by Michel Houellebecq
Not recommended for optimists, prudes, and sane people in general.
An enthralling, thought-provoking book. The best thing I've read in a while.
This is the second Houellebecq novel that I have read. Usually when I talk about why I like novels it usually has to do with the great characters that I identified with or the amazing plot or the entertaining action. Houellebecq provides none of these things. In fact, while I was reading this boo...
I don't remember anything about this book other than that I bought it, tried three times to read it, and each time lost interest and left it sitting on the dresser for months. Perhaps I would enjoy it if I tried again, but how many chances does a book get?
Another author in that very French intellectual tradition which seems to confuse being cynical with being profound. The basic thesis is that humans are risible and worthy of our hatred, and that interpersonal relationships are a despicable delusion. Some of this is illustrated with neatly-done set...
You can interpret this book in several different ways. A lot of people view it as a depressing, hate-filled rant, filled with a really startling amount of unpleasant sex. I'm not saying that that's necessarily incorrect. In fact, my immediate association was with the fictitious books that Moreland i...
Do your self a favour and burn this book.If you're not clinically depressed now, you will be out of sheer boredom from reading this.The author seems to have issues with his parents, namely his mother, who much like the one in this book, dumped him at a young age with his grandmother to go gallivanti...
This book has made me laugh. It's not a compliment.Every character here is monodimensional and unrealistic, while the story itself is quite ridicolous. And after the tenth masturbation scene filled with philosophical rubbish and Andre Gide quotes I've felt a big nausea coming up. There are many nove...
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