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Original Title:	Crash
ISBN:	0312420331 (ISBN13: 9780312420338)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	James Ballard, Dr. Robert Vaughan

Crash Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Crash
Author	:	J.G. Ballard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2001 by Picador (first published June 28th 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Literature

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In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.

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There are very few movies even remotely interesting enough to warrant reading the book it was adapted from; but back in the glorious years of the late 1990s, when I saw David Cronenbergs masterful adaptation of Crash, I knew there was absolutely no way I could go wrong with the book. Lets face it, there is absolutely no way that you can sit through the entirety of the film and not get it on with whoever happens to be in close proximity, but just make sure there is someone there, even if its a

Driving is such a pain in the ass. I always imagine myself crashing the car, colliding with a truck full of chickens, or running over a demented pedestrian whenever Im holding a steering wheel. Not that Im a bad driver, actually Im an excellent driver which really means I drive like a sloth. Also, I dont really aim sexual fulfillment whenever I get into a car. Unlike most people in this novel, a car, for me, is actually something I use to get somewhere. And as opposed to Ballards autoperverts

22nd book of 2020.If you're squeamish, look away now. Incoming car crashes and sex. I knew this book was about car crash fetishism, but I wasn't expecting so much of it. The plot was very repetitive, though, I can't fault Ballard's writing. There's hardly any dialogue either. Just lots of crashes and describing them, tangled up cars and wrecked metal. And semen. Ballard uses the word semen a lot in this book. And anus. And, at one point, rectal mucus, which is absolutely disgusting. Sure, it's a

The word "semen" appears in this novel 61 times."Blood" appears 78 times."Vomit", 11 times."Mucus", 8 times."Excrement", thrice.and "Smegma", twice.That's really all you need to know about this novel. Oh, and it's about a bunch of people who get off during car crashes. In case you couldn't guess from all the semen.

Crash was a very 1990s book, if you were young in Britain and into a certain strain of indie culture. I bought my first copy nearly 25 years ago, probably just before the film was out, and didn't get round to reading that, nor the replacement I bought around 10 years ago. Nearing the end of 2019, I figured I didn't want to carry the novel over into yet another decade unread - and these days it seems ubiquitous in libraries (in an edition embellished with essays by Zadie Smith and non-fiction



Not a "novel" reallysee it as an extended erotic poem instead. Its one pretty cool experience, & fantastically odd; its a journey of infatuation into the erotic element inherent in all car crashes. Like a dada experiment with clashing ideas and absurd pop symbols, everything is sensuous, even human defects are seen through a wholly unique filter, in sharp contrast with the immaculate beauty of the automobile. Sex, like driving, has plenty of potential energy that's stored upthe want for a