Whatever
by:
Toby Litt (author)
Paul Hammond (author)
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."—Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."—The Washington PostJust thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and...
show more
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."—Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."—The Washington PostJust thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.Michel Houellebecq is a multi-award-winning French author. He currently lives in Spain.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846687846 (1846687845)
Publish date: June 28th 2011
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Pages no: 156
Edition language: English
The English translation disappoints me starting from the title 'Whatever' which no doubt gets some people to pick the book up I'm sure but it means nothing in relation to the novel. This is a depressingly familiar mirror of live and society which is nice to read when you feel disappoint waking up ev...
I am done and very glad, that it's over.What a bad, bad book. The protagonist is a sexist, pretentious prick, whose rambling is above all EXTREMELY BORING.I don't see anything remotely good about this book and will not ever again read something by this author.
This isn't a bad book, it just isn't for me at this time. I really don't need a book that leaves me more depressed than when I began it.
Il se peut, sympathique ami lecteur, que vous soyez vous-même une femme. Ne vous en faites pas, ce sont des choses qui arrivent. D'ailleurs ça ne modifie en rien ce que j'ai à vous dire. Je ratisse large.Pauvre Bernard, dans un sens. Qu'est-ce qu'il peut bien faire de sa vie? Acheter des disques las...