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is 80% done
Even as he offends and provokes, he evokes the deepest compassion. It’s almost impossible to know what to do with Houellebecq’s deep humanity. He is more transparent than any person you know - and what you see is deeply painful, perverse, and beautiful.
— Jul 13, 2025 05:39PM
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Brett Linsley
is 80% done
All I can say is this has the best dog storyline I’ve ever read. Houellebecq, with his typical cynicism, mocks the shallowness that underlies dogs replacing children in our culture - and yet, it is a dog who teaches the post-human protagonist what love means. In short, Houellebecq shows with remarkable compassion the weight dogs bare because of the decadence of the west. Creation groans for redemption.
— Jul 15, 2025 06:38PM
