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In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.<br><br>In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father’s death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent—the shyly compelling Valérie—who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre, <b>Platform</b> is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world’s most original and daring writers.
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Plateforme contains a remarkable amount of sex and is inordinately depressing, but it's well-written, engaging and quite often funny. Houellebecq evidently believes that he's watching the last days of Western civilization, if not of humanity as a whole, and he's interested in exploring what went wro...more...]]>
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fuck is this?
It reads like the fantasy of some horny middle-aged shit with nothing better to do with his time, like one of those disgusting old men who stares at my legs on the train. It's enough to make a girl wear pants, for goodness' sake. Houellebecq even gave th...more...]]>
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e.g. published a half decade before THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, houelle...more...]]>
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The protagonist -- who's more or less to be identified with the author -- enjoys just about nothing other than sex, and even that ...more...]]>
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I have now read this a second time and am having a change of heart about it. A part of me still hates it, hates Houellebecq. But this time through, I heard it as a plea from a beggar (Houellebecq) who lays bare his emptiness and poverty.
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A detached man of critical views and strong sexual needs inherits his murdered father and goes on a trip to Thailand. The writing is provocative, and would be more so if I thought that the author was the narrator. He's annoying, funny, disgusting and s...more...]]>
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