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This book is a sausage made out of roadkill...and glass shards. And forced similes and metaphors strewn about the highway, ugly as a car wreck.
So much semen is spurted and wiped on the dashboard instrument panels that I ceased after awhile to wonder or care how our motorists could even read the dials.
So many commas and clauses litter the paragraphs like so many slashed half-moon rubber tires lining the interstate that one hopes Ballard did not race past the tollbooths and rob the inventors of co ...more
So much semen is spurted and wiped on the dashboard instrument panels that I ceased after awhile to wonder or care how our motorists could even read the dials.
So many commas and clauses litter the paragraphs like so many slashed half-moon rubber tires lining the interstate that one hopes Ballard did not race past the tollbooths and rob the inventors of co ...more
Lots of other people who are a lot better than me have written all kinds of things about this novel. I will say this: The first hundred pages of the novel are relatively un-engaging. It's almost entirely narrative voice with almost zero dialogue interaction between characters. This was especially difficult for me because that's my favorite part of any book--watching how the characters interact with each other. So the concept is fascinating, the narrative is layered upon inspection and flat on th
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I found this book repetitive, boring and even disgusting at some points and I am really sad cause I expected it would have made a great read. Maybe this was the author's intention? I must also add that I am generally not shocked easily at all. Guess I was wrong... Question: Did Vaughn ever wash his pants?
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Crash is a story about characters who “suffer” from symphorophilia, specifically car-crash sexual fetishism. In english that means the protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car-crashes.
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At some points in his career, Ballard claimed that Crash was a "cautionary tale", then adjusting his appoint to stating it is in fact "a psychopathic hymn. But it is a psychopathic hymn which has a point.” That point being he foresaw the over mechanization of the world and man' ...more
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At some points in his career, Ballard claimed that Crash was a "cautionary tale", then adjusting his appoint to stating it is in fact "a psychopathic hymn. But it is a psychopathic hymn which has a point.” That point being he foresaw the over mechanization of the world and man' ...more
When the crash burns sonic exhaust, call to the smoke prayers a leather seat holding while stitching.
meh. while this is a short novel, it should've been shorter, something like an 80 page novella. this was 4 star for me for the first half, and then it just boring and old fast, too much of the same thing over and over.
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