Just finished this. Thoughts?

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Now read Atomised and Platform. If you like them, go for the rest of Houellebecq's novels.

Lanzarote isn't worth your time (even if it's very short).

This is one of the worst posts I've ever seen here.

Agreed. OP doesn't even bother to give her opinion.

Misogynist trash.

OP's thoughts:

self indulgent

funny

prose is mixed, he ends chapters well

The ending is weak, IMO

i just read this, did i just read this?

I heard the prose is butchered in this translation. Remember when he says he's not going to use flowery language a the start and then transpires a load of clunky ass Robert Galbraith / Rowling style shit. I think in French it's way more crude which would have saved it for me, I read this translation and won't be reading anything else of this dudes now.

That's totally unfair and if you think that you're a moron, the whole book's an elaborate send-up of the narrator.

definitly maybe