JG Ballard (1930-2009)

[Lauren Hynde]

My favourite authors keep dropping like flies. Today, the world got a little less interesting. Rest in peace, James. We'll always have Cannes.

Obituary: JG Ballard

 

[CharleyH]

My favourite authors keep dropping like flies. Today, the world got a little less interesting. Rest in peace, James. We'll always have Cannes.

Obituary: JG Ballard

Does this mean we will have to watch Cronenberg's 'Crash' again tonight, baby?

Also, this week in news ... Marilyn Chambers passed away. She was one of the first porn stars to make inroads into mainstream interracial sex (Behind the Green Door) and eeirily, she's also associated with a Cronenberg film.

 

[Middleagepoet]

My favourite authors keep dropping like flies. Today, the world got a little less interesting. Rest in peace, James. We'll always have Cannes.

Obituary: JG Ballard

Just heard it today... the world's not as crystal clear anymore.

 

[TE999]

My favourite authors keep dropping like flies. Today, the world got a little less interesting. Rest in peace, James. We'll always have Cannes.

Obituary: JG Ballard

Damn! I liked his stories. I think 'The Wind From Nowhere' was my favorite. His powers of description were excellent.

 

[Verdad]

Sorry to hear this. I've been chickening out of reading The Crash for a long time now; the curiosity is strong, though. I'll inflict it on my psyche some time soon.

 

[Tzara]

I've been chickening out of reading The Crash for a long time now; the curiosity is strong, though. I'll inflict it on my psyche some time soon.

Do. It is perhaps the most obscene book I have ever read, and I mean that in a good way. Weirdly fascinating.

Perverse, rather than provocative, at least in my opinion. I can see why it appealed to Cronenberg.

I have by no means read much of Ballard, but everything I've read has been distinctive, intelligent, and argumentative. In the USA, it's a pejorative tag to be labeled "SF," which Ballard was (tagged with, not limited to), with the exception of Empire of the Sun. This is unfortunate, as he was a fabulous writer. One of the most distinctive writers currently being published.

I'll miss him.

 

[jomar]

Does this mean we will have to watch Cronenberg's 'Crash' again tonight, baby?

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I wrote a review for Crash that ended with the moral of the story: Wear your seatbelts, but not your panties. Wish I could find it because it had some good stuff about the braces as metaphor for internal damage or something quite absurd.

Stop me if I'm repeating myself.

 

[ChubbyTexan]

I had the pleasure of carrying on a brief postal correspondence with Ballard in the late 1990s. He is and will always be my favorite author. I learned of his passing within the past couple of hours and still feel as though I've had the wind knocked out of me.

 

[neonlyte]

Sad loss

 

[Dragonlipz]

His work was provocative and disturbing, challenging at all times.....I guess that's why I liked it...
So it goes....