Well yes of course.
It's what he's for.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:35, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

What are you reading?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:36, Reply)

JG Ballard.
The Unlimited Dream Company.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:42, Reply)

some people might say that ballard is pretentious

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:00, Reply)

People that would say that just aren't clever enough to properly understand his work.
Soz babygirl.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:02, Reply)

i haven't read any YET (it is in my amazon basket)
i may or may not find it pretentious.

but it strikes me that anything you would enjoy would be unnecessarily full of itself and, yes, pretentious.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:04, Reply)

Have you read The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis?
You'd like that one.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:05, Reply)

i've read most of his stuff, but not that one

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:06, Reply)

It was published as a contract filler between American Psycho and Glamorama but it was written around the same time as Less Than Zero.
So it's minimalist and stark rather than an all out blur of hyperreality and transgressive fiction.

You'd like it.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:10, Reply)

i do like his stuff
ok I shall add that to the amazon basket too
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:18, Reply)

Good girl.
I prefer his minimalism to his postmodernist stuff. I really liked Imperial Bedrooms, including the whole narrative framing that it used. I thought it tied his two styles together perfectly.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:22, Reply)