Hope for a Satiric Story Quickly Beaten to Death




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Other than correct spelling and a certain facility for avoiding run-on sentences, there's little to set [Chad Kultgen]'s work apart from a frat boy's blog.

Written in sub-sub-sub-Jay McInerney first-person, present-tense style, it details every random thought that crosses the AAM's mind, or what passes for his mind. These thoughts mostly revolve around female anatomy (breasts of strangers, good; the "fat ass" of his girlfriend Casey, bad) and what he'd like to do with those anatomical parts (or what you couldn't pay him to do).

Kultgen is playing it absolutely irony-free, and what's really disturbing is that you get the feeling he thinks he's doing the world a service: Hey, ladies, don't fool yourselves -- no man will ever really consider you more than a collection of orifices.

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Hope for a Satiric Story Quickly Beaten to Death

The Average American Male

By Chad Kultgen

HarperPerennial, 246 pages, $17.50

Reviewed by Jill Wilson

AT first blush (and that is the appr...

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