Independent review of Houellebecq's Platform
Boyd Tonkin reviews Platform by Michel Houellebecq, and he's not as impressed as some other critics. "His fans routinely hail Houellebecq as a fearless, and fearsome, Sade or Céline for the age of dial-up porn, designer fetishism and long-haul package tours. For me, he can sometimes look more like the Ozzy Osbourne of modern French letters." Not that being "the Ozzy Osbourne of X" should be considered an insult, but you get the idea.
