The Average American Male

Nov 14, 2011

Jason Morais rated it

This was the worst book I've ever read. I mean abysmally bad. In fact, it may be the only book I've ever actually had to stop reading because it was so horrible. I skipped to the end and that, too, was really bad. Basically, this book was a piece of crap.

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May 01, 2008

Olivia rated it

I literally vomited on the book! No joke!!

It's actually a great story. My lesbo neighbor lent my lesbro friend and I this book and I took several months to try to read it. One day I got alcohol poisoning and spewed off the side of my bed and onto the cum- white cover of this novel! The next morning I found dried up puke encrusted onto The American American Male and had a great, good laugh! How perfect was it that I spewed on this book; I can't really make this stuff up and I don't re...moreI literally vomited on the book! No joke!!

It's actually a great story. My lesbo neighbor lent my lesbro friend and I this book and I took several months to try to read it. One day I got alcohol poisoning and spewed off the side of my bed and onto the cum- white cover of this novel! The next morning I found dried up puke encrusted onto The American American Male and had a great, good laugh! How perfect was it that I spewed on this book; I can't really make this stuff up and I don't really need to review it any further!? I did sanitize the book and eventually returned it to my neighbor, unfinished.

This book blows but not in an enjoyable way like a blow-job. It's all the rage at Urban Outfitters and I tried to finish it on a dare and for a potential JP book club. I gave it two stars because it's definitely titalating at first, like a car crash of naked dead people, however the sexual fantasies tend to be on the side of evil and boring. It's basically about a gross misogynist guy that grimly makes fun of every woman, hates and cheats on his girlfriend, hates the band No Doubt, plays video games all the time, and jacks off an exaggerated amount of times. The guy secretly hates his girlfriend because he doesn't like her fat ass.

I can appreciate that we all have dark sides, especially; self-serving, spoiled, ignorant, mass-media-soaked, hate-filled dudes, and we all sometimes think mean thoughts, even about our own partners. I am supposed to learn something or be warned by this shock jock author, but the humor is sparse. And I am filled with enough hate myself and I don't need to read some fake book about hate.

Yes, yes men are pigs; I get it. And I forget if the guy's new piece of ass runs away, or if he runs, because he is afraid of commitment. But this book is a train wreck as the character is not even very believable. What kind of person, that is not a complete psycho, instead of the supposed average American male, would scream at his girlfriend's mom about how he explicitly cheats on and hates her daughter and thinks her daughter should get a bloody abortion etc.? Psychology 101 tells us that this guy was probably beaten and neglected by his own mother to hate women this intensely but there is no mention of motives in this fiction. And what kind of girl tries to get back involved with this sociopath? Again, no motives, just extreme drama.

Finally, why is this an average American guy thing and

why doesn't this book just be about mental illness instead?

Oi.
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Jun 24, 2008

Ryan rated it

I read this book in 2 sittings at a nearby Barnes and Noble. The writing is that light and disposable. It is also completely obscene, misogynist, heavy-handed and at times, spot on. Depending on your sensitivities, you might really enjoy this look into the most base and obvious tendencies of the "Average American Male." You might also be revolted. Either way, don't spend any money on it - you can knock this thing out in hour and a half at a book store.

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May 14, 2010

Mitchel Broussard rated it

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Shelves: subculture, humorous, summer-2010

Vile, unsympathetic to every female, and completely, unashamedly, and unabashedly, honest.

It's a memoir, in a sense. This guy has never existed, and on the other hand, he is EVERY guy that has ever existed. He's the guy that hates it when people call when he's right in the middle of a game of Halo. He's the guy that downloads so much porn that he has separate folders for different fetishes on his desktop. He's the guy that's completely confused as to why Marie Osmond is famous. We n...moreVile, unsympathetic to every female, and completely, unashamedly, and unabashedly, honest.

It's a memoir, in a sense. This guy has never existed, and on the other hand, he is EVERY guy that has ever existed. He's the guy that hates it when people call when he's right in the middle of a game of Halo. He's the guy that downloads so much porn that he has separate folders for different fetishes on his desktop. He's the guy that's completely confused as to why Marie Osmond is famous. We never get his name, but we don't need one.

He is completely and immediately likable (first chapter heading: "Christmas With Parents". First chapter, in its entirety: "Same old bullshit.") He's a 30 something slacker at a dead end "nothing special" job, whose girlfriend is obsessed with everything he isn't. He's bored with everything (except his xbox) and doesn't understand why she doesn't dump him.

The only reason i didn't give this one a full 5, was simply because it didn't have the complexity of The Lie , Chad Kultgen's other, and sadly, only, novel. Where that book had 3 completely separate views of every situation and drama that unfolded in it, this has only one. I'm not saying it gets boring or anything, on the contrary, i loved it and it was a insanely easy read. It was just a bit too simple compared to The Lie . Oh, and the narrator of this book is basically Kyle from The Lie , which, i know this one was released years before, but they were basically the same person. It's not so much as a detriment to this book, more like an observation. Despite his misanthropic and misogynistic personality, Kyle was pretty awesome.

The book isn't particularly depressing, but the ending is. The narrator basically just gives a very bleak look on life and love and makes a very, very, VERY bad decision. But, hey, i knew this wouldn't end well. I'd only read one of his books before and now i know. Chad Kultgen, he doesn't like happy endings. I'm okay with that.

So, if you can't read about sex (and i mean a lot of sex, and every kind of sex you think you know, and all the kinds you don't know) don't read this book. For me, it was really refreshing. Kultgen is just so completely honest. He cuts the bullshit and, well, lets it all hang out. It may not be up to par with The Lie , but its still full with spouts of hilarity, dirty dialogue, and in its own unique way, ends up being touching.

I honestly don't know how his books are getting published, but I'm glad some big company is taking a chance on this guy. I just hope more readers do.

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May 13, 2008

Rachael rated it

I was not impressed by this book at all. I swear, what some people will do in the name of "art."

Unfortunately, I HAVE met men like this (can anyone say college football team?), and although there are a lot of men out there like this, the author is really trumping up the "level" of manhood by calling the protagonist the "Average American Male."

I'd say he's more like the sub-average American Male. Most of whom, if any woman has any self r...more

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Apr 29, 2008

Paul rated it

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Holy ass.

This book doesn't even deserve the time I'm about to take to talk about how awful it is. Does this guy really think we've already forgotten about American Psycho after just sixteen years? Replace the violence with more sex, then rewrite the entire thing with no sense of character, voice, description, vocabulary, consistency, intellect, emotion, subtlety, etc., and you get this pathetic excuse for a novel. Christ, the titles are even similar. I actually wouldn't be surprised ...moreHoly ass.

This book doesn't even deserve the time I'm about to take to talk about how awful it is. Does this guy really think we've already forgotten about American Psycho after just sixteen years? Replace the violence with more sex, then rewrite the entire thing with no sense of character, voice, description, vocabulary, consistency, intellect, emotion, subtlety, etc., and you get this pathetic excuse for a novel. Christ, the titles are even similar. I actually wouldn't be surprised if Chad Kultgen is really Bret Easton Ellis, considering the fact that Ellis' last two books were horrible, and Kultgen's photo is mysteriously absent on the web. I smell some serious bullshit here. Though, maybe it's this sentence I smell:

"When Casey has her period she refuses to suck my dick and she's very uncomfortable with fucking." I found this by turning to a page at random and typing the first thing I saw. Honestly. Any page, I guarantee, will yield similar results. Wait though, here's something awesome: The chapters (whose titles come basically straight out of American Psycho) are numbered, but sometimes Kultgen doesn't give the chapter an actual number, he just calls it "some chapter." Hilarious! So nihilistic! So existential! So twentysomething blasé! It's so funny, in fact, that the author drops this pitiful little punchline after just two chapters, then again three chapters later, then again three-ish chapters after that, and so on until the book finally comes to its pathetic conclusion. In which, by the way, the protagonist fails to change in any way or come to any sort of revelation about what an asshole he is, but instead remains absolutely static. Every character in here is horribly clichéd and boring and poorly formed and, yes, average. All this unnamed guy does is jerk off to everything, usually like three times a day, and think about/have sex. He plays video games for four hours at a time and doesn't appear to have any responsibility or gainful employment until he mentions 95% of the way through that he "decides to take a long lunch break at work." WTF? In the second to last chapter the tense switches to the past for two sentences, then goes back to present. WTF? The book is horrible horrible horrible. WTF? Seriously, WTF.

Apparently the book wasn't selling well until the pub spent $2500 on these little YouTube shorts, which are appropriately shitty, and now the thing's selling like crazy. http://www.averageamericanmale.com.

NB there's tons of sex in this book, though American Psycho is far more "offensive" in terms of subject matter, and what I'm objecting to here is the way the book's written, the half-assed characters and lazy throw-away phrases, not the subject matter. If I wanted to hear about a dude "shooting probably the biggest load of [his] entire life up [some girl's] ass" every six pages I'd, well, be an idiot.

If I find out that you've read this book and liked it I'm going to come over and punch you.

Then we'll discuss it like human beings, though, because seriously I'd be curious to hear what you had to say.(less)

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Mar 18, 2008

Patrick rated it

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This is a really funny and purposely offensive stream-of-consciousness look into a few months in the life of a "typical" young man, as seen through his eyes. I read this at the bookstore; oddly enough it was recommended by a female via her Barnes and Noble "employee picks" card on the bookshelf, with the review "Not, I repeat, NOT for children." The mind of the narrator is obnoxious, sex-obsessed, and profane, but eventually you get used to it, it levels off, and ...more

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Oct 17, 2007

Merlin P. Mann rated it

Much in the tradition of American Psycho, this book sees the world from one man's idiosyncratic, shallow and selfabsorbed perspective, but where Ellis offers thought-provoking insight in the juxtaposition between the aestethic and the destructive, Kultgen offers just dirty words and juvenile sex fantasies - though it must be said, that he is both frank and very spot-on in his portrait of the suppressed male sexuality, it doesn't provoke much more than a lazy erection. His language is repetetive ...more

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Dec 17, 2008

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Shelves: chris-s-recommends, jackie-recommends, staff-recommends, joe-recommends

Chris S says: "Kultgen's debut novel gives us a fairly accurate, very funny, rather crude and oddly touching portrait of the Average American Male."

Jackie says: "This book was horrifying to me, but I just couldn't put it down. When I finished I gave it to a guy friend of mine. When he was done reading, I asked him if this is really true--do guys REALLY think like this. He said 'pretty much'. I really do think women should read this book--not so that they will hate ...more

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Feb 08, 2012

Toto66 rated it

I have to admit..I bought this book because I wanted to read My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me, but felt I should read the 'boyfriend's' book before I started it. Maybe if I hadn't known this was based on a real relationship (write what you know)I wouldnt' have been so appauled...but I did and I am. I absolutely hated this book. I have never been unable to finish a book...until now. Do men really jerk off every couple of hours all day long until they meet up with their girlfriends later to hav...more

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Jan 21, 2012

Sean Ferguson rated it

The Average American Male follows a nameless character around Los Angeles, as he thinks with one part of his body from the first page of Chapter Two until the final page of the book. He spends most of the book chasing that woman on the airplane, Alyna, while basically running from his long-term girlfriend, Casey. Well then, what happens in Chapter One? Each chapter is titled and, if the titles aren't setting the scene or the mood, they're a clever quip about what you're going to be reading. ...more

The Average American Male follows a nameless character around Los Angeles, as he thinks with one part of his body from the first page of Chapter Two until the final page of the book. He spends most of the book chasing that woman on the airplane, Alyna, while basically running from his long-term girlfriend, Casey. Well then, what happens in Chapter One? Each chapter is titled and, if the titles aren't setting the scene or the mood, they're a clever quip about what you're going to be reading. "Christmas with Mom and Dad" sums up where the narrator is preparing to fly home from, and the first chapter sets up the rest of this story better than any book I've ever read. Chapter One is one sentence long.

"Same old bullshit."

Whether the visit with mom and dad was a nonsensical waste of time spent watching the clock until it was time to run for the airport gates is unclear, because as you progress from chapter to chapter, the first page of this story continues to ring true. If you aren't reading about the things that the main character has done to women, you're reading what he would be doing to various women that he sees as he walks the streets of L.A. This leaves the main character standing alone in the rain, looking into the sky, trying to figure out how he can stick his member in a cloud's ass, rather than screaming at god, questioning why he's such a flat character. Seriously, that's about it. He thinks with his penis, and that's the story.

To The Average American Male's benefit, the language is short, amusing, and timely, allowing for the pages to progress along at a rather painless pace. And the narrator is a witty, sarcastic, ass, allowing for his inner-thoughts to entertain you, as he thinks up graphic ways to punish his girlfriend while she's being obnoxious. However the possibility that you're reading someone's blog just out of college, still attempting to relive those nights in the fraternity is, more and to the point, a higher probability than someone sitting at home saying, "I want to write a book about this guy..." No one wants to write a book about this guy. He's a one-note superficial misogynist and his only redeeming quality is that he willingly gives to the poor and homeless.

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Aug 03, 2011

Kirk rated it

I didn't love this book. I didn't hate it either, but I couldn't stop reading it.

That's not to say that it was so great that I couldn't put it down. I read it on an Ipod and the pages were barely a paragraph long, so it was easy to rip through. There weren't many insights to stop and reflect on, and there were no passages that made me stop to contemplate how I might adapt the stylistic renderings of the author. This book read like one of those late-night television shows that you wa...moreI didn't love this book. I didn't hate it either, but I couldn't stop reading it.

That's not to say that it was so great that I couldn't put it down. I read it on an Ipod and the pages were barely a paragraph long, so it was easy to rip through. There weren't many insights to stop and reflect on, and there were no passages that made me stop to contemplate how I might adapt the stylistic renderings of the author. This book read like one of those late-night television shows that you watch because nothing else is on, and then, much to your amazement, you actually start to like it.

Was the book validating? Yes. Not because I read it and thought "wow, somebody out there actually thinks like I do," but because I read it and thought, "shit. I guess I'm not so bad after all." Of course, I'm a three-dimensional character crafted by my surroundings. I have insecurities, fears and a conscience. I empathize with people, sometimes to the point that can be unhealthy for me. Kultgen's character has/does none of these things. As such, the protagonist doesn't develop much.

Did the book move me on an emotional level? Whenever Casey's mother came into the picture, yes. I hated her, so kudos to Kultgen for giving me that.

But despite all the things I take issue with in this book, I come back to the fact that I couldn't put it down. I didn't care about the protagonist much. I didn't find the writing that appealing. I was hoping for some insight, like maybe why the character thinks the way he does. Hell, I wouldn't have settled for a brief explanation as to why some microwavable popcorn is only 94% fat free while other brands are close to 99% fat free (I guess I'll have to tackle that one in my next book). I kept reading anyway.

Some people will tell you that there's no time in one's life to read a book you don't love. I disagree. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, I read a lot of books I didn't love. I watched a lot of television I didn't particularly care for because there was nothing else on. Sometimes you want something that's just a little more engaging than the white noise, or at least I do. And this book delivered.

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Jun 25, 2011

Shawn rated it

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This book either resonates with you or it doesn't. Look, the fact is that while all guys probably aren't (and shouldn't be) as misogynistic as this character, we all have those thoughts at one point or another. Call us sick, call us childish, call us disgusting, but it happens. The book has its faults. But as gross and outlandish as this book can be, the one thing it gets right are the feelings of trapped desperation that loads of men go through; the author captures them on the page. Hell, I was...more

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Oct 16, 2009

Bob rated it

I can't really say if I liked this book because it was actually good, or if it was just shocking.

Warning, here be spoilers.

The Average American Male is an honest (almost to the point of being embarrassing) story about a twenty-something man and his quest for the next hook-up. There were times that I was appalled by what I was reading (when the main character said that the gross homeless woman was in the 98% of the female population that he would have sex with) and others...more

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Apr 04, 2009

Zach rated it

The only reason I managed to finish this book it because I thought that there had to be some kind of turning point in the book. Something that makes you think, "Ah ha, that's why this book is this obscene for 250 or so pages." No. Nothing of this nature whatsoever. Just the "memoirs" of the typical American male. No lessons learned. No change of heart. Just a guy, being an asshole, which is all us guys are good at doing. Lessons from the book (ones that I have seen b...more

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Nov 13, 2011

Jenny rated it

So these are the books that are making it onto the shelves at Urban Outfitters? Marketed to teenagers and young adults? This book is the precise reason I'm convinced our culture is going to crap. Chad Kultgen must be a master of "the hook" because the first sentence in the novel is by far the best and last. This book has about as much value as the Kardashians or an episode of Toddlers and Tiaras. Shock value used to be associated with "banned books" that fearlessly brought a ...moreSo these are the books that are making it onto the shelves at Urban Outfitters? Marketed to teenagers and young adults? This book is the precise reason I'm convinced our culture is going to crap. Chad Kultgen must be a master of "the hook" because the first sentence in the novel is by far the best and last. This book has about as much value as the Kardashians or an episode of Toddlers and Tiaras. Shock value used to be associated with "banned books" that fearlessly brought a hidden or oppressed truth into the light. This is the "Average American Male?" Okay there, Tiger. Is our American culture really making this misogynistic little prick something that is "average?" But maybe that's a point Kultgen's tapping into since he's following up with a sequel called, "Average American Marriage." But his books are nothing more than their shock value, like Salvador Dali's, Un Chien Andalou; a 16 minute video of a scalpel cutting into a womans eye. Kultgen's books are longer than 16 minutes, without anything to sustain them beside their shock, and I think that's where he fails the most. It's just like the conditioning used in Brave New World to desensitize. How many repulsive and undesirable images can we bear before we start seeing something as average? The only reason this book gets a star at all is that I get the point that we all have deep dark thoughts that no one would dare talk about out loud, and he's not afraid to express the raw truth of it. I get the "shock" it's suppose to evoke, so I guess it succeeded in its purpose; but it is by no means a well written or well developed novel. Sex in all it's positions and multitudes can only be shocking for so long before it just gets boring. You need more. 98% of the book consists of the main character thinking about sex, having sex, or jerking off. "intellectual porn" if I should reach so far. Guess what, if you read this book and liked it, then go watch the Human Centipede; I'm sure you'll think that's just awesome as well. (less)

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Nov 11, 2011

Lily rated it

It's really intelligent to keep us unsuspecting of the "philosophical view" till the very end. I followed the hollow lives of the characters with true sadness, and when the pointlessness is revealed it all makes sense.
In his unique rebellious way, Mr. Kultgen sharply illustrates the banality of young women today, and the succumbing and numbing of young men.
But it's not all maudlin and tears. Mr.K wakes us up with shock therapy. He is a hard judge, thus the hard language. He...more

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May 21, 2010

QVT rated it

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Shelves: 24-hours

It's LA Candy for men. Features most of the worst misogyny I've ever encountered and usually complaints like that are bullshit. People complain about Daisy's line in Gatsby w/r/t a fool being the best thing a girl can be. They actually get upset about that shit, like it set women back nearly as much as Laguna Beach, The Hills, or LA Candy did. I don't mention SLL because that set animate life back at least 20 years.

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Nov 27, 2011

Zeke Chase rated it

A lot of people seem to wholly miss the point of this book, both those (few as they may be here on Goodreads) who like and those who are either indifferent or find it offensive/misogynistic/obnoxious/pornographic/juvenile...etc.

Now I'll admit that this book is highly up for interpretation, and perhaps I'm the one that's misinterpreting what the book is saying, but I don't think I am, at least not wholly. Here's why: this book speaks directly to me, and it doesn't to most people. Desp...moreA lot of people seem to wholly miss the point of this book, both those (few as they may be here on Goodreads) who like and those who are either indifferent or find it offensive/misogynistic/obnoxious/pornographic/juvenile...etc.

Now I'll admit that this book is highly up for interpretation, and perhaps I'm the one that's misinterpreting what the book is saying, but I don't think I am, at least not wholly. Here's why: this book speaks directly to me, and it doesn't to most people. Despite the title, the narrator is certainly not "average". He is quite specific and his story and its moral are targeted at someone quite specific. I may be ashamed of the fact that I identify with this character, but I do. The difference between he and I, however, is in the choices we make beyond the inherency.

Now let me start off by saying that no, I am not an obnoxious jughead frat brother. In fact, I'm an ardent feminist, so when labels like "misogynistic" are hurled at this, I tread carefully in buying nd reading it. However, I don't find this book misogynistic. Yes, it shows hatred towards INDIVIDUAL women, but it doesn't level that hatred towards WOMEN AS A WHOLE. I understand how that criticism can be applied, and to an extent one could say it's valid, but to the same extent it can be said that claims of "a strikeback against militant feminism" are also valid. I wouldn't give much weight to either.

*SPOILER ALERT*

If you want to understand this novel the way it directly speaks to me, and people like myself, re-read the epic breakup scene on Page 116:

"I want to fuck twice a day minimum or at least get my dick sucked. I want you to swallow. I want to butt-fuck you every once in a while and I want you to like it.... I want you to never want to get married or have children."

Sounds like your typical obnoxious, 2-dimensional frat boy, right? I've cut out parts of his rant and only posted the relevant portions: Anal, children, marriage. This is me. I am childfree. I had a vasectomy earlier this year to ensure that I'll never have children I don't want. I'm a self-described marriage abolitionist. The institution of marriage I find to be corrupt, counter-romantic, theocratic, too government intrusive into private affairs of the heart, commercialised, and yes, sexist. That doesn't mean I don't want love and companionship and commitment - as the narrator demonstrated he wants when he actively seeks these things with Alyna - it just means I don't want the authoritarian, misogynistic and bankrupcy of the institution.

And anal sex. I am not satisfied by the vagina. It's foreplay. It's mundanity is overwhelming. It is not satisfactory. A very good friend of mine once said "I'm not a cheater, but I understand why men cheat; it's because they're not getting what they need at home." Not to sound cliche, but, I have needs.

But the moral of this story isn't that all men are cheaters. The moral of this story is to put your foot down and demand your needs be satisfied lest you find someone else that will. Re-read the book; he never communicates anything with either Casey or Alyna. When Alyna says she doesn't want marriage or kids, he's so stunned he's silent and just kind of nods along like she'd commented on the weather. When she says how much she loved anal, he just plays it cool, not saying much. Indeed, when she asked him if he'd ever done anal before, he lied and said he hadn't. Communicate with your partner. Let her in, show her who you really are. She's not a mind reader, and she's not going to discern these things from your stoic silence. Quit trying to be average and acknowledge and express your uniqueness.

Indeed, this character could have been me, to a tee, had I not realised this years ago. I had the most the ethereal of hopes that I'd find a woman like Alyna, who doesn't want kids or marriage, and I had argument after argument, skeezy scheme after skeezy scheme, to manipulate a woman into anal. I just have too much respect for women to manipulate them like that. I've learned in life and I've learned from this book just to communicate, and be prepared to cut your losses if she's not the right woman. I can't conspired to align her sexuality with mine, nor can I her plans for her destiny. It's most honest, and most effective, to simply state your needs up front and move on if need be.(less)

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Jul 09, 2011

David rated it

I actually liked this book a great deal. The writing is good and the story is gripping. The anger that seems to fill almost every thought of the main character can be a little wearying, but it fits his character. Not everything is pleasant after all. The shit some of the other characters put onto him isn't pleasant either, but it's part of the story and that's the way it is. The real thing I liked, and I could be completely wrong on this, is the irony between the title and the main characte...more

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May 04, 2009

Mark R. Rinker rated it

It's difficult for me to say whenever I or not I enjoyed this book. I honestly don't even know if I can recommend it to anybody I know. I suppose, overall, I thought it was well-written, and it kept my interest, and made me laugh out loud on several occasions--so, three stars, a rating which, in this case, means just about nothing.

The story is a first-person narrative detailing the sexual adventures, thoughts, and motivations of a man in his late twenties. From the very beginning,...more

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Sep 06, 2011

Mark Trujillo added it

Honestly I was surprised with the initial level of narcissism given to the reader from the protagonist. The use of the first-person perspective attributed to the voice, which was authentic, as much as I can imagine a person residing in Los Angeles, or let me rephrase that, to a heterosexual white male living in Los Angeles. What I absolutely consumed from the book was the protagonist's libido. It was spot on for a young male, regardless of sexual preference, which kept me reading. I immediately ...more

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May 10, 2011

Courtney rated it

I read this book once. And will only ever read this book once.

Let me elaborate... The writing is decent enough for a journal-style piece from the viewpoint of a 20-something male. The writing is what got me to actually finish this book. It's actually quite well written. Style-wise. If you can stand the proverbial crap-ton of profanity.

The story is, well, another story. To boil it down, it's a journal by this "average american male" who is so self-involved and ...more

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Mar 30, 2009

Chris Moodster rated it

I hate to break it to the girl who was not impressed, but honestly, if you cant see the humor in the book, you are prolly something of the following. Considering that she has met men like this, she could be a casey! Or maybe she doesnt like the facts of life, that men react to what women do, the way they really do act like complete, well, the book shows it pretty well, and just aren't happy with how it shows the average american female?

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Jul 20, 2009

Jeff rated it

I haven't been so riveted by a book so recently that I finished a book so quickly. It engulfed me. Is a very misogynistic book but it hits it's mark more times then not I love this book and it's feral kernels of truth it goes perfectly with tucker max's "I hope they serve beer in hell" it's a must read for men and if women really want to know what men are liked or think stripped of all the sheen and bullshit they should read this to find out the horrible truth now true not all men are ...moreI haven't been so riveted by a book so recently that I finished a book so quickly. It engulfed me. Is a very misogynistic book but it hits it's mark more times then not I love this book and it's feral kernels of truth it goes perfectly with tucker max's "I hope they serve beer in hell" it's a must read for men and if women really want to know what men are liked or think stripped of all the sheen and bullshit they should read this to find out the horrible truth now true not all men are the same it's not fair to lump us all together but all the thoughts you read have crossed most men's minds at least more then once no one is perfect not even you ladies (and if you do think you are perfect you obviously think a little too much of yourself.) but just as films, books and television lump all of you ladies together. it is a fair assessment that men have some of the same characteristics thoughts and desires. These two books should be passed around like a secret for male bonding. Sow e can give each other knowing looks and use certain terms so we know we each read the book or ask which was your favorite story or where are you up to in the book the books really have a certain charm. I may have already said too much. I'm giving the secret away d'oh the first secret of fight club is you don't talk about fight club oh man there I go again.

That you feel guilty for enjoying but relish it like it's your id run wild. It lures you sort of like rap music. Sometimes it has the most disturbing graphic lyrics that you listen to. your like oh my god but then you really get into the beat and crave it. Then all of a sudden you accept the song hook, line and sinker. You find yourself singing songs like "pop that pussy" or from "Until the Sweat drips from my balls skeet skeet skeet skeet." And you are singing to the song aloud with no shame because you are just so into it but don't take the lyrics literally. it's like that. Trust me it's such a good read Just as you have chick lit you could call this dude lit. I know you all thought I was going to say dick.
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Sep 05, 2009

Brad rated it

If American Psycho is an upscale strip club, luscious curves and long thighs, your hands gently stroking hips as the lapdance gets going- this book is Hooters: Awkward adolescents in hot shorts with buffalo wings.

Not a single idea in the entire thing that wasn't prefigured by Ellis.

Probably the most accurate critique I can muster is that the friend who reccommended it to me bought her copy at Urban Outfitters.

Confused, belabored thesis: Kultgen apparently be...more

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Nov 08, 2011

Christian rated it

The title of the book is very deceiving; I was expecting a unique view in to the struggles of the average American male with a detailed discussion of gender roles and or a perspective opposite of the feminist movement. What I got was some guy talking about how he wants to bang everything with a pulse and the constant whining of how his girl friend’s start out at the best girls in the world but lose interest of having sex with him after a year and eventually try to force a marriage a out of him. ...more

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Feb 25, 2009

Elizabeth rated it

Shelves: so-bad-its-good, recommended

eh.

the beginning of this book was so strong. i was repulsed, but still intrigued enough to continue reading. by the end of the book i was still equally as disgusted as i was when i had started it, but most of what i was reading was so predictable none of it really surprised me. also, while i was half way through with the book i made the mistake of looking up a picture of the author. just by the way that he wrote, and the things that he was describing, i thought that he would be at l...more

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Mar 13, 2010

Kye Alfred Hillig rated it

Cruel, cold, and heartless is the best way to describe this novel. An unflinchingly brutal take on the modern male. It's deeply addictive, and is so ugly that you can't help but drink the death out of its pages. Obviously and almost plageristically resembles a less intelligent version of Ellis' 'American Psycho' in both tone and structure. Sorry Chad, but you can't rip off one of the most exciting authors of our time and expect no one to notice. As for Mr. Kultgen's writing, it is well crafted a...more

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Aug 12, 2009

Rachel Moore rated it

ugh. wish i had those 2 hours reading this by the pool of my life back. i shouldve indulged in an us weekly or star magazine instead. i hope girls dont read this and adjust anything in their attitude or life because of it. it's just plain insulting to men, and entirely false. of course, im aware that its a "comment" on the male psyche, but that doesnt make it any less distasteful or crude.

my biggest problem with the book was that he didn't even smoke weed. he just jerked off...more

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