“No man is an island...except perhaps the English-language critic that admits to identifying with any of Michel Houellebecq's mouthpieces. Learned distaste appears quite universal. John Updike calls this novel "an opinionated drone, an interminable blog from nowhere" and Michael Worton accuses Houellebecq of "loathing both his public and mankind in general and making a festish of his own honesty." Yet I'd liken my fondness for the French reprobate's blogs from nowehere to that of a teenage...”

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