Reviews

Rozšírenie bojového poľa by Mária Ferenčuhová, Michel Houellebecq

e_etcetera's review against another edition

1.0

Je m'interdisais de lire cet auteur. Il a fallu qu'un mec mignon m'en parle pour que je sois faible et me decide à mourir moins bête sans en attendre grand chose.
C'est mysogine, à la limite de l'apologie de la violence domestique. Cet homme semble un être misérablement frustré sexuellement et sentimentalement et préfère le mettre sur le dos des femmes que sur ses propres turpitudes.

rol's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Entiendo que no sea plato de gusto de muchas personas. El personaje de una novela tiende a identificarse con su autor. Y el personaje derruido de ésta novela encarna lo peor que se agita bajo la apariencia civilizada de nuestra era post industrial. A pesar de todo, el mecanismo de identificación hace que acompañemos con empatía a un personaje nada, o casi nada, empático. Es un libro que aúna humor con desesperación sin por ello sumirnos en la desesperanza. A veces roza la parodia y otras veces el lirismo. Su equilibrio, a pesar de la brutalidad con la que está cincelado, es delicado. Una obra maestra no apta para todos los públicos.

crissy_estev's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

nonoemi's review against another edition

4.0

Michel Houellebecq has been described as the enfant terrible of contemporary French writers. And I think that’s an apt description, in the same way that Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son or that rambunctious kid from The Omen were enfant terribles...

Read the rest of my thoughts on Houellebecq's Whatever at www.joaquinlowe.com/blog on on my blog here on my author page at goodreads!

kinnimomo's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

laura_bower's review against another edition

5.0

I really don't get why I like this kind of thing so much... by "this thing" I mean gloomy manchild incel moaning and mean-spiritedness. For some reason I'm always quite onboard for delving into this kind of pointless mentality, a big fan of Diary of a Oxygen Thief, Notes From the Underground, and all that sort of stuff. But what's weird is that I find these kinds of attitudes intolerable in real life. Maybe there's just something good about getting a little peer behind the curtain, though I don't want it right in front of me.

Either way, Whatever is another one of those books, so I loved it more than what I probably should, even though I wouldn't say it was doing anything especially new. Would recommend it if you're also into that kind of thing.

gera_mtz's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

awlks's review against another edition

dark funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

zackario's review against another edition

4.0

très particulier de savoir que ce qui a le plus choqué les lecteurs à la sortie du livre était la critique de l'engrenage du travail et non sa misogynie.

supreeth's review against another edition

3.0

Houellebecq has been writing same book since the day-1, and yet the only succesful & culturally accepted author writing it.