Halloween is fun! I was a cult leader this year. A creepy, Mormon, polygamist, Raelian cult leader. Check out my voodoo cobra!
Seriously, cults and cult leaders are creepy. Michel Houellebecq's new novel, the Possibility of an island, is very dark illustration of this. I'd say it's his best novel yet, but includes all of his previous novels' flaws and ego trips.
It's essentially a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel in which most of humanity has been destroyed by war and ecological disaster, the survivors regressing into a cavemanesque existence. However, a small group of "neo-humans" have emerged, completely independent and isolated, the genetic descendants of the members of a very Raelian-like cult.
The novel is very, very dark, very honest and quite funny at times.
5 comments:
Holy crap, you look creepy.
You look like one of those 80's rocker porn stars.
You look like one of those 80's rocker porn stars.
You look like one of those 80's rocker porn stars.
I don't know why that was sent in triplicate.
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