|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
5.0 out of 5 stars
Where to travel if you want to get laid,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Plattform. Roman. (Paperback)
I tried to find the book in French to get the full impact of the writing of Houllebecq.
But I was not lucky. I am not surprised that Houllebecq is not very popular in the US. The picture he paints of our world today, created by a capitalism out of control, is so depressing and at the same time realistic, that people do not like to look into the mirror he is holding in front of us. I was interested in this particular book because it deals with world-wide sex tourism. And as I live in the US city where lonely people come in droves to get laid and a whole industry is built around pole-dancing, night-clubs, brothels and street-hookers I was interested in reading about this phenomenon from an European perspective. As a woman I wonder if women will eventually buy sex as casually as men do, but I have never been excited by Chippendale performances or pretty boys. Houllebecq's outlook for women is even worse than for men and I have to say I am glad that I am already a senior citizen. I wish there would be more books like this describing life today. |
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Plattform by Michel Houellebecq (Hardcover)
Used & New from: $36.61
| |
| ||
