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Review title: a warning to the unversed
Product review: i bought the book because of the rave reviews, because i fancy myself to be progressive and able to think on many levels. however, i was not able to grasp this book - or collection of short essays, or vignettes, or whatever - even with the foreward by burroughs and the extended commentary by ballard. confusion made reading a chore, and not an enjoyable one (where after a mighty struggle i manage to decipher an idea enough to get my mental teeth into it so that i can digest it later).what i mean to say is NOT that this is a bad book, but rather that it is not for those who aren't familiar with ballard's philosophies/notions of automobiles and sex. i wish i could have understood these concepts more because the writing itself was excellent and the structure of the book interestingly different from everything i am used to.in a word: beware.
