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Originally Posted by Wes  Phil, I love that title Against the World, Against Life...
The Ballard shorts are fantastic, I read both Volumes last year - just incredible. In fact I was reading Ballard's 1964 novel, The Drought last week - no one writes sci-fi like Ballard, every page is full of dazzling invention... Phil have you seen the 2000 film adaptation of The Atrocity Exibition ? Well worth seeking out and as dense and impenetrable as the novel... I've heard the 2002 Swedish film Low-Flying Aircraft is good as well... |
Ballard is one of my all time faves. His exploration of social themes over the last 40 years is endlessly fascinating no-one writes detached characters with such skill, yet manages to make the stories utterly absorbing - love him, love him.
My faves are
High-Rise,
Concrete Island and
Super-Cannes, but that's unfair really as I like anything that he's done.
I had no idea
The Atrocity Exhibition was adapted
- gonna have to see that immediately (in fact I just one-clicked bought it on Amazon now!).
Thanks Wes
