J G Ballard

[WeLuvIbiza]

One of my favourite authors and I didn't even realise he had passed away until searching to check out his latest book


Kingdom Come will be read this next week.


Anyone else a fan of the late great J G?

 

[MARKB]

I've got a lot of his books, my favourite was The Drought.

Totally unique.

 

[jjinit]

cocaine nights read a few years back and got into atrocity exhibition on the back of ian curtiss, but never finished it.

 

[WeLuvIbiza]

Not read The Drought, will book it in next.

It was either Cocaine Nights or Super Cannes that got me into his books.

 

[MARKB]

Not read The Drought, will book it in next.

It was either Cocaine Nights or Super Cannes that got me into his books.

I bought those two books at the same time, and also got "millenium people" shortly afterwards.

It always surprised me that Empire Of the Sun was by Ballard too. But then i only saw the film, not read the book.

 

[WeLuvIbiza]

I bought those two books at the same time, and also got "millenium people" shortly afterwards.

It always surprised me that Empire Of the Sun was by Ballard too. But then i only saw the film, not read the book.

What did you think of millennium people? I got it as audio book and wish I had read it instead, took too long for me to finnish it and lost the flow a couple of times.

Crash was a wierd one!

 

[MARKB]

I thought it had a similar feel to Super Cannes.

I enjoyed it but, was probably my least favourite.

What else did he do apart from those you've mentioned on here already?

 

[WeLuvIbiza]

Lifted from another site:

* The Wind From Nowhere (1961)
* The Drowned World (1962)
* The Burning World (1964; also The Drought, 1965)
* The Crystal World (1966)
* Crash (1973)
* Concrete Island (1974)
* High Rise (1975)
* The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
* Hello America (1981)

* Empire of the Sun (1984)
* The Day of Creation (1987)
* Running Wild (1988)
* The Kindness of Women (1991)
* Rushing to Paradise (1994)
* Cocaine Nights (1996)
* Super-Cannes (2000)
* Millennium People (2003)
* Kingdom Come (2006)

Only read six from that list, I didn't realise he had written so many. Will make a point of getting through them all over the year.

 

[MARKB]

Lifted from another site:

* The Wind From Nowhere (1961)
* The Drowned World (1962)
* The Burning World (1964; also The Drought, 1965)
* The Crystal World (1966)
* Crash (1973)
* Concrete Island (1974)
* High Rise (1975)
* The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
* Hello America (1981)

* Empire of the Sun (1984)
* The Day of Creation (1987)
* Running Wild (1988)
* The Kindness of Women (1991)
* Rushing to Paradise (1994)
* Cocaine Nights (1996)
* Super-Cannes (2000)
* Millennium People (2003)
* Kingdom Come (2006)

Only read six from that list, I didn't realise he had written so many. Will make a point of getting through them all over the year.

Cheers for that. No, I didn't realise he'd wrote so many.