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| Original Title: | Plateforme |
| ISBN: | 1400030269 (ISBN13: 9781400030262) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Michel Renault, Valérie, Jean-Yves |
| Setting: | Paris(France) Thailand |
Michel Houellebecq
Paperback | Pages: 259 pages Rating: 3.8 | 16100 Users | 915 Reviews
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| Title | : | Platform |
| Author | : | Michel Houellebecq |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 259 pages |
| Published | : | July 13th 2004 by Vintage (first published August 24th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Novels |
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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. 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, Platform is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world’s most original and daring writers.Rating Out Of Books Platform
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Relevant to something I'm researching- can't think why anyone else would read it.Tedious and meandering.Every time I read 'Clearly man was never meant to be happy', it's like, that kind of statement is something no one in the entire universe can make because they don't have access to enough information in order to make it. All it means is 'I am an unhappy man.' Boo hoo lol.Man was meant to decide whether or not he wants to be happy. He can be unhappy if he wants, but why?Sprachlos... After reading this novel, I confirm that Houellebecq is the kind of writers that is hard to find nowadays. He writes about how he see the world, he doesn't write what other want to read. Nowadays, most of the writers are just business man, trying to sell their books without compromise them selfs exposing a philosophy or and idea. Houellebecq just write what he thinks, analyzing the present, and projecting to the future. In Platform we can read strong compliments against occident,
A vicious and incredibly bleak social critique that is as subtle and incendiary as a suicide bomber. Houellebecqs horror and hatred of our modern world spills from nearly every page; nothing is sacred and no one is spared. The novel is narrated by Michel, a pessimistic middle-aged man who, to his mind, lives in an era so corroded by consumerism, narcissism and terrorism that genuine human contact or happiness can only be obtained through the blissful abandon of sexual orgasm even if its with a
After reading Submission, Platform came to confirm my initial view I had for Michel Houellebecq. Same here the writer is cynical, raw, eccentric in a way, but more than all, an absolutely realist, whether people want to accept it or not. It is easy to see why he shocks with his books, but to me, this is not his point, he just writes down through his plots the reality, no matter how cruel it is. And he deserves congrats, it needs courage and some times audacity to stamp all these to the paper and
Can't stand the masturbatory writing of Houellebecq. Can't. stand. it.
Graphic sex! Racism! Misogyny! Sex tourism! Are you offended yet?I don't think I can say anything about the misogyny that hasn't already been said. Yes, it's misogynistic. Boringly, predictably so. We get it; women are stupid, worthless whores. Is it wrong of me to wish for a little more innovation in my morning dose of bigotry?But look at Valérie, some say. Valérie is perfect (which is a problem in itself). She has it all: youth, outstanding looks, superior skills in bed, a lot of money, a very
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