- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: HarperPerennial; First Edition edition (5 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061231673
- ISBN-13: 978-0061231674
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,100,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[A] brilliant send-up of the way ...the male point of view has been misrepresented by militant feminists."--Toby Young, New York Times bestselling author of HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
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An offensive, in-your-face, brutally honest and completely hilarious look at male inner life and sexual fantasy--sure to be one of the most controversial books of the year.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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From the very first line to the very last, this book made me feel unclean...it also made me laugh out-loud many times, cringe with disgust, blush with shame and left me with the lingering question, is this how some men really think or is this book some brilliant satire of the way some women think men think...I don't know and maybe that's for the best. I do know you should read this book.
The main male character in this may seem reprehensible to many. He judges every woman he sees by appearance, imagines how they might serve him in a sexual way, what their faults are and how they might get ugly in the future. He's horrible, nasty, rude and cruel but brutally honest and direct in his way of viewing the world. He is the anti-venom to the cobra-bite of rom-coms and cutesy, overly sentimental dross that attacks best-sellers lists and the top ten at the box-office. It's too easy to say this book is misogynistic with it's portrayal of the female characters and discount it as such, but I didn't find that. Just as some might say this is way some men think and feel all superior, then you must say that this is the way some women act and realize it goes both ways.
Chad Kultgen fills each page with bitter wit, scathing humour and brutal observation which makes for a highly entertaining, funny and enjoyably uncomfortable original read. Thank you.
The main male character in this may seem reprehensible to many. He judges every woman he sees by appearance, imagines how they might serve him in a sexual way, what their faults are and how they might get ugly in the future. He's horrible, nasty, rude and cruel but brutally honest and direct in his way of viewing the world. He is the anti-venom to the cobra-bite of rom-coms and cutesy, overly sentimental dross that attacks best-sellers lists and the top ten at the box-office. It's too easy to say this book is misogynistic with it's portrayal of the female characters and discount it as such, but I didn't find that. Just as some might say this is way some men think and feel all superior, then you must say that this is the way some women act and realize it goes both ways.
Chad Kultgen fills each page with bitter wit, scathing humour and brutal observation which makes for a highly entertaining, funny and enjoyably uncomfortable original read. Thank you.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At 230 pages and with each chapter lasting no longer than 4 or 5 pages, this book is an easy read. It's a lazy criticism to say that Chad Kultgen's anonymous narrator merely a Neanderthal misogynist. Sure, he thinks about sex all the time and sure, his morals are pretty dubious, but if you scratch a little beneath the surface you'll find (hopefully) that The Average American Male is a swipe at modern-day representations of men and the male psyche the likes of Oprah tend to patron.
Sexual-political point out of the way, this is actually a rather well-written novel. It's snappy and it's spikey and it's unapologetically rude, which is a breath of fresh air when you look up from your work commute and realise that everyone around you is either reading One Day or Dan Brown's latest atrocity. It's not as concise or as heartfelt as Bukowski, but if you enjoyed Post Office or Women, The Average American Male will probably raise a few wry smiles from you.
My one criticism is that the end seems slightly rushed and contrived. I won't spoil it for you, but you'll know what I mean when you get there.
On a personal level - the part where the mother of his ex sends him a letter telling him what a dreadful person is actually happened to me too. I couldn't help but laugh as I read it on the tube, which caused no end of disproving scowls from my fellow commuters, because they hate to see another person having a good time.
Sexual-political point out of the way, this is actually a rather well-written novel. It's snappy and it's spikey and it's unapologetically rude, which is a breath of fresh air when you look up from your work commute and realise that everyone around you is either reading One Day or Dan Brown's latest atrocity. It's not as concise or as heartfelt as Bukowski, but if you enjoyed Post Office or Women, The Average American Male will probably raise a few wry smiles from you.
My one criticism is that the end seems slightly rushed and contrived. I won't spoil it for you, but you'll know what I mean when you get there.
On a personal level - the part where the mother of his ex sends him a letter telling him what a dreadful person is actually happened to me too. I couldn't help but laugh as I read it on the tube, which caused no end of disproving scowls from my fellow commuters, because they hate to see another person having a good time.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Average American Male is summed up best the author's own words:
"Mom, thanks for always encouraging me to write and be creative. I'm sorry the end result of that encouragement is something you will not want to read".
Superb from start to finish. Laughed out loud many times, Kultgen writes a fantastic rant, especially his diatribe about Opera Winfrey and the 'O' Magazine.
As you should have gleaned from other reviews, this is not one for the easily offended, the big red "Sexually Explicit Content" sticker on the front of the book when it arrived is a further reminder of this. If buying as a gift for any non-male friends I'd seriously consider reading it first!
If you are literate and male then this book will not fail to please.
"Mom, thanks for always encouraging me to write and be creative. I'm sorry the end result of that encouragement is something you will not want to read".
Superb from start to finish. Laughed out loud many times, Kultgen writes a fantastic rant, especially his diatribe about Opera Winfrey and the 'O' Magazine.
As you should have gleaned from other reviews, this is not one for the easily offended, the big red "Sexually Explicit Content" sticker on the front of the book when it arrived is a further reminder of this. If buying as a gift for any non-male friends I'd seriously consider reading it first!
If you are literate and male then this book will not fail to please.
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meh...
Only just started reading this. Its strangely addictive. But, rather than finding it insulting to women, I think this a pretty small minded and bland depiction of a male, and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. M. Matthews
this was a short entertaining read
I was in an airport bookshop and with a baby at home couldn't get into long or worthy books and asked for a short but fun and easy to read novel. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Sean Slippers
Should be re titiled - The Stupid American Male
I can't believe the ratings are so high on this terrible book, it's like the literary equivalent of one of those moronic American college movies where a group of annoying guys go... Read more
Published 9 months ago by roger barlow
Badly written immature book for the 15-20 years old boys
I reckon they've done a great internet based marketing campaign on this book, maybe even going as far as writing reviews in the online shops saying how "shocking" it is and "an... Read more
Published 9 months ago by D. lee
Outrageously entertaining
If you like Showtime's Californication - The First Season [2007] [DVD], you'll like this.
If you met the main character in real life, you may not like him, but you'd... Read more
If you met the main character in real life, you may not like him, but you'd... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Al
To paraphrase - badly - Russell Crowe, if you don't laugh out loud at...
Monty et al.
Lets be clear about one thing. This is not a novel. It makes no claims to be.
Secondly - this has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not you are a... Read more
Lets be clear about one thing. This is not a novel. It makes no claims to be.
Secondly - this has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not you are a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ginola14
terrible
I bought this book under the illusion it was a witty realist view on the everyday thoughts on the "average male mind. Read more
Published 14 months ago by monty
How men think
Isn't it great that someone is daring enough to bring the dark truth of man's psyche to print?
Ladies - are sure you want to know?
Ladies - are sure you want to know?
Published 16 months ago by Mr. N. Brook
No apologies
I'm not even sure if 'Chad Kultgen' is a pseudonym or not. It would be understandable if he wished to maintain some level of anonymity. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Cakeman
Waste of time and paper!
I admit - I had read nothing about this book before I read it, if I had then I probably wouldn't have read it, but I am willing to give any book a go, and considering that this was... Read more
Published 20 months ago by miss_spookiness
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