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The Average American Male: A Novel Paperback – March 13, 2007
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The nameless narrator of this dismal debut is a cynical 20-something living an empty, oversexed existence in L.A. He gets laid more often than he masturbates, plays video games, goes to the gym, sizes up every bitch in sight and, understandably, hates Casey, his vapid wannabe-actress girlfriend who tricks him into agreeing to marry her. He is not happy about this. Adding to his reluctance is his burgeoning "relationship" with hottie Alyna, a UCLA student who-just as Casey is an exaggerated caricature of What Men Don't Want-is the Dream Girl who likes video games and porn-style sex. (Also, Casey has a "fat ass" whereas Alyna has a "perfect ass.") [...] Despite the book's purported "brutal honesty," the premise is essentially: guys like sex and dislike cuddling.
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“It’s so primal, so dangerous, it might be the most ingenious book I’ve ever read.” (Josh Kilmer-Purcell, New York Times bestselling author of I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS)
“[B]uy Chad’s book. It’s a blueprint of how the mind--and penis--of a typical American male works.” (Maddox, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALPHABET OF MANLINESS)
“[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)
“[B]uy Chad’s book. It’s a blueprint of how the mind--and penis--of a typical American male works.” (Maddox, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALPHABET OF MANLINESS)
“[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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98 of 109 people found the following review helpful
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BrainWash89
on September 11, 2011
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For a good portion of the book, I was very entertained. But on like day 3 of reading out of maybe 5 days, I suddenly was bored with it. I realized that this guy is a pretty serious scum bag, and it was just no longer funny. His actions and thoughts are concepts that us men like to joke about, not actually do. I found myself very depressed by the end of it. No man thinks about sex as much as Chad Kultgen does. Women who find themselves reading this: I'm sorry. Do not associate this man as being the Average American Male. We're better than this.
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145 of 175 people found the following review helpful
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Sam Thursday
on April 15, 2011
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It's worth your time to examine the quality of the spelling in the positive reviews of this book in order to form an opinion of what marketers like to call "the target demographic." Ask yourself: do I fit into this group? Do I want to? If you want to read something with a lot of unapologetic masculinity lying around for you to slip in, by all means read Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" or "Choke." If you want to read something with a ton of sex, please treat yourself to Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom." If you want a good, old-fashioned story with great male and female characters and plenty of sex and violence, may I recommend George R. R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones?" Under no circumstances, however, should you read this book.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Spoiler alert: this review tells the whole story! Even the twist ending! If you don't want it ruined for you, stop reading!
Chad Kultgen's The Average American Male is a horrible book. That being said, it's is a rather entertaining read. How can that be? Let me put it this way, every man in the world should read this book as an example of what never to be, then it should be rounded up and burned Fahrenheit-451 style. Kultgen's book is a beautiful exaggeration of the worst thoughts a late-teens boy has ever had. As such, no women should ever be allowed the glimpse into the terrible mind of a young male exaggerated in such a fashion. This book is the reason for militant feminism and must be read with the greatest of care. It must be known, this is not how men really are. The protagonist is clearly an exaggeration of filthy ideas and crass humor that no just god would ever create in a real human being. However, it is sometimes amusing to read about someone doing the mean stuff that you would never do yourself. That being said, let me give you a basic summary of the plot.
The book begins with an "average" American male who is actually a little better off than average, has a college degree, and lives in Hollywood. The unnamed man is in a relationship with a girl that he is plainly bored with. He is overly judgmental of his girlfriend's looks and thus very disappointed with her appearance. He doesn't get sex as much as he wants and feels that his girl should spend more time doing fun things like playing video games and less time doing things like standing in line for a Marie Osmond book signing (which you could imagine would be a bad place for a loud-mouth, ass of a man like him).Read more ›
Chad Kultgen's The Average American Male is a horrible book. That being said, it's is a rather entertaining read. How can that be? Let me put it this way, every man in the world should read this book as an example of what never to be, then it should be rounded up and burned Fahrenheit-451 style. Kultgen's book is a beautiful exaggeration of the worst thoughts a late-teens boy has ever had. As such, no women should ever be allowed the glimpse into the terrible mind of a young male exaggerated in such a fashion. This book is the reason for militant feminism and must be read with the greatest of care. It must be known, this is not how men really are. The protagonist is clearly an exaggeration of filthy ideas and crass humor that no just god would ever create in a real human being. However, it is sometimes amusing to read about someone doing the mean stuff that you would never do yourself. That being said, let me give you a basic summary of the plot.
The book begins with an "average" American male who is actually a little better off than average, has a college degree, and lives in Hollywood. The unnamed man is in a relationship with a girl that he is plainly bored with. He is overly judgmental of his girlfriend's looks and thus very disappointed with her appearance. He doesn't get sex as much as he wants and feels that his girl should spend more time doing fun things like playing video games and less time doing things like standing in line for a Marie Osmond book signing (which you could imagine would be a bad place for a loud-mouth, ass of a man like him).Read more ›
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46 of 57 people found the following review helpful
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on March 5, 2011
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This book offers little in terms of literary merit or entertainment value. A chore to read, a lack of humor, a bland plot, one-dimensional characters. If satire is the author's intended goal, he does a very poor job accomplishing said goal.
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32 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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Charles Senescall
on April 20, 2007
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I really, REALLY wanted to like this novel. I really did. I paid the full price of admission and I set aside an entire Saturday... and I read it straight through, too. Cover-to-cover in maybe 3-4 hours. I gave it a truly fair reading -- and parts of it, a re-read. And, the thing is... that I wish I didn't have to say this... because even now, even after I've read it, I STILL want to like it more than I do... but so much here is simply missing.
Essentially, the novel, after an astonishgly strong start, slowly loses the force of its raw and vibrant open... and you realize that what passed for striking originality at the beginning is quite frankly the writer's only gimmick -- and it IS a gimmick, however likable the gimmick is -- and the dissapointment grows as the novel... um, climaxes.
I hate to say it, but this is strictly juvenilia. I found myself re-writing it in my minds-eye as I read it -- the thought did occur to me that a filmed version would be a MASSIVE home run if a guy like Quinten Tarantino ever got his hands on it.
I will, however, still be looking forward to Kultgen's next book.
Essentially, the novel, after an astonishgly strong start, slowly loses the force of its raw and vibrant open... and you realize that what passed for striking originality at the beginning is quite frankly the writer's only gimmick -- and it IS a gimmick, however likable the gimmick is -- and the dissapointment grows as the novel... um, climaxes.
I hate to say it, but this is strictly juvenilia. I found myself re-writing it in my minds-eye as I read it -- the thought did occur to me that a filmed version would be a MASSIVE home run if a guy like Quinten Tarantino ever got his hands on it.
I will, however, still be looking forward to Kultgen's next book.
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20 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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on November 7, 2011
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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. The book is not as funny as it claims to be and the vocabulary seems to come straight from and 8th graders mouth. This book is for that guy who has a girlfriend (most likely 5-8 years younger than him: like one of those douche bags who as a high school senior dated freshmen girls ) but lacks ambition to do or acquire anything else do your brain a favor and skip this trash.
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