Crash, J.G. Ballard
Crash, J.G. Ballard
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Crash

Author: J.G. Ballard

Narrator: Roger Hampton

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/04/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

An underground classic, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations. In this 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 then 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 internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on November 19, 2020

*****WARNING THIS IS A GRAPHIC ADULT REVIEW NO KIDDIES PLEASE.***** ”I knew that Vaughan could never really die in a car-crash, but would in some way be re-born through those twisted radiator grilles and cascading windshield glass. I thought of the scarred white skin over his abdomen, the heavy pubic......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on December 30, 2019

Not a "novel" really—see it as an extended erotic poem instead. It’s one pretty cool experience, & fantastically odd; it’s 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 hum......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 03, 2019

Before reading this book, I thought I was worldly, weary, and wise. I thought I had seen all the perversity and sex that modern novels could deliver. I thought I understood fetish. I understood nothing. This is a wild poem in novel format drawing out the most sexual visualizations. I could compare it......more

Goodreads review by Meike on February 13, 2025

Celebrity culture, modern technology, and sexual fetishes have never collided (haha, sorry) like this: Ballard's wicked masterpiece shows a group of people who get off from being involved in car accidents, they dream of crashing into Elizabeth Taylor and having an orgasm while becoming road kill. Ap......more

Goodreads review by Cody on June 02, 2017

Uh, I’m pretty sure it’s a metaphor. Just kidding. I never read reviews of a book I’m about to gobble or have just finished, lest they unduly influence my perception. Last night, however, I did make the mistake of looking at my friends’ reviews of this (you’re all good) and accidentally glanced at the......more