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Review title: Disturbingly bad
Product review: Finishing this book took great courage. Mired in pornographic imagery and shallow philosophy (I have not seen the word "ontology" so badly misused--maybe it was the translation?), I found the conclusion to be an insult. How can Houellebecq offer us the slightest hint of redemption? Maybe, in fact, I am missing the brilliant point here. Maybe I should give it five stars. Maybe he is saying, "Look, I despair of this trash I just wrote as much as you. I cannot stay out of the gutter. Shattered bits of philosophy jangle around in my head. How else am I to dispose of them? Forgive me, and accept my apologies for I am part of a doomed gender, a doomed species." In either case, the end result is pathetic. Some fools will proclaim this to be "art." I'm afraid, then, contrary to what a reviewer before me offered, that the bar has been lowered, not raised.
