The Average American Male: A Novel
by Chad Kultgen
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Read in April, 2008
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 surp...more
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 surp...more
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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 really nee...more
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 nee...more
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Read in March, 2008
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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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who can handle cursing, frank discussion of sex, and an intolerably harsh narrator
A blurb on the back cover suggests that this book is either an honest report from the front lines of the battle of the sexes or a send up of the view militant feminists have of men. I would take a slightly altered view -- I believe it is a satire of chic lit (but for men). It has all the ingredients -- sex, relationships, emotional trauma, marriage, romantic misunderstandings. The only thing it lacks is shopping for shoes and a job in the big city.
My biggest complaint with the book is the la...more
My biggest complaint with the book is the la...more
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Read in September, 2007
I'm not typically one to be offended but this book kinda did it. It paints "the average American male" as a grade A, top-notch douchebag asshole. The kind of guy most of us wouldn't piss on if he was on fire. It offended me, as an American male, to be categorized like this. Kultgen's main character (I just can't call him the protagonist, sorry) is such a heartless shitbag men everywhere should be rushing to sex-change clinics just to further disassociate from this clown. To quote ...more
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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 respect, might ha...more
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 respect, might ha...more
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Read in June, 2008
Though not usually one for critiques/blogs, partially because I am not the most riveting writer,partially because I am lazy , I decided to write a little diddy about this book I just read :" The Average American Male."
Now, this novel was suppossed to be so scandalous, so outrageous. so truly revolting that after reading it, you would not be able to tell whether you wanted to vom or if you had just read a masterpiece. ( that's right, I read the shiteous reviews on the internet)...more
Now, this novel was suppossed to be so scandalous, so outrageous. so truly revolting that after reading it, you would not be able to tell whether you wanted to vom or if you had just read a masterpiece. ( that's right, I read the shiteous reviews on the internet)...more
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Read in May, 2007
recommends it for:
Women with bad self-images
So this book had me laughing hysterically! No seriously, I think this is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to know about how the kids in Southern California live. To me I see it as a human study on the interaction and mind state of the early 20's generation who not only live in this area of the US but are also slowly infecting the rest of the 50 states with their moral collective.
I also see this book being a self-help sort for any girl dating a guy under 30. All those books like "He Jus...more
I also see this book being a self-help sort for any girl dating a guy under 30. All those books like "He Jus...more
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Read in October, 2007
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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Read in May, 2007
recommends it for:
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Gandhi: "There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence."
Average American Male: "There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, pussy and EverQuest."
Ummm, yeah. So what can I say about "The Average American Male: A Novel"?
What should I really say about it? It was shallow, stupid, trite, inconsiderate, totally fucked up, and a little bit entertaining....more
Average American Male: "There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, pussy and EverQuest."
Ummm, yeah. So what can I say about "The Average American Male: A Novel"?
What should I really say about it? It was shallow, stupid, trite, inconsiderate, totally fucked up, and a little bit entertaining....more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
I'm not sure
Well, this book is probably the dirtiest thing I've ever read in my life, which is likely why I finished it. The narrator/main character is supposed to be the "average american male" which-- if that is the case, I'm deeply concerned about the entire American male gender. Though the language was the crudest most profane stuff I've ever read in my life (not kidding) I still couldn't put it down. I think that my total disbelief is what propelled me to continue reading it.
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Read in January, 2008
The reason why I picked up this book was beacuase of the title and the 1st page. If I knew what the contents was all about, I swear i would have put it down. However, this book was particularly interesting because instead of the woman's POV of a man, its the other way around, and it makes you feel sorry for the guy (you never get to know him name) because he's so confused. However, he seems so obnoxious (sp?) and obsessed with sex. His ex-girlfriend (Cassie) is so annoying and everytime she come...more
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Read in February, 2008
I think I would have been offended by this book had I no sense of humour.
I agree with the author that many women of the type he would date are naive, shallow, needy, have high expectations, bad taste, typical motives and mediocre fantasies about what the perfect husband should be like. I wish more women would have higher standards than The Average American Male. If they don't, and they end up with someone like this, it's nobody else's fault. If a woman meets a man like this in a bar like thos...more
I agree with the author that many women of the type he would date are naive, shallow, needy, have high expectations, bad taste, typical motives and mediocre fantasies about what the perfect husband should be like. I wish more women would have higher standards than The Average American Male. If they don't, and they end up with someone like this, it's nobody else's fault. If a woman meets a man like this in a bar like thos...more
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So I ended up reading this book in a very short period of time (a few subway rides). After having some time to digest-I think this book suceeds in shock factor and some dark humor. Overall, it wasn't the best book I have ever read but it wasn't the worst either. It kept me salaciously horrified through the end. At best, it is a good topic of conversation- people enjoy talking about this one.
I'm already halfway through this, and i'm scared. Scared thinking that this is how men really thin...more
I'm already halfway through this, and i'm scared. Scared thinking that this is how men really thin...more
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Read in March, 2007
I can't believe I left this title off my list when I first posted it, because it's EASILY the best book I read this month. Well, maybe not best, but certainly the most entertaining. It is seriously crass, offensive, misogynistic, and the protagonist is a sort of detestable creature. It took ages for a publisher to even look twice at it, because it's funny as Hell but also completely offensive. Fortunately, it finally got published and I laughed my way through the whole thing. What I find remarka...more
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I thought this book was well written. I liked that the main character was never refered to by name. It added to the idea that he was the average male. He was completely indentifiable...everyone knows someone like him.
I did find him condesending and did not like his reference to all women as "bitches". He seemed very judgemental of the people around him and not once ever considered that the direction his relationships took ever had anything to do with him.
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I did find him condesending and did not like his reference to all women as "bitches". He seemed very judgemental of the people around him and not once ever considered that the direction his relationships took ever had anything to do with him.
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My favorite part of this book is the dedication, where the author thanks his mother for encouraging him to write, and then apologizes for writing something that she won't want to read.
It's a look inside the average american male's mind, where he thinks about sex, plays video games, thinks about sex while playing video games, watches porn and evaluates the possibility of having sex with every single woman he sees. Along the way, he accidentally kind of gets engaged to the girlfriend he hat...more
It's a look inside the average american male's mind, where he thinks about sex, plays video games, thinks about sex while playing video games, watches porn and evaluates the possibility of having sex with every single woman he sees. Along the way, he accidentally kind of gets engaged to the girlfriend he hat...more
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Read in November, 2007
This is an extremely chauvinistic American male's take on his day to day life and relationships as opposed to one of the "average American male" as the title leads one to believe. While mildly entertaining by way of toilet humor and brief erotica, this book comes across as trite. The mystery surrounding Kultgen's lead character was his ultimate downfall. The character is faceless, nameless, floating in life somewhere in L.A. USA, but certainly not penis-less, as that is mostly what he ...more
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Read in December, 2007
My best friend told me to read this book and said "This is the way guys think." Imagine me rolling my eyes right now.
I hope to God this is not the way American males think all the time, or they should probably all kill themselves.
Look, every human being has a penchant to think cruelly about other people, to be more concerned with their own comfort, safety and happiness than that of anyone else. We all have drives and desires that aren't entirely fair.
This novel is basica...more
I hope to God this is not the way American males think all the time, or they should probably all kill themselves.
Look, every human being has a penchant to think cruelly about other people, to be more concerned with their own comfort, safety and happiness than that of anyone else. We all have drives and desires that aren't entirely fair.
This novel is basica...more
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Read in June, 2007
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Any girl that reads Cosmo for the boyfriend or the dating quiz needs to read this gem!!!!! Any girl that feels that she has the male ego completley mapped out needs to read this for corrections. Any girl that though a book like "HE'S NOT THAT INTO YOU" was the marvel that helped recaptured her self esteem needs to read this, so she understand self help books only help the author get rich.
Average American Male is a starkly sexual saturated piece that reveals the working cogs of a ...more
Average American Male is a starkly sexual saturated piece that reveals the working cogs of a ...more
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