I've read Whatever, Atomized/TEP, Submission, Platform and one other book I cant recall the name of. I think I have Lanzarote and Interventions left. And that untranslated french one beginning with A.
I have enjoyed this cute twinks writings but i don't understand why he is so popular. i feel like i could write this shit, and i CANT WRITE. i looked on le reddit, on /r/menwritingwomen, and they're right. he writes women like shit.
some redscare prick said he's a 'romantic larping as a nihilist'.. spot on. Again, Red scare lad hit the nail on the head: Ghislaine-butt gf gets murdered by islamists but the whole book focuses on unimportant shite.
i am a male islamophobe and i like to frick women and i guess id pay for prostitutes if i were so inclined.
how is this french cute twink so famous?
I guess I'm just am amazing writer and I've never realized it, it's so beneath me.
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post isn't wrong though, it's really not that deep
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All this time I thought
your name was a play on Hollaback Girl 
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owellbec.
basically silent w
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Houllebecq is dogpilled
!incels
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I aint no Houellebecq girl
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You didn't read it
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learning french is a waste of time. its only spoken by 30m white french and 500m BIPOCs with nothing to say.
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!jannies
Chud snitch (not the french part lol, the other part)
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BIPOC simp
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If you keep ceding ground you'll eventually be forced to communicate in pidgin
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#accelerate
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Whatever and The Elementary Particles were his earliest works and his only seriously intellectual and expressive works. Lanzarote was a massive dud and p-do apologia. After Lanzarote was a failure and Houellebecq realized he couldn't replicate the honesty and meaningfulness of his early work he started picking various semi-political perspectives and spinning out decent books from them. The only partial exception to this has been The Possibility of an Island where Houllebecq tries to create a more drastic version of The Elementary Particles but loses character relatability in the more drastic rehash. I'm excited for the untranslated one, it has the promise to be a more personal account about his experience in old age as his best work was really about his failure to thrive in youth.
I love everything Houllebecq has written but nothing compares to Whatever and The Elementary Particles and Houllebecq should not be characterized too much by his later work. If anything, Houllebecq is to Nietzscheanism what agnosticism is to religious faith.
Houellebecq's prose is not overly complex. especially in translation. It does flow well and has amazing delivery of his dry humor. I think Houellebecq writes and edits passages in the same way that many people do but he has clearly put massive effort into the quality of his writing and into each book he has published (except Lanzarote). One can also argue that normal writing helps him satirize the lives of average people .
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are any of these books actually worth reading
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it depends what else you're going to do. I would recommend them because they're funny and sexy and the words of a perverted frenchman. if you actually want to read something else, don't bother with MH. but if you're struggling between reading and gooning, read MH.
I like him, but I can't recommend him, truly. I've spent a lot of time slogging through shit that should never have been printed. houellebecq is fine.
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Snapshots:
/r/menwritingwomen:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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