I've read the first seven chapters. So far it's miles away from Elementary Particles or Extension. His style is more verbose, lacks the polish or wit of earlier works. It's like he's trying to imitate a traditional big novel by Balzac or Thomas Mann, but failing to make it really work.
Strange. I read it in Norwegian and I found parts of it transcendental. Something in the way he writes Paul's epistemic uncertainty about the world around him just really clicked for me.
The "Dan Brown" parts of the book were not great and felt meaningless in the end.
I also mentally called them "Dan Brown" parts, lol. I've only read the first 60 pages, that was just my first impression. I see a lot of potential and will see how it continues. His more philosophical thoughts on uncertainty and the state of the modern world definitely are worth reading.
Have you considered that the "Dan Brown" parts are not meaningless or unsolved, but that he (Houellebecq) is being subtle or not explicit, leaving the reader to connect the dots?
Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten!
Nice cover. What did you find inside?
German semen
It’s a book. Give us a plot summary or something.
Fricking ape.
Inside is the best novel of 2022 🙂
And? Why start a thread and do nothing for it?
Reading Houellebecq in German is cringe
I've read the first seven chapters. So far it's miles away from Elementary Particles or Extension. His style is more verbose, lacks the polish or wit of earlier works. It's like he's trying to imitate a traditional big novel by Balzac or Thomas Mann, but failing to make it really work.
>it's miles away
that means it's better, not worse.
learn to idiom
I thought "A is miles away from B" could mean
A B
or
B A
It's ambigious without further information
Strange. I read it in Norwegian and I found parts of it transcendental. Something in the way he writes Paul's epistemic uncertainty about the world around him just really clicked for me.
The "Dan Brown" parts of the book were not great and felt meaningless in the end.
I also mentally called them "Dan Brown" parts, lol. I've only read the first 60 pages, that was just my first impression. I see a lot of potential and will see how it continues. His more philosophical thoughts on uncertainty and the state of the modern world definitely are worth reading.
Have you considered that the "Dan Brown" parts are not meaningless or unsolved, but that he (Houellebecq) is being subtle or not explicit, leaving the reader to connect the dots?
Quick, Atomised or Submission>?
Atomised
When will we get English translation bros?
Idk what happened. The German translation was published six months ago.
when is he finally going to convert to catholicism?
you tell us, mothersucka