What do you think of him? Except that every photo of him looks like a mugshot.
He gets points for being a materialist that at least recognizes how awful and soulless modern life is. But he loses points for somehow managing to be more anti-traditional than anti-modern.
(This is a man who literally thinks that the future of technology, as a future consequence of the Enlightenment, will somehow redeem our listless, perfunctory, perverted and infantile existences- a present consequence of the Enlightenment.)
His prose is awful. His characters are paper-thin. He would be better if he wrote essays instead of the crap he tries to pass off as novels.
Put another way:
Yes Mr. Houllebecq, we know our life is a sham: I don't need you to tell me. I don't go to books to have my face rubbed in that. I go to books because I want some way, temporary or enduring, out of it.
>>7656635
Literally how I feel about Wallace.
does he have fetal alcohol syndrome?
>>7656719
do you?
wtf dis nigga look like he was cursed
look like he pissed off a gypsy
look like a fuckin necromancer
like he sold his soul to a dude
like he bought a doll you can't get rid of
what da fuck
35% of his body by weight is cigarette ash
Imagine the smell
>>7657246
Kek
Is it bad that I've never read a single one of his books but always click on Houellebecq threads to see what new insults people will come up with for him?
huge french asshole
>>7656710
Is dfw not life affirming?
>>7657416
Even ignoring his suicide, not really.
>>7656635
>I go to books because I want some way, temporary or enduring, out of it.
Not to be too judgmental, but if you're looking for a way out of life I can't help but think your money could be better spent than on books. Even a posh suicide in Switzerland isn't gonna break the bank these days.
