My god, this is vile.We have from the 1995 introduction by Ballardto this 1973 novel......I would still like to think that Crash is the first pornographic novel based on technology.Basically this revolves around a group of people that get off sexually around car crashes and the injuries they suffer.As a feat of imagination its is amazing, but that's J G Ballard but many of the scenes are staggering in their baseness. He describes it as pornographic but there is nothing even shallowly exciting about it. Ballard must have been on a retainer for writing " natal cleft", if he was he made a fortune.Vaughn the anti-hero is officially the most repulsive character in fiction, hands down there is no one even close and I would love to accept nominations.An amazing writer but I couldn't wait to finish this. The introduction mentions metaphors that the novel is meant represent but I must be too thick to get any of it.A truly horrible experience