Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq

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@ThatReadingGuy28 2 ай бұрын

No need to apologize for not making videos. It’s all up to you if you want to continue this booktube thing. Glad you’ve had a good reading year!

@Noddles404 2 ай бұрын

Good to see you're back! This is my favorite booktube channel

@chazgross4519 Ай бұрын

Welcome back..Been missing your channel. One of my favorites of KZbin. You have excellent reading tastes which never fail to insire my own reading.

@davidnovakreadspoetry 2 ай бұрын

Houellebecq has been appearing in my feed quite a lot lately - this is the first one I’m clicking on. Welcome back.

@philipbolton7265 2 ай бұрын

Great to see you back 👍

@dansan9845 2 ай бұрын

Welcome back sir!

@Bambles101 2 ай бұрын

Didnt leave anyone down! Just delighted to see another video from you! Keep well.

@Jiminy-trx 2 ай бұрын

I've watched every one of your videos, Matthew! Thank you for every video you make - I appreciate them all deeply thank you for making this video & Thank you for every video that you ever have made or ever will make, they are all loved and appreciated - so thank you ! :) - great to see you!

@ALINA-rv2vg 2 ай бұрын

Welcome back! Lovely

@valpergalit 2 ай бұрын

Long time no see! Great timing for your return - I just finished Annihilation this morning. I very much agree with your estimations, especially about the translation and the typos. If Houellebecq hadn’t written it, I don’t think this novel would get any attention based on Whiteside’s English prose alone. In this age of lazy publishers and corner-cutting, it almost makes me curious if AI was involved since the prose is so mundane and robotic, so different from earlier Houellebecq. I don’t remember Serotonin, Whiteside’s other translation, being this way at all. That said, you’d think typos would be a thing of the past if AI could do its job and help proofread the damn thing!

@MrBarbacol 2 ай бұрын

Missed your videos. Glad to see you back .

@sterlingreads547 2 ай бұрын

So great to see you! 🤗🍂

@JamesRuchala 2 ай бұрын

Great to see you back!

@itsmarym 2 ай бұрын

Always great to see you!

@respawnicon 2 ай бұрын

I laughed when you said "balzac" hehe. Welcome back buddy. I've been wondering about you lately.

@Barklord 2 ай бұрын

Welcome back. Nice to hear you talking while I work. I've never heard of this author.

@tim2401 2 ай бұрын

good to see you again

@Richardwestwood-dp5wr 2 ай бұрын

Welcome back Mathew, you did it on the election day, literature above politics for sure, lol.

@FaysalFaruque 2 ай бұрын

Welcome Back!

@chooselife1509 2 ай бұрын

What's your favorite Houllebecq book? (if I rule this one out due to the translation)

@stanislavkozlov8633 2 ай бұрын

Welcome back !

@poorni4742 2 ай бұрын

You're back :)

@peterock4210 3 күн бұрын

Cannot find on goodreads? Any reason?

@MayberryBookclub 3 күн бұрын

I've never used Goodreads, I don't know why.

@richieart4133 2 ай бұрын

I too found this to be a very mixed bag. The family and marital relationship stuff was fantastic and moving, but a lot of the other bits were in and out and inconsistent. The novel could have been shorter and tighter. The translation’s editing was shocking for such a release.

@nickanthony3951 20 күн бұрын

There’s this notion I’ve heard about the book in different places that the messiness of the focus or efficiency of all the pieces, is Houellebecq deliberately seeking to emulate the disconnectedness of life or life in the end, versus that he’s “losing his touch”, the more common critique by outlets. I’m not sure if you or others felt any gravity toward one direction or the other I’m stuck square in the center.

@joeber3869 2 ай бұрын

Do not be so hard on yourself, mate. We introverts understand.

@Pthunderful 2 ай бұрын

i usually like to go back and read my favorite HB passages....not with this book. kind of just boring. maybe it will grow on me, think it;s a slow release and will age well for me b/c I like the author.