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The Average American Male: A Novel
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 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21425079?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 2 of 5 stars 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 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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Olivia's review
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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 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 t...more 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 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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message 1: by Bess

07/22/2008 12:34PM

"And I am filled with enough hate myself and I don't need to read some fake book about hate."

Hahahahaha... you're my new role model.