[Editorial note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash. I’ve preserved the reviewers’ original punctuation and spelling. More one-star Amazon reviews.].
Honestly.
massive car wrecks
I like Ballard’s work
nearly killing his wife
I can’t wrap my brain around the idea
I don’t consider myself to be socially conservative, but
Also won’t the police be keeping track of the guy’s driving record?
I find it gross that wounds from these car wrecks would turn women on
talked extensively of the steering column, instrument panel, and bonnet
Contrary to this book’s classification as a social technological fiction,
having sex with any women he can find
and lots of masturbating
messed up fetish
hard to believe
crashing it
unrealistic
gratuitous
assigned reading
required for a college course
hated every twisted minute of it
I wish I could scrub it from my brain
one must debate the author’s motives
an obsession which could only be satisfied by having sex in car
the perverse inner workings of the author, J.G. Ballard’s, mind
automobiles, sex, and death
perverse and sick fantasies
fuel his obsession
so disturbing
Poppycock.
lewd, dark, introvert
driven by his own libido
mind is completely altered
His sexual relations were not sincere
scars and disfigurements
truly fails on all levels
conniving ways
obsessing
obsessive
minions
mangled leftovers
mere marionettes
perverse sexuality
increasingly disturbing
perverse way of thinking
hardly worth a sexual climax
It was written in 1973 and seems to take place in 1973
Just some perverts lobbing semen around car wrecks.
a radical depiction of society’s addiction to technology
It is hard for me to make a connection between cars and sex.
sexual obsession of the body stamped by the technology of the car
What’s the commentary, car wrecks are bad?
savage appetite for car crashes and victims
riddled with atrocious sexual fantasies
hard to follow and digest
void of any substance
surprisingly disgusting
spreading his semen
collision course
Elizabeth Taylor
scars and fantasies
former sports car
invalid car
braces
acid trip
scars and divots
the average reader
It elicits the response it is written to do so.
Read it for class, but would never read again.
Anyone reading this for its erotic content will be as disappointed
I understand books are written to prompt a question, to get somebody thinking. But
on a list of some guy’s “best science fiction” on the internet
I have read a number of Ballard’s works
one of the worst books I have ever read
fantasy story (not sexual fantasy)
How is it science fiction?
rancid mayonaise
dry, mechanical
Car fetish porn.
I don’t get it.
not art
not prose
junk
Biblioklept 
I’d like to think many of these would have made Ballard chuckle.
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