Title: Not my thing
Product review: I did not like this novel at all. I respect the author's audacity, and I admire his descriptive powers and use of language. Also, the issue of technology and machinery in modern human interactions is an important subject; it's what brought me to the book.The problem is that nothing much happens. I didn't mind the gore or explicit sex; I minded the fact that I didn't care about the characters or the plot. It's a theme-driven novel, and the theme doesn't change or evolve. The descriptions of cars, airplanes, crashes, sexual escapades, drug trips -- they're the same at the start as at the finish. I wanted to grab the author and yell, "OK, OK, I get it; can we move on now?"The only reason I don't give it 1 star is that Ballard's use of language is great, and his themes are important. But that's all I got out of this novel.
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