The self-absorbed narrator continually looks for (and finds) sex
but is terrified, if not emasculated, by the prospect of love.The
plot is, to be charitable, episodic, as the unnamed narrator drifts
from coffee shop to bar to restaurant to UCLA frat party. He gets
engaged but gets out of there fast when he finds he's being
manipulated. He finds another girlfriend and eventually (kind of)
decides to get married. Although he vaguely alludes to having a
job, he has no visible means of support. Still, he goes through the
motions of having a life: He talks to his mother on the phone,
rides on an airplane, plays Mutant Storm Reloaded, Contra and Halo
2, downloads pornography, goes to a gay party, attends a
graduation, insults his potential in-laws. But none of these
activities - perhaps with the exception of video games and
pornography - is significant. What gets him off, so to speak, is
sex, in all its forms. His life is consumed with discussing,
fantasizing about or engaging in sex. The narrator lives by what he
calls the "ninety-eight percent rule," a willingness to have sex
with 98 percent of all women "in the age range of seventeen or so
to dead," though it's never clear what 2 percent he excludes from
his lubricious vision. He fantasizes about every woman he sees,
from a girl in a bar to his girlfriend's mother to the "subway
whore" - in his eyes, all are objects and potential sex partners.
And his narcissism is unbounded. In one spasm of philosophical
journal reflection the narrator writes, "Remind myself that one day
the sun will destroy this planet so nothing really matters." Point
taken.The Main Event of Portnoy's Complaint, without the wit.
(Kirkus Reviews)
The narrator of this novel is in his late 20s, has an unimportant
job, plays video games, & hangs out with his friends &
girlfriend. He unabashedly reveals every thought that goes through
his head, from his sexual fantasies involving his annoying
girlfriend & other women, watching porn, & his disgust with
most people he meets.
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