Sadie Dunham’s Reviews > The Drowned World > Status Update

This writer definitely likes to hear himself talk. I find this book a bit wordy. The author certainly does not shy away from prolixity.

Dang, that is a ton of words…
Hurts my brain a bit because half of them I don’t understand, but we suffer through

“We conclude that Ballard (the author) is quite unstimulated by human interaction- unless it takes the form of something inherently weird, like mob atavism or mass hysteria. What excites him is human isolation.”
- Quote from introduction by Martin Amis