Houellebecq - good long review

Here's a good long review of Houellebecq and his new book:

Houellebecq once said in an interview that when he wrote Whatever, he expected that the novel “would provoke social change.” He thought, apparently, that it would force us to confront our cultural preoccupation with physical appearance and alter our social rituals. He was quickly disillusioned. “When you go into a club today, you see the same behavior as six years ago. A novel won’t ever change the world.”