opinions on Michel Houellebecq?
favorite book by him?

>>24500343 (OP)
He’s a hack. There’s no intellectual value in blackpilled navel gazing.

>>24500343 (OP)
I refuse to believe this man has ever gotten pussy without paying for it.

>>24500353
>famous french writer
you'd be surprised

>>24500361
>Hideous dudes get TONS of cat because they're WRITERS!!!
Book nerd cope.

>>24500366
fame is a self-affirming force. it's alien to autists but most people think "he's famous so there must be reason for him to be famous, people cannot be wrong! and even if they are, he's still famous so I will get some of that fame by being near him!" this is something women especially latch on to.

>>24500371
>Dude, he TOTALLY gets pussy!! 24/7 365!

>>24500382
why are you so obsessed with a writer's personal life anyways? do you get any yourself?

>>24500343 (OP)
When I read his books, it feels like chatting with a long-lost friend. Will certainly re-read.

>>24500343 (OP)
Like him a lot. Did only read Submission and Elementary Particles now. Elementary Particles was great. I tried reading non-fiction (In the presence of Schopenhauer) from him but that wasn't really all that. Dropped it pretty fast. But his fictions work are great and I definitely plan on reading more form him.

>>24500408
read The Map and the Territory and The Possibility of an Island now!

>>24500421
The protagonists's dialogue with his father in the kitchen from The Map and the Territory touched me.

t. >>24500395

>>24500421
Possibility of an island has been on my reading list for a few weeks now. Will probably reading it if my work life is calming down more.
Is there any order to read them in? Should I read Map and Territory first?

>>24500435
>Is there any order to read them in? Should I read Map and Territory first?
whichever you prefer, works either way

>>24500343 (OP)
Serotonin

>>24500353
>I refuse to believe this man has ever gotten pussy without paying for it.
GRRM gets laid more than you, anon. That's why he doesn't even feel the need to finish his series.

bump

>>24500343 (OP)
I have only read Elementary Particles and it absolutely devastated me. I have Platform as well but haven't read it yet. I have a book of his poems in French that i'm trying to decipher kek. Island seems interesting.

I've read Serotonin and Elementary Particles.
Preferred Serotonin by a lot.

>>24501048
is that the one with bestiality?

>>24501049
Only a short piece at the start.
Serotonin was much less sexual, something that got tiring very fast in EP. Bruno was not a very entertaining character to read about.

>>24501039
>>24501048
see >>24500421

>>24501064
>Houellebecq declared that the main themes of the novel were "aging, the relationship between father and son and the representation of reality through art
Sounds interesting, I'll give The Map a go

bump

>>24500343 (OP)
If you imagine him bald, you'll realise he looks like Der Coomer guy

That's an unfortunate hairline. Fin+min would've helped him a lot.

>>24501547
Doesn't that kill your libido? I don't think he would appreciate that?

>>24500343 (OP)
won't read someone that looks like that
simple as

>>24500343 (OP)
elemtary particles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig

>>24501588
your loss

>>24500343 (OP)
What the fuck does this little frog goblin even write about? Most of titles ITT sound like off the wall schizophrenic shit.

>>24502857
illiterate scum

>>24500343 (OP)
Meh.

>>24502864
>>>Most stories are about murdering women who turned the MC down and starting an overseas sex tourism business and le depression

Sooo... Incel shit, gotcha.

>>24502875
it's just one book and even then you didn't get the story right

>>24502878
I literally just quoted the synopsis of THREE of his fucking novels, LMFAO

>>24500353
>>24500382
He had a kid at 25, used to be a swinger and is married to a woman 34 years his junior who wrote her thesis on him. He even had sex with her on camera as part of that leaked porn controversy. Now that may not be the sex life that you wish you had but unless your a terminally online incel almost anyone can get a girlfriend. It’s just that only chads get stacies. Your problems are a lack of social skills and extreme introversion, possibly also problematic porn use.

>>24502882
weak bait

>>24502889
>Starts projecting
I've had sex, incel.

>>24500353
I mean, he wasn't THAT bad looking when he was younger. But I think the frog genes, combined with the smoking addiction and being angry all the time may have lead to him looking like a disgusting little goblin now.

bret easton ellis is a huge fan of him

>>24502899
Who?

>>24502901
the writer of American Psycho and Less Than Zero

>>24502905
>American Psycho
4channer meme trash

>>24500343 (OP)
This motherfucker is the very thing I imagine someone reads when I picture pretentious literati beatnik faggot in a coffee house wearing a beret beating banjos and snapping fingers while reciting """poetry"""

>>24502899
Houellebecq likes him too, he references him in Lanzarote

>>24502937
nice

>>24500353
He's 69, he'd look like normal old man if he shaved off the copeover

>>24502986
>69
such a cool age

>>24500343 (OP)
Based.

Big fan.