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10766951 No.10766951 [Reply] [Original]

Can we talk about this book?

At only 30,000 pages long, Houellebecq managed to write a "cult classic" which sold at least 20k copies in France largely as a result of word of mouth.

Why do you think the book succeeds?

>> No.10766952

English title sil vu plais

>> No.10766959

>>10766951
>Why do you think the book succeeds?

Obviously because it gave words to what everyone else was experiencing but no one had the balls to say it.

>> No.10766966

Where do I start with Houellebecq?

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>> No.10766969

>30,000 pages

holy shit!!11!

>> No.10766971

Idk if I've read 30,000 pages of novels in my entire life.

I could never see this read being worth it considering the amount of books I could otherwise read

>> No.10766978

This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. This is what it looks down on: poverty, meanness, early death, a bad name. This is what it finds bitter: a life that knows no rest, a mouth that gets no rich food, no fine clothes for the body, no beautiful sights for the eye, no sweet sounds for the ear.

People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid - this is a stupid way to treat the body. People who are rich wear themselves out rushing around on business, piling up more wealth than they could ever use - this is a superficial way to treat the body. People who are eminent spend night and day scheming and wondering if they are doing right - this is a shoddy way to treat the body. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long while, till he's dull and doddering, then he has spent that much time worrying instead of dying, a bitter lot indeed! This is a callous way to treat the body.

>> No.10766980

>>10766959
>Obviously because it gave words to what everyone else was experiencing but no one had the balls to say it.
if this is true. they would hate this book. must be other thing.

>> No.10766992

>>10766951

I want to see Houellebecq and Krasznahorkai team up on a novel together. It would be amazing on all sorts of levels. Just imagine the amount of utter despair it would contain.

>> No.10766994

>>10766951
>Why do you think the book succeeds?
because its honest

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>>10766992
>you unironically want a good writer like Krasznahorkai creatively shackled to some shitty french hack

>> No.10767008

>cult classic
Says who?

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Why don't you have the guts to start a novel like this /lit/?

>> No.10767014

>>10766951
The novel tells the story of a depressed and isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.

I would LOVE to be "stuck" in a tedious well-paying job. Cuntface.

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>>10767010
>the guts
Very cool my fellow over 18 friend.

>> No.10767086

>>10766951
>30 000 pages
so this is the power of nihilism...

>> No.10767091

>>10766980
Who are they? Because people did hate the book, Houellebecq was basically exiled to Ireland for his work

>> No.10767265 [DELETED] 

>>10767010
Reads like Bukowski

>> No.10768440

>>10766952
whatever

>> No.10768460

>>10768440
Whatever is not 30,000 pages long.

>> No.10768463

Does anyone actually want to talk about the book in a relatively serious manner?

I just re-read it and there is so much sublety to H's writing, despite the claims that he's just a plain misogynstic racist asshole (which he probably is, but his writing is far more nuanced).

In fact, if someone asked me to sum up Houellebecq's works with a short sentence, I'd say:

"Sex addicts make poor drivers"

>> No.10768465

>>10767010
Quite catching desu. I wanna know more about the mini skirt and the dialogue between the two ugly girls.

>> No.10768470

>>10766966
Start with whatever, then proceed chronologically with his novels, then onto his essays.

>> No.10768482

>>10767010

Life is too short to read boring, middle-brow crap like this.

>> No.10768505

>>10768482

t.roastie

>> No.10768550

>>10768465
They say it's her right to wear it.

Then Houellebecq writes a poem from the perspective of feminists about how shaving their legs, growing their armpit hair, dressing like sluts etc has nothing to do with men.

Then he dreams about his boss at work being seduced by the girl in the miniskirt.

Then he throws up and hides the vomit under some pillows.

>> No.10768699

>>10768482
this

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>30,000 pages
Holy shit

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>>10768482
>>10768699
Yet you browse here

>> No.10768785

>>10766951
More books like this?
I like books where sexualization ecc. is lived as desecration.
Maybe something more specific about the pornographicization of pop culture

>> No.10768813

>>10768785
Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda

>> No.10768880

>>10768785
The rest of his writings man

>> No.10768983

>>10768550
kek i have to read this book

>> No.10769287

>>10768719
I haven't read it but I imagine it's 30000 words, I hope this is bait