I love J.G. Ballard.
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J.G. Ballard: Kingdom Come
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags book-reviews, books, Crash, David Cronenberg, Empire of the Sun, Fiction, Five Books, J.G. Ballard, Jeff Buckley, Joyce Carey, Kingdom Come, Marquis de Sade, reading, Robert Plant, Running Wild, Steven Spielberg, The Atrocity Exhibition, writing on June 5, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle
Venus in Furs
Posted in Reading with tags Goethe, homosexuality, Jane Austen, Justine, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Marquis de Sade, Pride and Prejudice, Story of O, Venus in Furs on April 21, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“In life, one must be the hammer or the anvil.”
– Goethe, as quoted in Venus in Furs.
I am convinced that Pride and Prejudice should be on the reading list of every teen-aged boy. I loved the book when I read it; I thought to myself, ‘I should have read this twenty years ago! This explains exactly what’s wrong with them!’
I have recently read Venus in Furs and this book should also be added to the adolescent male list of required reading. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 