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Finished The Lie (2009) by Chad Kultgen
| cock of michael obama | 09/24/25 |
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Date: September 24th, 2025 8:11 PM Author: cock of michael obama I finished reading The Lie (2009) by Chad Kultgen, which was his second novel. He’s mostly known for his fratire books (pre-Me Too era), and I’ve read his others - The Average American Male, The Average American Marriage, “Men, Women, and Children”, Strange Animals and his comic book Darklight. I have not read his How to Win the Bachelor yet, and I’ve never watched his podcast.
The thing about Kultgen is he is a deeply cynical writer and he is wayyyyyy too obsessed with sexual perversion, but his books are easy reads and entertaining, so I have used them as a pallet cleanse occasionally between heavier books, and he is a good writer. However, finishing The Lie I mostly felt dirty and disgusted — he approaches character relationships purely from a power dynamics perspective, and I really don’t feel like I am in that zone mentally, but when you read a good author they put you into their framing anyway (hence the power of symbolism and language). I think it will take a bit of time before I move past his ugly frame. I don’t expect his book on the Bachelor to be quite this bad, though. |