Wow, I’m really reading a lot of books lately. This is the 3rd in a month! It may not sound like much, but to me it is. There was a time when I loved to read, but these past few years I have only seen a few ones that interested me enough to buy them, but ultimately never finished them. And these were books I couldn’t wait to start reading such as Battle Royale and Train Man (almost made it to the end with this one), but no matter how great they were I simply couldn’t finish them. But now it seems like I can, so I better read as much as possible and maybe even finish the aforementioned two. Fortunately I have a fourth one coming soon. It’s called The Alphabet of Manliness by Maddox, the guy behind the ingenious website called TheBestPageInTheUniverse.com, which I’m sure a lot of people have either heard of or had the pleasure of reading themselves. Very entertaining stuff, now if only the book lives up to that.
Anyway. This post is about The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen.
A couple of weeks ago I read an article about this book in a newspaper. It talked about how it was quite the controversy in the US and how it has just been translated into Danish. I bought the English version (of course) and read it in a few days. Not much happens actually, but somehow its brutal honesty is fascinating. The book doesn’t hold back, that’s for sure - everything the unnamed main character is thinking about women is explained in details, so it’s definitely for the faint of heart! It’s a very good book and I’ll definitely read it again sometime. To be honest I don’t mind that it’s a quick read either - I guess it really does cater to men. :-P
But then again women should have a look at this too, because even though some stuff is exaggerated for effect there really is some truth in here.
If you know any books that are considered controversial or deals with pop culture in one way or another, then please recommend me some books in the comments, because, well… those are the books I tend to like.
The accepted image of the Average American man as created by Oprah, Dr. Phil, network sitcoms, and a slew of other mass media outlets is one of an oafish retard happy to swallow down gallons of his significant other’s crap in the hopes of being allowed to have sex with her once a week or at least watch some football.
The unnamed narrator of AVERAGE AMERICAN MALE is in his late twenties, has an unimportant job, plays video games, and hangs out with his friends and his girlfriend. But that’s not all. He unabashedly reveals every thought that goes through his head, from his sexual fantasies involving his annoying girlfriend and other women he encounters, his masturbation sessions while watching porn, and his disgust with his annoying girlfriend and a majority of the people he comes across.
In the course of this hilariously honest book, our narrator suffers through a relationship with his fat-assed girlfriend until he finds the perfect girl. But when he moves into the new relationship, he slowly learns that all women are pretty much the same, that man’s true desires will never be fulfilled, and the decision between living life alone or biting the marriage bullet must be made.
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