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After finally getting around to reading The Possibility Of An Island, I came across, via Conversational Reading, this review in The New Republic by James Wood. I don’t necessarily agree with everything Wood says about the novel, or Houellebecq in general, but it is still a very interesting read nonetheless.

I just finished reading The Possibility Of An Island last night. Honestly, this was my least favorite Houellebecq novel. I really enjoyed the first half of the book, but once all the stuff about cloning took over I became less interested really quickly. It’s still a great book, but not as good as Platform or The Elementary Particles.

Via Book Slut, The New Yorker has a review up of Michel Houellebecq’s new book The Possibility Of An Island written by John Updike. Updike and Houellebecq? Cool!  The review also touches on Houellebecq’s previous books too. It’s nice to see someone give Whatever some props, that book seems to always get shorted when praise is handed out in difference to Platform and The Elementary Particles.

The London Review Of Books has a great biographical piece up about Michel Houellebecq. I can’t wait for May so I can read Possibility of An Island.

Via Conversational Reading, we have this interview from SFGATE.com with one of my favorite authors Michel Houellebecq. I cannot recommend The Elementary Particles any higher; by far the best book I read last year. Remind me to pick up Platform soon.

Read in 2005: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq.

Read in 2004: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq.