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# The Possibility of an Island (Vintage International)

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Review: amaze - I’ve heard people describe him irl as a “raging demon” but you can’t look away at the affection toward humanism, regret of love and his intellectual sci fi projects like this
Review: Worth getting through the graphic sex. - When I began reading this book, I nearly stopped after the first few pages. While I had read about the language and sex, seeing it in print really offended me because of its excessive nature. Had I done that, this would have been the first book I had not completed in 72 years of reading. That is not why I stuck. The other comments about the book indicated that there was more here than just the initial shock and also indicated that there was some method top its madness. The last two sections are much different from the earlier chapters and are worth reading through the muck. I realized this morning that my reaction to it was like the reaction to "Lady Chatterly" a century ago. Like "Chatterley" the book needs its graphic nature to make its point, and like Lawrence, there is a point to be made. Collectively, this book affords a pretty grim picture of our world now and our world centuries from now, so if you can make it past the initial shock, there is something worthwhile to find.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #101,553 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #567 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #956 in Fiction Satire #3,967 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (517) |
| Dimensions  | 5.2 x 0.75 x 7.9 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0307275213 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0307275219 |
| Item Weight  | 8.8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | May 8, 2007 |
| Publisher  | Vintage |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ amaze
*by A***S on January 17, 2026*

I’ve heard people describe him irl as a “raging demon” but you can’t look away at the affection toward humanism, regret of love and his intellectual sci fi projects like this

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth getting through the graphic sex.
*by K***R on April 27, 2020*

When I began reading this book, I nearly stopped after the first few pages. While I had read about the language and sex, seeing it in print really offended me because of its excessive nature. Had I done that, this would have been the first book I had not completed in 72 years of reading. That is not why I stuck. The other comments about the book indicated that there was more here than just the initial shock and also indicated that there was some method top its madness. The last two sections are much different from the earlier chapters and are worth reading through the muck. I realized this morning that my reaction to it was like the reaction to "Lady Chatterly" a century ago. Like "Chatterley" the book needs its graphic nature to make its point, and like Lawrence, there is a point to be made. Collectively, this book affords a pretty grim picture of our world now and our world centuries from now, so if you can make it past the initial shock, there is something worthwhile to find.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ houellebecq at the top of his game
*by J***Y on January 16, 2012*

After something of a sputtering with Platform, Houellebecq is in high form here with Possibility of an Island. He admitted himself that Platform was a failure partially because the idea behind Possibility was clunking around in his head as he wrote Platform. That's interesting . . . This book has a number of high marks. Houellebecq isn't thought of as a sci-fi writer, but his science fiction scenarios have a quiet elegance to them, a sort of foreboding and sense of inevitability. In this sense, he matches and exceeds traditional science fiction writers. In a way, I wonder if his return to form here has something to do with his subject matter. Houellebecq is, of course, brilliant in Platform, but without the aspirations inherent in writing scifi, it could be that he surrendered to a smallness in thinking. Radikal Hip Hop... Houellebecq (this is the second time I've written Celine in place of his name, despite that their writing is not similar in the least) has a brutal mind for the kitsch. In fact, there's a hilarious line on kitsch and its relation to art: "everything is kitsch, if you like. music as a whole is kitsch; art is kitsch; literature itself is kitsch. any emotion is kitsch, practically by definition; but any reflection also, and even in a sense any action, the only thing that is not absolutely kitsch is nothingness." It's great to see that Houellebecq isn't afraid of developing what is essentially a hipster's aesthetic. Funny and a little unnerving at the same time - could it be that the hipsters have had it right all along? This book is simultaneously more and less allusive than Houellebecq's previous work. Where there would be a two page essay in Elementary particles, there is a paragraph or two here. On the other hand, Houellebecq now seems to have no problem casually namedropping Celine, Rochefoucauld, Rochelle, and so on. This signals, I think, an efficiency in thinking and more of a thought for form - after all, by this point Houellebecq has enough credibility that his mentioning "Rochefoucauld" should be enough for the dedicated reader to look the man up for himself. I agree - Good job! Looking forward to reading The Map and the Territory. Bravo, Houellebecq. By the way, there is a picture of him that was published recently where he looks exactly like Celine - it's bizarre

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