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Oh Mister Houellebecq, where have you been all my life

>> No.13659540

>>13659530
How did he get away with writing women as the bad guys?

>> No.13659560

>>13659540
That makes the book extremely more comical now that a think about it, and from what I’ve read so far (I’m on chapter 10) and this book runs deep, I can relate.

>> No.13660887

>>13659530
Who does one read after Houellebecq?

>> No.13660919

>>13659560
Relate to Bruno or Michel?

>>13660887
Zorn

>> No.13660989
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>Looking at Goodread reviews
>Girls don't like the book very much

>> No.13661064

>>13660989
Good, that's a good reason I might read it in the future.

>> No.13661202

>>13659530
>buying physical books in 2019

Why????

>> No.13661251

>>13660989
It's a general rule that if Reddit and women dislike a book there's a higher chance that it's good than if they like it.

>> No.13661301
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>Bruno nursing a bottle of bourbon while his son watches tv in the other room

>Bruno eating his way through college when he finds himself in the exact same place as high school

>Bruno reading Kafka cause he can't fuck

I think we're really an easy type to figure out, but somehow no one before Houllebecq had been able to condense the downward trajectory of mediocre men so effectively

>> No.13661319

My sex life dramatically improved after I got my gf to read Houellebecq and she got me to read Donna Tartt.

>> No.13661355

Any contemporary authors who are as based as him?

>> No.13661403

Any other non-/pol/ack anons love Houellebecq, or are all of you reactionary incels?

>> No.13661425

>>13661403
Fuck off, whore

>> No.13661431

>>13661403
dilate

>> No.13661447

>>13661425
Pretty much all of his characters are whores. What's your point?

>> No.13661474

>>13659530

He saw it happening.

>>13660919
Michel. More Michel every day.

>> No.13661623

>>13660919
Both, without having gotten beat up in childhood, I was a pussy, now I’m a recluse who takes reading and the intellectual pursuit of knowledge seriously, I’ve had female companions though

>> No.13661628

>>13660989
That means it’s a good book, saying this makes me a Based retard and I accept that.

>> No.13661631

>>13661202
>Ignoring the uprise of technological degeneracy
>Using a kindle

>> No.13661639

>>13661355
Nope

>> No.13661762

>>13659530
Apparently this is a terrible translation? Any French readers here to confirm this?

>> No.13661806

>>13661762
It's only bad because Frenchies are stuck-up arrogant frogs who think that theirs is the language of God Himself which can never be translated into any other tongue without butchering it. It's fine, really.

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>>13661806
>who think that theirs is the language of God Himself which can never be translated into any other tongue without butchering it

In this, they are correct.

>> No.13661827

>>13659530
Not gonna lie, this book made me hate manwhores more than it made me dislike women.

>> No.13661881

is the girl on the cover a Houellebecq girl?
>*cues up Gwen Stefani’s 2005 Grammy-nominated smash hit*

>> No.13662265

>>13660919
Who?

>> No.13663021

>>13662265
Bump

And fuck off cunt

>> No.13663031

>>13663021
I just wanted to know who the writer he suggested I read was.

>> No.13663042

>>13661251
Reddit hated is a good heuristic for finding great things. Redditors are just such huge beta cucks it’s unbelievable

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>> No.13663085

>>13663071
Alright, it’s confirmed, the book is a masterpiece.

>> No.13663086
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13663086

>>13663071

>> No.13663096

>>13663086
This makes me uncomfortably happy

>> No.13663100

>>13663086
>females that are nothing but vessels for male necessities and whims.

Imagine believing otherwise

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Bumping for this man

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiTRFE2_7w

>> No.13664148

>>13661403

I'm a leftist and i love Houellebecq

>> No.13664153
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13664153

the fact that I don't receive disability benefits for being short is a moral outrage

>> No.13664161

>>13664148
Being a reactionary incel and a leftist are not mutually exclusive

>> No.13664200

>>13664153
Once again manlets are BTFO, lmao

>> No.13664219

>>13664200
>rich, handsome, smart, French
>"I never could bring myself to kiss him"
the suffering is unending

>> No.13664304

>>13664219
You forgot: short.

>> No.13664402

>>13664153
>(though, of course, way too short)
Literally on the second line. Holy kek

>> No.13664826

>>13661319
Your girlfriend can read?

>> No.13664960

>>13663086
SEETHING

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>>13664153
>he hated Muslims and niggers
>implying that's a bad thing

>> No.13665423

>>13664153
The guy seems alright.
>no manlet high-earning but still wagecuck drinking buddy to complain about Algerians

>> No.13665532

>>13660887
Céline