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A review by hieronymusbotched
Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
4.0
Enjoyable, make-your-nose-bleed prescience once again from Ballard, and a pretty deft little murder mystery to boot.
I think one of Ballard's great gifts is the way he never flinches, no matter how grim the subject. The prose arrives alive and immediate - and in some scenes, even nauseatingly so. Trigger warnings galore.
And alarm bells. As with every other book of his I read, I'm more disturbed than entertained. It must have been painful to live inside his consciousness. Murky.
Like a crystal ball in a can of coke saying this will happen, this is happening, this has happened, this is.
I think one of Ballard's great gifts is the way he never flinches, no matter how grim the subject. The prose arrives alive and immediate - and in some scenes, even nauseatingly so. Trigger warnings galore.
And alarm bells. As with every other book of his I read, I'm more disturbed than entertained. It must have been painful to live inside his consciousness. Murky.
Like a crystal ball in a can of coke saying this will happen, this is happening, this has happened, this is.