/lit/ - Literature

*blocks your path*

Where's an ideal place to start if I want to read JG Ballard? The Drowned World seems like the obvious choice but I'm not sure how good it actually is.

is The Drowned World accessible and not excessively long? I'm kind of a brainlet

Is The Drowned World the best place to start?

Where should I start with Ballard?

should I start with High-Rise or The Drowned World?

>To use the stylistic conventions of the traditional oral novel – the sequential narrative, characters 'in the round', consecutive events, balloons of dialogue attached to 'he said' and 'she said' – is to perpetuate a set of conventions ideally suited to the great tales of adventure in the Conradian mode, or an overformalized Jamesian society, but now valuable for little more than the bedtime story and the fable. To use these conventions to describe events in the present is to write a kind of historical novel in reverse.

was he right?

Anyone like Ballard? I read Super-Cannes years ago and didn't like it that much, but for some reason it stayed with me and I think of it every now and then.