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Cocaine Nights

J.G. Ballard

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 5937 Users | 242 Reviews

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Title	:	Cocaine Nights
Author	:	J.G. Ballard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	April 16th 1999 by Counterpoint (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery

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This book started out with tremendous promise. That sounds more patronising than I would like. It blew my mind. Is that better? I couldn't believe I had avoided this author for so long. If you are an avid reader, not reading J.G. Ballard is like depriving yourself of air. Each sentence glitters with intelligence. The rhythm, the poise, the vocabulary, the imagery are all perfect. He has a fine sense of character and there is passion beneath his hard, cynical edge.

But as the book goes along it degenerates. Not because of the language, which continues to be perfect: perfectly judged and perfectly paced. The similes come just as thick and fast as before. The words still glitter. The images still haunt your brain.

But something happens to the credibility. J.G. Ballard is not like other men. He is aloof from ordinary human motivation. His psychology is not quite sane. He has a pathological empathy with weird conditions. He imagines humanity differently from the rest of us.

So I stopped enjoying it. He lays the groundwork for his plot very thoroughly. He is like an advertising man. He is very persuasive and very plausible. But his words are a veneer laid over a corrupt underbelly that failed to convince. The twist at the end also didn't ring true.

I was disappointed. I was bitterly disappointed. Because when he is good he is breathtakingly good.

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Original Title:	Cocaine Nights
ISBN:	1582430179 (ISBN13: 9781582430171)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Prentice, Frank Prentice
Literary Awards:	Whitbread Award Nominee for Novel (1996)

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This will be the first of three reviews that center around a world that has lost its moral and ethical compass. I didn't plan this as a reading theme, but it came up! Of the three, this is probably the most realistic (not hard when the other two are G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, and C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength,) and also the most pessimistic. This is likely because the other two authors are deeply Christian, and so have a solution for the world's woes. Ballard, writing far

**************** IGHT, YO, I'VE COME BACK TO THIS REVIEW********************Although everything I've said below is true, I'm gonna have to lower that whole five-star thing now because it just doesn't sit well with me. I'll lower the rating, too -- but only by a bit.4.251********************************************************************************There is a very high possibility that I have slurped too much tea but I couldn't put the fucking thing down. Every single thing about this book

I didn't know what to expect from a book titled "Cocaine Nights", so I was surprised when I really, really liked it. Charles' brother, Frank, has been accused of multiple murders in a tiny resort town in Spain and has pleaded guilty. Charles travels to the town to investigate what happened for himself, knowing his brother could not have harmed anyone, let alone killed several people. Estrella de Mar is a thriving, exciting town with an interesting cast of characters. Charles falls into the

Like a less-good Super-Cannes xDWith this, Super-Cannes and Kingdom Come, Ballard seemed to be writing variations on the same novel. But it's a novel I love and will keep reading in its different forms!

The travel writer Charles Prentice goes to the resort of Estrella de Mar because his brother Frank is there in prison having confessed to setting fire that killed five people. Charles is sure his brother is innocent, and tries to prove it. Like Ballard's Running Wild which I have recently finished, this is a mystery of sorts. In fact, it probably fits better into the form than than Running Wild. The basic plot of Cocaine Nights is that a crime has been committed, and a amateur detective takes

Okay, let's look at this: Marc Bolan recorded "Dandy In the Underworld" which had lyrics which referred to 'cocaine nights'...then died in a car crash because his usual Rolls was loaned out to Hawkwind, an offshoot band project of sci-fi author Michael Moorcock, who was friendish with J.G. Ballard who wrote a book - three years earlier - about car crashes and then, you know, this book twenty years later.

The argument goes: society is falling apart, and the only thing which can rebuild it is crime. Crime wakes people up and ignites community spirit when it's committed against them. When it's committed by them, it binds them together, and communities are solidified for good. "Crime and creativity go together, and always have done. The greater the sense of crime, the greater the civic awareness and richer the civilisation." Examples given are Shakespeare's London and Medici Florence, where