Michel Houellebecq: France's New Literary "Enfant Terrible" and Islamophobe

no time for these frivolous things. too busy reading chowk and having a scrap here. Maybe you should try it as well sometime. its refreshing.

What? Has no one else from Chowk read any of Houellebecq's work? I find that hard to believe.

Sex, Islamophobia, cloning, sex tourism, re-engineering human beings, the collapse of morality in Western society, the triumph of secular liberalism--all these are recurring themes in his work. Surely, here we have enough topics to talk over on Chowk.

I await some responses. The only thing I'd add would be to say if you only read one of these books make sure it is Atomised (in the US it was released as The Elementary Particles) and don't watch the (watchable) German movie based on it until you've read the novel.