Why is JG BALLARD shilled here when his books get such bad ratings? Or are we just smarter than the guys on axon :^)

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Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:21:27 2020 No.15651169 [Reply] [Original]

Why is JG BALLARD shilled here when his books get such bad ratings? Or are we just smarter than the guys on axon :^)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:25:37 2020 No.15651182 ratings reflect normie taste in 99% of instances.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:29:32 2020 No.15651199 >>15651169 hes too based for pseuds

Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:38:10 2020 No.15651231

>>15651169
Ballard said on writing Crash that he wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit. Now it's easy to imagine that as a hypothetical third person having his face vomit rubbed, or as an abstract person representing the rest of humanity, that you are somehow above or not a part of. Within a few pages you realise, dear reader, that it is your own face that is being rubbed in your own vomit. The ratings reflect that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:42:25 2020 No.15651242 File: 49 KB, 69x120, 1592555587057.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] because he was a novelist of recent past that predicted how fucking insanely degenerated our culture would become but he doesn't write about it like a fascist retard.

Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:48:49 2020 No.15651262

>>15651242
This is a great way to put it. He shows the excesses of humanity and what kind of life might thrive between its cracks without being political or religious about it. Since he's a filthy Anglo his stories also don't forget to be stories, unlike your average Burgerstani. He's like a better, more structured William S. Burroughs. Empire of the Sun is incredible (the war is over, we should be celebrating, but all it has done is usher in a new sense of uncertainty that has transformed every aspect of life). Ballard grew up in Shanghai during the war but was educated as a Brit, yet he felt utterly alienated when he actually moved to Britain and saw the way people lived, the highways that were cutting through these old beautiful towns, the way we project our psychological faults through technology, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 20 05:52:41 2020 No.15651278 His short stories are even better - same high impact, more concentrated dose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 20 08:41:34 2020 No.15651892 >3.5/5 is a "bad" rating What a hollow and stultifying way to approach books

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 20 09:10:46 2020 No.15652002 >>15651892 goodreads reviews dont work like that. barely any book has a rating below 3 stars. 3 and a half stars is generally considered a mediocre rating. its obviously pretty stupid and just shows how people dont know how to judge properly

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