Just finished this, my first Houellebecq novel. Brutal book. Houellebecq creates a bleak but accurate description of what the rotting corpse of the West looks like post-sexual revolution. The ending was a bit strange, I'm not sure what I think about it yet. The only major drawback is that at times it's way too pornographic; that could've been completely left out and it wouldn't have hampered the story.
>>24118998>rotting corpseLmao did we read the same book? I didn't have that take at all.
the fact that you regard any portion of this book as pornographic says a lot. houellebecq is another case of a deeply sentimental man who is concerned with the existence of love next to the infinite degradations life and cruelty can perform on the body
>>24118998In the times of darkness the World desperately needs another Wellbeckq thread
>>24118998>frenchman drives around europe trying to cumno thx
I am starting to see a positive change on this board, just a few years ago everyone would queue to suck his cock irl because he wrote yet another book that is just >>24119829 or >>>24118841
Fucking americans get outta here with your puritanism. The fucking conceit that when sex can be left out without hampering the story, then it should be, get a fucking grip man. It is a normal and important part of life (though it may not be of yours LMAO).
>>24120083It is never normal in his books, half of his characters are coomers
>>24120096No they are just French. Most burgers don't realize this but the extreme levels of guilt and weirdness about sex are really an American phenomenon that sets them apart from the rest of western culture.
>>24119975This place is positively dead.
