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A review by buer
The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen
2.0
This is one of those books that is so outrageously repulsive that you have to keep reading after you've started because you KNOW that it can't get any more offensive. But somehow it does and then it's just the proverbial bloody car crash that makes your stomach turn ceaselessly, but the pages keep turning right along with it because the prose is easy and the things he's saying are so awful that you can't look away...you can't put it down.
I would never suggest this book to anyone. Ever. But despite being blindsided continuously by what often felt like really unfair stereotypes against men (by a man, ridiculously enough) every once in awhile Kultgen does say something that resonatea or feels true in a disturbingly candid way.
Is this book lude? Yes. Is this book sexist? Yes. Is this book mean and gross and an extreme exaggeration of everything awful about relationships and gender stereotypes that no one likes think about? Omigaw, yes.
But if you can avoid taking it too seriously and skip the end so you are fooled into believing that some kind of character development happens (spoilers)...it's at the very least a page turner. Just probably not the kind of page turner you should waste your time on.
Yes, I'm supposed to be writing my thesis right now.
I would never suggest this book to anyone. Ever. But despite being blindsided continuously by what often felt like really unfair stereotypes against men (by a man, ridiculously enough) every once in awhile Kultgen does say something that resonatea or feels true in a disturbingly candid way.
Is this book lude? Yes. Is this book sexist? Yes. Is this book mean and gross and an extreme exaggeration of everything awful about relationships and gender stereotypes that no one likes think about? Omigaw, yes.
But if you can avoid taking it too seriously and skip the end so you are fooled into believing that some kind of character development happens (spoilers)...it's at the very least a page turner. Just probably not the kind of page turner you should waste your time on.
Yes, I'm supposed to be writing my thesis right now.