Hi, I found your blog through geology but it’s nice to learn you read Houellebeq. Extension du domaine de la lutte is the first book of his that I read and for years afterwards I didn’t read any. I agree it’s not good. Only recently I picked up Soumission and then I couldn’t stop, I am reading Aneantir now and then there won’t be anything left that the guy wrote for me to read. It seems to me that all his later books are “solutions” to the problem stated in his first one: sex tourism in Plateforme, making sexless humans in Les particules elementaires and in La possibilité d’un île, antidepressants in Serotonine, Islam in Soumission, and art (maybe?) in La carte el le territoire. Or maybe in this one he just needed to write something more appealing to a wider audience and in fact he won the Prix Goncourt with it, so it’s a bit atypical. At any rate, great stuff
Thanks for reading. I think that's right about his various solutions. I'm saving Anéantir for when I really need it, just in case it really is his last one as he claimed.
Hi, I found your blog through geology but it’s nice to learn you read Houellebeq. Extension du domaine de la lutte is the first book of his that I read and for years afterwards I didn’t read any. I agree it’s not good. Only recently I picked up Soumission and then I couldn’t stop, I am reading Aneantir now and then there won’t be anything left that the guy wrote for me to read. It seems to me that all his later books are “solutions” to the problem stated in his first one: sex tourism in Plateforme, making sexless humans in Les particules elementaires and in La possibilité d’un île, antidepressants in Serotonine, Islam in Soumission, and art (maybe?) in La carte el le territoire. Or maybe in this one he just needed to write something more appealing to a wider audience and in fact he won the Prix Goncourt with it, so it’s a bit atypical. At any rate, great stuff
Thanks for reading. I think that's right about his various solutions. I'm saving Anéantir for when I really need it, just in case it really is his last one as he claimed.