the premise of this book is the story of 2 half brothers who seem a world apart...
on the one paw, you have Michel, the microbiologist, thinker and idealist... and on the other paw, you have Bruno, a "libertine" whose almost insatiable lust is almost never reciprocated...
however, they are just examples, of our Atomised Society, where religion and morality as given way to the shallowness of "new age" philosophies and love has been thrown away for meaningless sexual encounters...
within this book, Houellebecq writes and dismantles the very society we live in, questioning all the assumptions, offering insights, and cuts right to the bone of what goes on in our society....
it is a book that makes one think about what we ourselves are doing and where we are going in this world... and questions our goals and our means, our belief systems and everything about ourselves...
a definite must-read
