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Monday, April 20, 2009
J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009
British writer J.G. Ballard has died at the age of 78.He wrote Empire of the Sun and Crash, both of which were made into movies.
The Crash based on his book is the 1996 cars-n-sex one that starred Holly Hunter and James Spader, not the 2004 L.A. race relations one with Sandra Bullock and Don Cheadle.
Some of Ballard's other books: The Crystal World, Day of Creation, Concrete Island, The Kindness of Women and Rushing to Paradise.
BoingBoing has a nice tribute with links here.
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Posted by Mr. Hehn at 1:21 PM 
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"Empire of the Sun" is an unabashedly great book, mainly for the reason The Guardian points out: a total contrarian viewpoint. You expect a book about the horrors of a concentration camp, and you get it presented as an adventure. An unpleasant adventure, yes, but an adventure just the same. His later books are great and entirely different, of course, but that one stuck with me.
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