- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (19 Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099334917
- ISBN-13: 978-0099334910
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 228,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction.' Anthony Burgess 'One of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination.' Guardian 'Ballard has issued a series of bulletins on the modern world of almost unerring prescience. Other writers describe; Ballard anticipates.' Will Self 'Britain's number one living novelist.' John Sutherland, Sunday Times
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The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last: ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen and engine coolant in a head-on collision with Elizabeth Taylor.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not really sure what to say....!!,
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This review is from: Crash (Paperback)
Erm!! Probably the weirdest book I will have ever read in my lifetime. I am nearing the end and cannot really decide whether I am enjoying it or not, although to say you are enjoying it does make you sound a bit perverse considering the content!! I did read the reviews before I brought it but because the reviews were so interesting and varied from absymal to absolutely amazing I had to get it to find out for myself. Pretty sick in places and very dark, also (as others have said) fairly repetitive. And yes, the word 'stylized' is way way way over used and its now getting to the point that the word makes me cringe LOL! One of those books that people will have different opinions on depending on how they wish to translate the script. At the end of the day whatever Ballard was trying to achieve with this book to me it is still, at the end of the day, very much just PORN !! Been rushing to finish it so I can start a 'normal' book :-)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Demented and apocalyptic urban nightmare.,
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The publisher who famously suggested after reading Crash that Ballard was, to paraphrase, mentally unhinged, was probably not that far wide of the mark. This book was clearly not written by a well man, and Ballard later admitted much the same, this strange novel being part of his therapy to exsorcise the pain of losing his wife so young. An attempt to debase humanity, to relegate nature and raise the machines.
In Crash, cars are organic and humans are mechanic. Sex is routine, loveless. The car crash is lustful, orgasmic. The novel is written in the detached, cold clinical prose that became Ballard's trademark, and the result is like reading the world's most peculiar car owners manual. But despite the sheer oddity of this book, Crash is a very hard book to finish, let alone enjoy. The endless amount of extreme sex and violence soon becomes a bore, and the characters are, typically for Ballard, no more than cyphers used to act out his demented nightmare.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining ride,
By pingpong (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crash (Paperback)
I'd been wanting to read Ballard for ages but after begining a novel I would find his style over-done, amateurish.
Having persevered with this novel though I can say I am a Ballard convert. He has a particular perspective, in this novel, of mixing the organic with the technological. Which I suppose he has inherited from his medical background. The story is entertaining. But I have not given it 5 stars 'cause it is not totally satisfactory. It does become a little repetitive and the ending seems a wee bit anti-climactical....
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