Sorry I didn't want to akkksshuualy you btw lololffs
I think Miracles of Life was his last (non-fiction), but I've yet to read that one. It's amazing how his books seems so cinematic, your two mentions, cocaine night, super Cannes. But apart from Crash his fiction hasn't really been taken up (High Rise was p dissapiiting so not counting lol). You'd think with so much dystopian TV/film adaptations would make sense, but alas no. Probably for the best really. I suppose both cronenberg's are indebted to him massively. Have you seen the latest Brandon cronenberg? Infinity Pool?
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/books/j-g-ballards-memoir-miracles-of-life.html
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Yeah, I wasn't counting "Miracles of Life" but I fully deserve to be ackshullied from time to time. I haven't read it either - I bought it when it came out and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since.
Cocaine Nights would make an excellent film, but as cinematic as his stuff is, there's still a weird psychological dimension cinema can't reach. Crash was good, but nothing in the book. Haven't seen High Rise (came out after I entered my bubble - the only non-kids film I've seen since 2008 was the Alan Partridge film) or Atrocity Exhibition. Hadn't even heard of Infinity Pool.
oh yeaaah there was atrocity exhibition too, didn't really count that cos it was more art video-y than what i was thinking.
well, if you decide to peer out the bubble i think Possessor and Infinity Pool by cronenberg jr might be interesting in a pretty ballardian way. I should watch daddy cronenberg's Crimes of the Future. I'm always whingeing about having nothing new to watch.
I don't want to talk about the pile of unread books today ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜