Tag: books

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• A concerning lack of vitality of VitalSource ebooks

  August 19th 2026 (week 34 of 2026)

  VitalSource ebooks are anything but. Regrettably, this means that Routlege's ebook catalogue is almost useless.

• Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

  June 16th 2026 (week 25 of 2026)

  A friend recommended The Course of Love, one of Allain de Botton's books, to me.

• Traces of two pasts

  March 23rd 2025 (week 12 of 2025)

  A novel by Kazushige Nojima accompanying the Final Fantasy VII Remake games. I like FF7, but I expected the book to be typical video game related novel ie, nothing special. How wrong have I been...

• Plateforme

  March 16th 2025 (week 11 of 2025)

  So far, all of Houellebecq's novels I have read follow the same basic plot. Plateforme is not really any different to Les Particules élémentaires, and even in Extension du domaine de la lutte one can see the same pattern—although in a raw, experimental form.

• Les Particules élémentaires

  March 4th 2025 (week 10 of 2025)

  "Atomised" is the second novel written by Michel Houellebecq. To me, it shares its theme with Whatever—Houellebecq's first novel—but explores it in more depth and from a different angle.

• Concluding remarks on Extension du domaine de la lutte

  February 4th 2025 (week 6 of 2025)

  "Whatever" was definitely not a leichte Lektur. It is a strange book, but at the same time it felt not difficult at all to understand. Some parts of it, at least.

• Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte

  January 24th 2025 (week 4 of 2025)

  The book is about a 30 year old software programmer with a resigned view of life. Given the similarity to my own situation, the description piqued my curiosity.