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title: "Atrocity Exhibition, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, December 1, 2015"
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# Atrocity Exhibition, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, December 1, 2015

**Brand:** j. g. ballard
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- **What is this?** Atrocity Exhibition, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, December 1, 2015 by j. g. ballard
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    superb edition
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2011*

I purchased this item and read it while the UK was all about the Royal Wedding. I couldn't help wishing Ballard were alive to say something about that...Be that as it may, this edition is absolutely superb: not only it includes an interview with the author and a short story ("The Smile", written in 1976), it also includes a series of notes from Ballard himself at the end of each chapter. I find these notes extraordinary in every way. Not only for helping in understanding a few things that, for us who were born long after the book was written, may not be as familiar as they were in the '70s, but especially for the things Ballard says about our world, today. It's 2001-Ballard reading what 1970-Ballard wrote. Very enlightening.My suggestion, for those who haven't read Ballard but want to, is to begin with "Crash". It helps to have that in mind when reading "The Atrocity Exhbition", even if it was written a few years later. For die-hard fans of Ballard, this is a must.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A "Shocking" Book Which Has Lost Its Teeth
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019*

To call this book a novel may be a bit of a misnomer. It may be a series of interconnected short stories. It may be, as the author claims, a number of “condensed novels”. Or they may be a series of short vignettes under a blanket tarp. What it can be clearly called is, “experimental fiction”. If you’re not interested in a book that plays with forms, themes, functions, and reality, then you will not want to read this book.If you are worried about things like plot or character development then you are reading the wrong book. There is no clear beginning or end to the book, and it does not follow any of the standard novel conventions. The main character, Talbert (?) changes name with each chapter, just as his role and his visions of the world around him seem to change constantly. If you insist on a plot, then you must look on it as a man having a series of nervous breakdowns in a mental hospital, or a man who is manipulating reality to cause World War Three.If you are wondering how such a book became an underground classic, it's all due to shock value. Like Gravity’s Rainbow and Naked Lunch, the unconventional prose is riddled with sexually explicit descriptions and activities. So much was packed in that the book was brought up on various obscenity charges and banned in a host of countries, thus immortalizing it.The author himself suggest reading it by randomly flipping pages and only taking in those snapshot scenes which catch the eye. This might be the best way, as going through it sequentially is a chore. Another flaw is that this is an obviously boomer book to appeal to the boomer generation. Constant references to people, images, and events from the sixties dates the book severely. While older, well read, people will recognize most of them, but you’d be surprised how many have forgotten them completely.The book has seen various publications over the years, and various parts have been printed in magazines. Each addition seems to add a little to the whole of the book. Every “chapter” is followed by annotations (many of which are more interesting than the actual text), while the RE/Search edition added a series of stimulating photographs and illustrations. So you’re exact experience with this book will differ greatly depending on which edition you read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A great author explicates the sense of his tragedies.
  

*by E***I on Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018*

Ballard shows him-self as important author of fantasy genre. But here he doesn't write a romance, but he constructs a typical explication about several arguments related to his production of romances. All those "escamotages" which represented the factors of success of "Crash" and other principal books are descript with his particular style. So we can see the importance of role of the single words, noting as the sound is relevant for the attention of the lector, but also the "catarsi" has a sense for the developpement of the action. Therefore the violence leaves the "scenario" to a Greek aspect of tragedy.

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