i should like JG Ballard and I wish I did, but the one I read
'drowned world' wasn't that great and one of his more recent ones (which critics seemed to think was all original and cutting edge) seemed to be based on ideas that have been used in sci fi for a while.

(bear in mind that last comment is from me just reading a couple of reviews and the back of the book, it is is a little but uninformed)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 19:24, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

He stopped writing sci fi in the early 70s or so.
When he moved into writing experimental stuff like The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash.

So you've only read The Drowned World? I suggest his complete short stories, massive book but has a very discernible thematic line as he got older. Got much better as time went on too, a lot of writers peter out as they age.

Absolutely fantastic writer.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 19:27, Reply)

I might give it another go sometime
I think i was just so unimpressed with drowned world I instantly put him in the 'overrated' column
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 19:29, Reply)

Never ever ever watch the movie Crash.
Utter poo and does not do the book any justice.
(Now inspired to put on The Normal 'Warm Leatherette' )
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 20:15, Reply)

I didn't mind the film.
Didn't really see the point in Cronenberg making a film of it though, which is the same way I felt about Naked Lunch.

Some texts are best as words on a page.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 20:53, Reply)

I liked the film of The Naked Lunch
but granted it has very little to do with the material in the book. It has more to do with the circumstances around the writing of it and the inspirations behind it.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 21:06, Reply)

It does.
But it hardly qualifies it as a film of Naked Lunch though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 21:09, Reply)

Like I said, it has little to do with the material
but the film as a stand-alone thing worked. I liked the humour of it. Even the extra things it added, like the typewriter business, I thought fit well.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 21:22, Reply)

I love the humour and humanity of Burroughs' work.
Not sure Cronenberg is the man to translate it to the screen though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 21:58, Reply)

A marvellous piece of stripped down electronica
if I may say so.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 20:58, Reply)

Stripped down electronica?
Oh, Warm Leatherette.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 21:00, Reply)

It sounded great, too.
Have now stayed in the Ballard mode with Siouxsie's 'The Scream'.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 21:07, Reply)