Currently Reading Spiral By Koji Suzuki see related

j.g. ballard seems interesting enough. i'd like to check out his books. ah, check out. as in, the library system. i haven't been to lancaster library in a while. used to go like every month a couple years ago. came across a title of ballard's while sitting in a corner of my room, thumbing through the pages of the Black Album. it's this hardback by a fledgling Indo-European playwrite i'd bought at a discount bookstore two doors down from the record store where i used to work. both stores have bit the dust by now. but i still retain a few relics from those days, the Black Album being one of them. it gets its title from a Prince record, as far as i can remember. the story wasn't that great. it sort of lost me in its hazy plotline having to do with the London club scene of the late 80s, drugs, sex, love, Hindu family politics and the politics of religion in a university setting. A lot of ground to cover from cover to cover. some name-dropping brought j.g. ballard's Crash into my consciousness. and now, all these years later, i cared enough to investigate the matter, which has led to my current interest in getting my hands on a copy of this controversial and allegedly "important" piece of 1973. oddly enough, the idea of Crash in all its reckless abandon reminded me of the Cardigans' video for "My Favorite Game." of course, i'm down with that.

but until i can confirm what people have said about Crash, i'm keeping my eyes fixed to the pages of the second of the Ringu series, Spiral. Oooo can you feel the suspense?