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Wtf is his problem?

>>20400666

First time reading Houellebecq eh? At some point you have to realize houellebecqs view of the word is an extreme one. He let's you into his world and explore it for a bit. If you make the choice to stay in it you probably should just kill yourself.

What's with all the useless smut and graphic sexual descriptions? It's borderline cringe at times. Like in serotonin where he dedicates 2 whole pages to a 10 year old girl sucking some 50 year old dude off.

Idk man, it's weird. Adds nothing to the story or character development.

>>19784515
>Michel Houellebecq novel did you like the most
Atomized
>why?
because of the blacked cuck scene and the bbc rant

>>19753460
didn't say its his fantasy, just said it contains cuck shit and for some reason its a black and he had to make a point of him having a giant cock.

>>19611286
Houellebecq is the only modern author I'm aware of that seems to be worth reading.

Wtf is his problem?

>>19016393
>right wing
>literature
best I can do is BBC novels

*yawn* Another overrated writer.

You like him because women and progressives don’t like him. Admit it.

What is his fucking problem?

* Michel Houellebecq: computer programmer
* Thomas Pynchon: technical writer for Boeing
* Don DeLillo: copywriter at an advertising agency
* Salman Rushdie: copywriter at an advertising agency
* William Gaddis: fact-checker, freelance writer for various corporations
* Jonathan Franzen: research assistant atHarvard tracking earthquake activity
* Kazuo Ishiguro: worked at a homeless charity
* Karl Ove Knausgård: taught high school, sold cassettes, worked at a psychiatric hospital and on an oil platform
* Edward P. Jones: proofreader
* Joan Didion: copywriter and editor for Vogue magazine
* George Saunders: technical writer and geophysical engineer
* Helen DeWitt: dictionary text tagger, copytaker, Dunkin’ Donuts employee, legal secretary, and working at a laundry service
* Roberto Bolaño: dishwasher, campground custodian, bellhop, garbage collector, and other low-paying jobs
* Hilary Mantel: social worker and store assistant
* Sally Rooney: admin job in a restaurant
* Peter Carey: advertising copywriter and various other odd jobs
* Norman Rush: book dealer, teacher, co-director of Peace Corps in Botswana
* António Lobo Antunes: psychiatrist
* Cormac McCarthy: worked part-time at an auto-parts warehouse
* Gerald Murnane: primary school teacher, editor in a government office, bartender
* Haruki Murakami: jazz bar owner
* Aleksandar Hemon: Greenpeace canvasser, sandwich assembly-line worker, bike messenger, graduate student in English literature, bookstore salesperson, andESL teacher

Wee

Will Houellebecq be remembered?

Submission was good, but not profound. Seritonin was a flop. He hasn't written anything good since 2010. Will he have a place in literary history?