Mentions (43)
"Tired of trying to feign being intelligent and cultured. idk who kafka, hollebequeec, nietzsche or scorseses are. no more talking about NATO, whoever they are. we are bimbomaxxing."
"Just want to throw respect at Anna for showing a modern woman can: 1. Be unconventionally beautiful + well-dressed 2. Be all knowing and powerful 3. Maintain a tastefully feminine, refined, and chaste sensibility while also adoring at Dasha's perpetual, low-grade (though fully playful) perviness 4. "
"Houellebecq has a prominent spot in every bookstore I've been too"
"If you've yet to engaged in his philosophy, I highly recommend it, particularly if you're enamoured by RS-adjacent writers like Houellebecq."
"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world."
"Over the past few months /r/RSBookClub has read Hrabel's *Too Loud a Solitude*, Didion's *Slouching Towards Bethlehem*, Houellebecq's *Elementary Particles*, Bulgakov's *The Master & Margarita*, and Tolstoy's *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*."
"Reading Submission by Houllebecq while sitting between a veiled East African woman yelling Swahili into her phone and a Roman Catholic pilgrim on his way to Portugal to complete the Camino de Santiago."
"Life feels like a Houellebecq novel a lot of the time. I'm going to die alone on my paltry trust fund having excellently avoided all closeness to any other human. But other times it's alright."
"Don't worry, I find the Houellebecq translations to actually be okay, and not all translations are bad. But movie subtitles are usually pretty bad, even official ones."
"4 - Michel Houellebecq - Anéantir"
"She mentioned in the houellebeqc ep that she 'can't smoke or drink'......."
"Any recommendations on recent books you've enjoyed? A few I've liked are: *Serotonin* - Michel Houellebecq"
"I wanted to translate a post from swedish reddit that made me sad and is a poignant example of the cruelty and indifference of bureaucracy, it reminded me of something from Houellebecq."
"atomized by Michel Houellebecq. Didn't like it. I know this author is quite popular here but whatever eh."
"I mean, didn't she also regurge Houellebecq's covid essay (which he'd written a week before), & pretend they just coincidentally had a similar outlook?"
"It's the closest I've come to an answer to "what would Houellebecq or Delicious Tacos write like if they were women"."
"Yesterday I found myself in a situation not unlike one described in Elementary Particles by Houllebecq where Djerzinski is in love with this girl but is paralyzed by some force that prohibits him from acting on it."
"This is a niche rant, but I hate the Marxist readings of Houellebecq's work where they frame him as some commentator on how 'neoliberalism impacts relationships'. When you look more closely at Houellebecq's influences, he's heavily influenced by Schopenhauer. He even wrote a book 'In the Presence of"
"Recently finished reading Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles and I hate how much I related to Bruno at certain points... Bruno's loneliness and relationship struggles really resonate with me at certain points of the book"
"Michel Houellebecq can be loathed or admired, but there is little doubt that he is one of the eminent Western novelists of our age. I am repeatedly stunned at how well his books have aged over the decades and how poignantly he was able to predict, from the 90's onwards, what civilisational problems "
"I stopped at Barnes and Nobel to pick up a copy of Houellebecq's "Serotonin" and when she scanned the book at the checkout the cashier said "I've been waiting for somebody to buy this.""
"So just finished reading Houellebecq's atomised and its hit me with a more demoralising realisation than any snuff film I've ever watched. For those who have read it I find myself relating heavy with Djerzinski."
"New 700 page Houellebecq novel out January 7"
"Houellebecq has a prominent spot in every bookstore I've been too"
"Reading Submission by Houllebecq"
"Life feels like a Houellebecq novel a lot of the time. I'm going to die alone on my paltry trust fund having excellently avoided all closeness to any other human."
"4 - Michel Houellebecq - Anéantir"
"Yesterday I found myself in a situation not unlike one described in Elementary Particles by Houllebecq where Djerzinski is in love with this girl but is paralyzed by some force that prohibits him from acting on it."
"I hate the Marxist readings of Houellebecq's work where they frame him as some commentator on how 'neoliberalism impacts relationships'"
"Recently finished reading Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles"
"Michel Houellebecq can be loathed or admired, but there is little doubt that he is one of the eminent Western novelists of our age. I am repeatedly stunned at how well his books have aged over the decades and how poignantly he was able to predict, from the 90's onwards, what civilisational problems "
"I stopped at Barnes and Nobel to pick up a copy of Houellebecq's "Serotonin""
"The first one was by Holleubeqk? Some sad retxrd meandering, drinking, and unprompted & unconvincingly bringing up getting pussy. I got about 20 pages in before I realized I had been play. This is just French Stav!"
"So just finished reading Houellebecq's atomised and its hit me with a more demoralising realisation than any snuff film I've ever watched"
"New 700 page Houellebecq novel out January 7"
"Praying I don't see a wall of Houllebecq lol"
"*Houellebecq, Atomised (trans. Wynne)*"
"Just finished Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles."
"Houellebecq has made it his entire thing to be as repulsive as possible so I do not think he is against it"
"Just read "Submission" by Houellebecq - short review"
"Basically for [Schopenhauer] love is a disguise for the reproductive impulse... if we want to think about it more romantically, then love is an attempt, a human attempt, like the moral law, like god, like little dogs. A human attempt to make the world a better place."
"This book is a fascinating medley between two incredible writers."
"Age gap Epstein gender mogged houllebecq drone warfare"