The whole story of fiction, that happens in the first 10 pages and ends in the last 10-15 pages probably would have done just the object dune some new interesting (just).
But all the rest of the 250 pages that are in the middle is of a total disinterest, pedantic and not too well written. There is also a rather large collection of words like "masturbation" "masturbation", "bandage", "ejaculation" and other terms related to solitary pleasure (see sometimes two), but without much interest (descriptions do not even sensual or erotic, merely descriptive). Létalage Houellebecq made some pseudo-scientific, that it was probably gleaned from Wikipedia or scientific friends (because I do not believe it to be stupid things) probably amazed critics who ny understand anything! (My God what a great intelligence to write everything here that is just one bunch of useless theories to the novel). Again the author makes pedantry, as in The Map and the Territory, dHouellebecq first novel that I read, saw the Goncourt, with LOTS of disappointment! (Where the author even staged by describing "the author of Elementary Particles"; no room for complacency!).
The positive review about this novel reminds me incomprehensible opinion critical of contemporary art, sesbaudissant front of a white canvas with a single line in the middle, and finding a message (probably subliminal to most humans). Here the media and press reviews that (maybe) read and issued opinions on this novel may have been dazzled by the so-called high culture if Houellebecq (his digressions scientific and biological nickname), his provocative tone (talk sex almost every page) and his little tale of fiction at the end
Really not recommended. I do not think I even reread the Houellebecq; too pedantic, raw and unattractive style with no real history.
