This is the best best book ever written. No writer before Houellebecq

Funny to catch this thread now, I watched the movie just last night.

It's a straight shoot in the feels, though. Be advised.

>>9052326
>the movie

lel pleb

>>9052314
bland. pleb detected

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Working as a software developer about the same age as the narrator, havent lost my marbles yet though. This is a good one too

>>9052353
great book

>>9052314
It's a pretty good description of what being fucking a while male in the contemporary world is like.

>>9052376
Stop drinking now and go to sleep, anon.

I thought the elementary particles was a class apart. That entire section in the school had me crying of laughter in public.

Whatever, elementary particles, and my twisted world are the perfect r9k reading list.

Fuck lit and its desire to stick its head in the sand and pretend women don't live lives on easy mode and fuck tonnes of Chads ton tinder everyday while 80 % of males get almost no sex

>>9052395
I'm five days sober to be honest.

>>9052353
>tfw Taipei is the 21st century's Journey to the End of the Night

>>9052314
Is there a good translation? Or should I try to read it in French?

>>9052350
nod an argument

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>>9052493
That is the only English translation and it's pretty darn good. Hollaback Girl isn't a man of flowery prose his style is rather plain which translates well.

>>9052419
Read Platform for sleazy amounts of the sex.
It's pretty much elementary particles 2, sexy bugaloo.

I love Houellebecq but this is really his worst

>>9052314

try Kant, bitch

>>9052314
Elementary particles is wayyyyyy better.

>"Whatever"
Really? That's the English title? Holy shit even the German translation got that better, with "Expansion of the Combat Zone".

>>9052662
Erzürnter Michel *g*

>>9052689
Mach den Kopp zu, Junge.

>>9052721
Saug dem Nächstbestem Hassan den Schwanz (;

>>9052419
>Fuck lit and its desire to..
Fuck all the evidence, my small bubble of robots circlejerk is the truth, the truth I tell you!

>>9052419
Do you really think Houllebecq has ever suggested that? The point is that everyone loses and is unhappy when sexuality is commodified.

>>9052424
Shut up Tao

It's a great book. It reminds me of Bill Hicks's comedy in that it doesn't really give a fuck about the reader being happy or entertained. It's just pure expression.

>>9053734
His problem is that it doesn't change anything if sex is stratified and categorized.

Sex has always been tied to personality, wealth and social status.

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>>9052314

>This is the best best book ever written.

I resent you and your obvious youth. Lucky young moron.

>>9052419
>section in the school

Remind me what happened please? I just remember Bruno jerking off on the train.

The funniest part for me is when Bruno writes the racist manifesto all night and has a hard-on the entire time.

Saddest part is Michel's childhood sweetheart getting cancer and him burying her in a garden or something.

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How could you go from THIS

>>9052419
Once you lose your virginity (it will happen anon, i believe in you) you will realize sex is boring and overrated. Getting laid isn't really that hard, but it's still not worth the effort.

>babby's first existential novel

Read more books.

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>>9054300
to THIS?

>>9054447
The fact is the desire for sexual intercourse is perhaps the most strident, ineradicable urges there is. People can easily get over the need for social status, even hunger can be ignored over time. But the erotic urge never dissipates, and as a result if causes untold misery and very little comparable joy.

>>9054504
>>9054504
Pretty sure if i dont eat i die while if i dont get laid i can still rub my willy

>>9054477
Nihilism, not even once.

>>9054477
i want to protect tsukihi-chan

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>>9054300
to THIS?

The possibility of an island was awesome. It got me thinking of no country for old men. The idea that with every new generation new mores come and one must adapt to survive or otherwise face existential despair. In no country the idea was explored through chaos and violence, the possibility used love and sex. The whole scene of his girlfriend's 2 day party didn't really affect me the way it did the narrator but I suppose that was exactly what Houellebecq was expressing. In my view the narrator was a fool for falling in love with that girl when she was so vapid. Walking in on her getting cock slapped on the nose should have been expected. Again though, this detachment I feel is probably exactly what was being criticized. Should we feel remorse for this? I can't say that I agree. I'm not trying to be edgy and say that love doesn't exist or so what to the fact that we've diminished it, but that it had to be expected for the concept of love to change with time. It's been long due for a revision. I can't say I know where this detachment between love and sex will lead to. I'm only in my 20s. But I definitely do not have the same fear Houellebecq does

>>9055039
Islam invasion of your homeland

>>9054300
>>9054477
i wish i knew

>>9055414
fair enough

>>9054300
to this

https://youtu.be/m8tmCQUURiY

>>9057962
kek, what the fuck

>>9057962
Source behind the video pls? Why is Houellebecq dancing like he's on ecstasy while dressed in biker's gear?

>>9059513
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3800012/

>>9057962
Hey man pretty cool that he's out there doing something new for him

>>9060276
Forgot to drop link https://youtu.be/greF9wLQeBI

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''Bien entendu. C'est foutu depuis longtemps, depuis l'origine. Tu ne représenteras jamais, Raphaël, un rêve érotique de jeune fille. Il faut en prendre ton parti ; de telles choses ne sont pas pour toi.
De toute façon, il est déjà trop tard. L'insuccès sexuel, Raphaël, que tu as connu depuis ton adolescence, la frustration qui te poursuit depuis l'âge de treize ans laisseront en toi une trace ineffaçable.
À supposer même que tu puisses dorénavant avoir des femmes - ce que, très franchement, je ne crois pas - cela ne suffira pas ; plus rien ne suffira jamais. Tu resteras toujours orphelin de ces amours adolescentes que tu n'as pas connues.
En toi, la blessure est déjà douloureuse ; elle le deviendra de plus en plus. Une amertume atroce, sans rémission, finira par emplir ton coeur. Il n'y aura pour toi ni rédemption, ni délivrance. C'est ainsi.''

>>9060142
Haha, thanks. Houellebecq seems like a really cool dude.

>>9052353
One of my few 5/5/ on shitreads.org

I'm French and even here most people don't get him. Media sell him as some kind of reactionary while he comes from a communist background.

And seeing the titles picked by translators it's clear he's not understood abroad either.

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>>9060732

>I'm French

>>9054504

not entirely true
It is absolutely possible to dissipate it and re-route it into other endavours. (like Buddhist monks do)

The problem is - it's dehumanizing to do so.

>>9060771
Few people have the kind of willpower necessary to become a monk or a priest. Even among them, many ultimately fold, sometimes doing horrible things.

>>9060732
>look up original title
>"Extension du domaine de la lutte"

wtf, they didn't even try to give it a similar title

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>>9060320
>csq j'aime pas les robots mais je sens triste quand je lis cette passage

>>9060784
They could at least have tried to keep the Marxist reference.

>>9054504
Eliott i thought you were dead

>>9052314
Neckbearded /lit/fags enjoy Houellbecq because he confirms their isolation-distorted worldviews

>>9060994
You've never read him have you? He merely depicts people in an unfavorable light. We all have this ugly side to us. Why pretend like we're some noble Snowflake? Also all his characters tend to be hopeless romantics that simply confuse sex with love

>>9060994
Nice attempt at separating yourself from the isolation-distorted worldviews but we both know you're one of us.