned, he had left the field as long ago as Crash.
The story about The Atrocity Exhibition is that the initial US edition was pulped in 1969 when the then governor of California, Ronald Reagan, toured the plant ... Cell by Stephen King
Back by Henry Green
Crash by J.G. Ballard
Carn by Patrick McCabe
Shroud by John Banville
It looked difficult at first, but I was surprised at how quickly I found some in my library. ... of why they are MDs....?
well, happy reading and for Ballard you might want to try (if you feel brave) his novel Crash though for many people it can be hard to take on some levels...
High Rise is one my favourites, and does feature a doctor as the main character...
a more recent ... ... time were The Once And Future King and Borstal Boy, followed closely by Absolute Beginners, The Magic Labyrinth and Crash. I still love those books, though I'm not so much into SF and fantasy any more.
No matter how I try to whittle my favourite books down to less than fifty, I can't. ...
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