
Crash di J. G. Ballard
Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with cover designed by Bill Botten. …
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Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with cover designed by Bill Botten. …

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J. G. Ballard: High-rise (2012, Liveright)
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Chiang is full of very brilliant ideas, seeds of excellent story seeds that could blossom into wonderful narratives. But it seems to me that he is more in love with the idea of showing off these seeds than actually growing them (that takes hard toiling). And if I am not mistaken he has also acknowledged as much in some interviews. Would be more 3.5 stars but some ideas are damn good.
It would be 2 stars but damn Kuang knows how to write. I guess I worked myself up a bit after Babel but that's a steep cliff to fall from. Anyway... Too much romance and too much banality for my sake, but then again an Alice and a Peter chasing down logical rabbit holes, I should have expected banal. I guess I will have to wait for her next novel to see if she rises back to the high standards she herself has drawn. Still to be honest there is a lot of good and interesting ideas in the book, but there are parts of it frankly too much akin to psycholove drama. Not my corner, simple as that ;)