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Re:J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books by Der_Einzige on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:43PM (#39304996)
I read "Crash"[1] by J.G. Ballard because I was forced to read a review of it in Jean Baudrillard's "Simulation and Simulacra"[2].

The number one take away? French post-modernist thinkers and authors are extremely sexually deranged[3][4]. Perfect for Cronenberg

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Ballard_novel) [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petitions_against_age_o... [4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex

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Re:J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books by ghaff on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:55PM (#39305144)
Ballard wrote quite a variety of works from fairly weird, experimental stuff through books in the basically English world destroyed vein (of which Wyndham was probably the best practitioner).
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Re:J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books by dang on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:26PM (#39305571)
Every disaffected teenager should read the Chrysalids. It captures perfectly the feeling that one is a mutant in a deranged adult society, by making it literal.
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