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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
I desperately wanted to like this book. Read some reviews and the themes it delves into really interest me. Unfortunately its just so fucking repetitive. When you aren't phased by its grotesque imagery it's just kind of self masturbatory similes and euphemisms to vague life events of a character we know nothing about over and over that meander around the shock value of a car crash fetish . Like ok. Sure. We goon to car crashes. Now what? Nothing that interested me. It was boring. DNF!
An amazingly beautiful story about auto-eroticism framed within the 20th Century iconography of the car
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This had been on my reading list for years, I'm glad I finally got around to read it, this was so bizarre. It took me quite some time to read because even if it's short, it was really intense and I don't read as much as I used to.
Now I'm super excited to check out the Cronenberg adaptation!!
Now I'm super excited to check out the Cronenberg adaptation!!
This is the most horrible book I have ever read (and I have a high tolerance for weird shit, with Naked Lunch being up there on my reading list) and if I didn't have to read it for a course I would have quit a quarter of the way in.
I can't give it a rating. Ballard knew exactly what he was doing and executed it well. It's just that what he was doing was holding up a warped wing mirror and showing the very worst of an alienated, superficial, soulless and pornographic humanity. By the end of the book I was exhausted from the endless onslaught of atrocity. There are no redeeming aspects; the sex in this book is not fun, sensual, or affectionate but rather the repetitive hollow actions of an addict. It left a vile taste in my brain.
I can't give it a rating. Ballard knew exactly what he was doing and executed it well. It's just that what he was doing was holding up a warped wing mirror and showing the very worst of an alienated, superficial, soulless and pornographic humanity. By the end of the book I was exhausted from the endless onslaught of atrocity. There are no redeeming aspects; the sex in this book is not fun, sensual, or affectionate but rather the repetitive hollow actions of an addict. It left a vile taste in my brain.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes