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Lanzarote
by: Michel Houellebecq

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099448365
ISBN: 009944836X
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: June 03, 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 164521

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Platform Pared of the Padding
After slogging through the misogynist, anti-Arab rant that is Platform this is the same idea, but hugely pared down and more enjoyable for its brevity. Platform was a padded out vehicle for Houellebecq's predicatable hatred of Islam and disrespect for women. While Lanzarote contains the same themes - Azraelian sect, sexuality and fun-in-the-sun - it doesn't get a chance to descend to the same level of attacks on Houellebecq's favoured targets that mar his other books.

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- Lanzarote is one of the most beautiful islands in Europe
How dare they call Lanzarote uncultural and hedonistic? It is not the island that is uncultural and hedonistic but the badly educated common tourists that travel there and remain in their small enclaves of english larger louts and retired, beer bellied, uncultured, not speaking a word of Spanish and loud British citizens.
I grew up in Lanzarote and excluding certain tourist destinations (Costa Teguise, Playa Blanca and Playa del Carmen) it is a stunning island with very friendly laid back people.
If people decide to stay for 7 nights in their villa surrounded by blackboards that tell us proudly that they serve English fried breakfasts at 2 euros (in 30 degree heat) then very well, but please don't judge a stunning volcanic island ... Read More:

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- Nothing to offer
Loved his other books - not this one though. It covers many of the same themes but nowhere near as well.

Usually his books are very funny - again this was very light on the humour.

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- Betrayal
I have given this 'pamphlet' one star because reading Houellebecq at this level is still better than reading most things. Anyone who read Atomised and Platform will feel utterly betrayed by this half hearted attempt, and anyone who hasn't read Houellebecq before would be better advised to go for those titles - they are superb.

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- When a snack is as tasty as a meal.
Mixed reviews for the hardback version of this book, mostly regarding its length. I enjoyed it immensely, but then, I never really got into 'Atomised', much preferring 'Platform'.

OK, 'Lanzarote' is a short (very short) story, in which nothing much happens. Whereas it was said of Beckett's greatest play 'nothing happens... twice', it could be argued that in 'Lanzarote' we don't even get double the nothingness. So what do we get?

A taut, well-written, evocative, erotic, snapshot of a brief moment in time. Like the photographs which accompany the novella, the text itself - the story - is one frame abstracted from a complete roll. Where the rest of that roll is, who knows? That isn't important.

Houellebecq speaks ... Read More:

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