The tenderest part of my heart is reserved for this chud.I've read Whatever, Elementary Particles, and Platform (I'd also rank them in that order, if I had to) What do you think of him?
How does this utterly hideous fucking goblin get so much pussy?
>>25640500if i was stuck in an airport lounge for a delayed flight, i would pick one of his books before a Stephen King book ............. marginally. airport fodder
>>25640526I mean he is a successful writer, so that automatically makes him very attractive status wise. I wouldn't say he get's so much, but that's mainly cause of his depression
I love SubmissionI had already been studying French for a year before I read Submission but I didn't really care about France or French culture much, I simply chose French because it seemed like the best value language to learn besides English for literatureWell Submission turned me into a francophile
>>25640500I first read Submission and I thought it was a great time capsule that only contemporary French readers could fully understand but a poor novel.Then I read Whatever and I thought it was awesome, and thought back on Submission and started understanding the point of it all better and gained a new appreciation for it. Don't start with Submission, that is all. I shall read the Elementary Particles next.
>>25640500never read houellebecq in my life because ... what's an ugly person doing writing about sexuality?
>>25640526Not fat. Can do art. That's enough.
>>25640541Meh, I can see the case for why someone might really dislike him. HIs writing is very flat, affectless, but I guess that's what you'd expect when misery and boredom are what your novels revolve around. I did find Platform difficult to get through at times. I assume a plot revolving around the hotel industry is difficult to make interesting, but his commentary on sexlessness just didn't hit the same. I've only read Pet Cemetery and that was in middle school. I remember it being far more dookie than any of Houellebecq, so I must disagree with you on the "marginally" claim.
>>25640545I've been trying to learn French. I think I'll have a go at trying to read one of his novels in it, should make learning the language more enjoyable.
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>>25640549T R U K ERUKE
>>25640549kys
>>25640526He got consoomed by society itself. From the foid perspective, they want to be different, they like wellbeck not because of his novels or his domain system but rather because he was a phenomenal and successful writers. Women loves to attach themselves to a successful and popular thing because they want the taste of it, happened everytim in pop culture, movement, and current trends, such a depressive state of existence, they always want to be different compared to their friends, forever stuck in their 'searching for identity' phase that most boys have dropped by the time they were 18
>>25640615Faggot.
>>25640843I was at a party one time, all grad students there pretty much. The girl pocket was chittering about the sexual conquests of the prettiest girl in their social circle, she was an Irish art hoe who had crawled into the sack with a bunch of different musicians. They were both trying to be transgressive by talking openly about female sexual wantoness and, of course, trying to undermine her and tear her down a bit because she always got the first, best portion of attention from the men they liked.Hey boyfriend was in earshot and was becoming irritated about it. She slipped back into range from wherever it was that she had gone and after a bit, when she didn't put a stop to it he laughed amiably and said "Yeah, she's a real starfucker." Three hearbeats of silence went by while she curled inward in space in an attempt to disappear and as the faces of her friends all hardened and turned towards him, the grad girl brains all loading their cannons.
>>25640920You should right a novel, now. You could be the new Easton ellis.
>>25640550If he wrote the same books but they somehow didn't become popular, no woman would care about him.
>>25640500Would MH make the official /lit/ Ugly Writers chart?<Pic attached> is a suggestion, anyway, for whoever is going to concoct it.. . . To begin with she is magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous. She has a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth, full of uneven teeth and a chin and jaw-bone *qui n’en finessent pas*.~ Henry James, letter to his father, May 10th, 1869 [to be fair he did go on to say that her intellect won him over]
>>25640500I enjoy his novels but hate it when he and other people take them seriously.For example Whatever is great but it's dumb how people try making it about inceldom and worse, its political causes, as if the protagonist didn't have the chance to bang that chick at work but chose not to because she was kinda gross while at the same time philosophizing how sexual liberation is bad because women can also choose not to bang men they think are gross. Why can't it just be about a maladjusted, mentally ill man, that's clearly what he is and it's fine and perfectly relatable. Why force the le society angle?The same for Platform. He's a deranged idiot but endearing in a way, the story is forced as all hell but the ending makes up for it, almost making you wish for it to finally happen. He's obviously a worthless cuck choosing to go out like that instead of, I don't know, even enrolling in the Foreign Legion to exterminate the mudslime brownoids he took pleasure in hearing got pulverized by jews. Why force the le westoid woman FORCES the huwhite man into yellow fever meme as the substrate? Why don't just let subhumans exists with all their fetishes unjustified?Annihilation is cool because it talks about some pretty niche stuff, albeit some things are poorly researched and some scenes are so badly written and just for the shock value, but it becomes utterly unbearable when you know IRL he really is a boomer worshiper, for example. The possibility of an island is pretty good too, a couple of plot holes here and there but nothing too serious. Overall I enjoy the grim outlook and the struggle with the seeming meaningless of life but it's just bullshit when he then like breaks the 4th wall and tries condensing such matters intro trivial slop for a braindead audience.
I have read Whatever, Elementary Particles, Submission, The Possibility of an Island, The Map and the Territory, and Serotonin. I went kind of nuts after reading The Elementary Particles. I was already feeling slightly off and depressed but it had a powerful effect on me that I hadn’t anticipated. Sort of like the stories about young men killing themselves after reading The Sorrows of Young Werther.
>>25640500Hollaback isn't a chud
>>25643390wellbeck
>>25640500Submission is going to go down as the most accurate prediction of French politics put to ink, so I think highly of him
I don't care about who he is but Whatever is one of my favorite things I've read in a long time. Dry ass, matter of fact style. Love it.
Loved Platform, such a cool guyI was stuck, I wasn’t able to read anything then I just randomly picked him up and got back to reading profuselyThanks my goat Houellebecq
>>25643418Do they have any bits in there about France's retarded economy policy and gerontocracy
