What to read next by this mad man?

Love Ballard but I haven't read that one yet. Anyway I'm gonna recommend Unlimited Dream Company.

>>9934056
It was cool, I hear it's like a sequel or rehash of Cocaine Nights. And High Rise sounds pretty close in idea to Super-Cannes too...

I think I'll read Crash next.

>>9934018
Been meaning to start Ballard with Super-Cannes. Did you like it? Ballard seems to trigger the fuck out of people.

>>9934018
FUGGING
RONALD
REAGAN

>>9934301
I liked it. The central idea I had already experienced in the game Bioshock, where all work and no play makes people go insane and perverted, and it felt kind of trite. It was a fun mystery novel, but it wasn't especially edgy. Maybe at the time it was published it would have really got my goat, but nah. Fun read.

Super-Cannes is absolute dogshit to read but it's an interesting novel. The prose is painful and it's wildly cliche (which it's supposed to be a lot of the time, but that doesnt make it enjoyable) and it's way too fucking long. Ballard does interesting shit with archetypes and falling into roles, though.

>>9934364
So then what do you recommend? I feel like I might agree with what you said about Super-Cannes, but I'm not so certain.

>>9934369
It's the only Ballard I've read; I read it in my European Post WWII lit class. I've heard that Cocaine Nights is essentially the same book but better. I know in Super-Cannes he was going for pulp-inspired prose (as in pulp novels like Chandler), not sure if that's the case in Cocaine Nights.
I think this articulates my gripes with Super-Cannes well: it reads as if Ballard was writing it with one hand.

>>9934447
Damn. I wish one of us has read something else by this guy!

I thought Super-Cannes was too pulpy and lazy, too. It was still a fun story though.

>>9934348
have you read henry iv? What do you think of it?

>>9934482
I haven't! Is it related?

>>9934487

Just on the all work, no play subject, but in reverse and in finding a balance.

"If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents."

"O gentlemen, the time of life is short.
To spend that shortness basely were too long
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour."

how is Concrete Island?