or puerile in this sense:

"Its intention is so plainly to rile, to epater, that any objections one might raise feel like further ammunition to its entrenched misanthropy. One can only assume that France's literary scene must have been suffering a profound torpor if it responded with such outrage to this bilious, hysterical and oddly juvenile book."

taken from the review here:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...52C1A9669C8B63