Good wine, good menu, three Michelin stars!

As phenolphthalein for basic media, Michel Houellebecq is a telling indicator of the French readership: he fired grumpy acid and causes chain reactions when he won the Goncourt. To read the various comments on his latest novel, especially the more severe, we realize that many have not finished reading The map and the territory. What is expected of a Goncourt, kitchen cookbook, a blockbuster scenario? Reproaching Houellebecq originality and style is nonsense.

I really liked "Extending the area of ​​the fight" and a little less "The Elementary Particles" and it is no a priori that I started it. Houellebecq is not the consensus, but I love the cards in general, and of Michelin in particular, I was immediately felt in friendly territory (IGN maps, especially those mountains and their abstruse windings are also a must, but a more delicate first). By cons I am totally refractory to the GPS which is a massive decerebration weapon. Perhaps the name of the hero was a little taken aback at first (Jed, it's weird right? And why not and then it's an anti-hero after all!).

Father portrait is beautiful, architect missed, beautiful descriptions of disappointments in life and tasty digressions on Le Corbusier.

Olga, the young Russian is totally irresistible, but that all depends on the imagination and experiences of each. As the most beautiful love stories she stops abruptly, as in real life, without explanation. It's beautiful, but sad ...

I have not really had the impression that Houellebecq had a grudge against the world of art, I even saw some rather praise the painting and the painting Houellebecq Jed Martin is almost occurred to me: a mixture of Holbein and Bacon, the hallucinated gaze of the writer, beautiful.

I found quite inflated the author starts directing, self-criticism, narcissism, blah who cares it's fun! Begbeider is endearing and the clinical picture of Lepers is a treat.

The end is enough gore but the portrait of the cop is very fair (beautiful section on pets). The technical descriptions of object (Audi, Bugatti Veyron, water heater, gently aerate the narrative as fine bubbles of Champagne (although in this case is carbon dioxide.)

To have seen and heard in some programs (harmful?) I love the character what Houellebecq. But I totally understand that some are permanently resistant to this weirdo. Would I recommend this novel to anyone, unless you have good taste?