ITT: /I-can't-believe-i-once-liked-him-core/

ITT: /I-can't-believe-i-once-liked-him-core/

What made you fall out with Houellebecq?

Ugh, his islamophobia

think he applied to all of /mu/

I still agree with some of what he said though

the last of the french moralists. Half of his work is crap, tho

Bro, Platform, about how Islam was never gonna let the West live in peace with their liberal values, was published two and a half weeks before 9/11. Submission, about how the West will warm to Islam once it occurs to them how appealing their ideas about the subservience of women is, should not be taken lightly either. Houellebecq is one of the few contemporary writers worth taking seriously.

Chuck Palahniuk

>Houellebecq is one of the few contemporary writers worth taking seriously.
read more, f.am

He's cancer on social media. The Selfish gene was his only worthwhile book because
>memes

I read Submission a year ago and did a little research reading his interviews. I dont think he hates islam as a whole, he just writes about the decadence of the liberal french society.

Maybe he changed his mind over the last months? I dont know.

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he's shit now but his books on evolution are still great science writing.

Dawkins memes is just a shithouse version of jung's collective unconscious

This. Say whatever you want, overcucked liberal zealots, but Houellebecq's "fairy tales" are way more in touch with reality than whatever you stand for.

Yeah I don't dispute that. But lately it's just been about curing religion and aborting downs syndrom babies.

>Islamophobia
>falling for this meme pushed by the media and the hypocritical liberals
You should read pic related.

>falling for an obvious baitpost
The 'ugh' should've tipped you off

bait

>le_master_ruseman.jpeg

He never was good looking but boy did he age.

>Smoke like a chimney.

JUST

comparing to this photo, he used to look smoking hot

aw shet

Hence comes the four-legged friendships of so many of the better kind of men, for on what indeed should one refresh oneself from the endless deceit, falseness, and cunning of men if it were not for the dogs into whose faithful countenance one may look without distrust? - Schopenhauer

pic related

Greatest Gauloises ad of our times.

@8323937

(You)

Explain yourself now or forever hold your peace.

Nobody can ignore his talent of picking sujets and creating scenarios that are essentially important for our time. If you don't like his style it's okay, but his art is needed really bad.

that dog died

This. And Christopher Hitchens. The overly vitriolic approach just gets tiring.

Do you want to know how I know this post isn't serious?

>being a Naziphobe

>Ugh,
stopped reading right there desu

Hitchens got real boring real quick on atheism because there's ultimately only so many ways you can say 'yo this shit so dumb.' But I never tires of his political and literary opinions. Nothing he did on that front was ever boring.

What I hate about Hitchens is not how much I hate his late style but how much I love his early style.

I wonder if I'll go through a similar transformation.

...

>every time I take a girl home I show them my book shelf
>indicate Houellebecq and wait for them to get upset so I can argue with them
>despite all of the outrage none of them seem to know who he is
>end up having sex with them instead
>feel even more disconnected with the world

wow you're so bohemian, do go on

>He actually read a book written by Charb
Je suis Charlie xD
Kill yourself

Thanks. Do you want to coordinate with me on my upcoming objectivist children's book? I need somebody to do the illustrations. Woodcut experience is required.

I have woodcutting experience

I used to like DFW but then I found out he admitted to being a fraud.

Bernhard

I used to like DFW then I read one of his short stories.

though it was hard science

this is your body on nihilism

I used to like DFW when I watched his interviews, then, I read his work.

I used to like DFW because Veeky Forums like it then Veeky Forums didn't anymore.

god what a fucking hack

smug french motherfucker

Timothy Leary, for me. not for his ideas themselves, but their presentations. also his character