This may not be the best book to start the Houellebecq's opus, I am now fully aware of that. But the fact that it includes photos of the island is certainly a treat!

Overall, it was a quick, unpainful read. Many themes touched upon: sex, depression, tourism, escapism, sects, pedophilia.... The book practically reads like the Western Europe's zeitgeist. There is an interesting thread reading from the casual sex on an island to more dark sexual secrets, as expressions of the state of human soul. However, it seems only touched upon and left incomplete....