Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Do Yourself a Favour

. . . and read Billenium, by J.G. Ballard, the guy who wrote Empire Of The Sun and lots of other stuff.

This is possibly the worst-spelled-title-that-got-missed-on-Earth. Although "Billenium" is an invented word, it should follow the spelling conventions of "millennium" with a double "n" (Don't worry, even I have problems with these obschure schpellings).

There are some things I can't read. Metaphysics. Stuff by lunatics, like William Burroughs. Literary crap by people like V.S. Naipaul.

But you owe it to yourself to try to track down a copy of Billenium. It's like travelling into a nightmare, but with a lunatic as your pilot.

Highly recommended.

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