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.

The controversial bestseller that sparked a Youtube frenzy What is the average male really thinking? Open the pages of Chad Kultgen's novel and you'll get a glimpse at the shocking truth. Taking us on a whirlwind journey through the controversial and yet hilarious thoughts of 'the average American male' Chad Kultgen's anonymous leading character has opinions on everything that life has to throw at a man. Parents, sex, Women's obsession with marriage, weight gain, sex, Marie Osmond, and finally, sex. Not for the faint-hearted, this is the book that that every woman should read, and every man should hide.

A thought-provoking and darkly witty novel about freedom, motherhood, greed, and religion-a surprising new direction from the controversial author of Men, Women & Children and The Average American Male. Chad Kultgen has established himself as one of the most honest and candid chroniclers of human relationships working today. Now, in an eye-opening departure, he turns his gaze on the collision between religious values and human freedoms in American society. She found herself thinking how strange it was that although we are all animals with roughly the same mental capacity-and roughly the same access to information, both general and specific-we can come to such radically different conclusions about the nature of reality. She wondered if it would always be like this, or if at some point in the future a general knowledge base would be accepted by the whole of humanity on which every individual would base their view of existence. She hoped this would be the case and wished she could live to see it. Karen Halloway is a philosophy PhD candidate, struggling to find a dissertation topic strong enough to make a mark on the world. When she discovers that she's pregnant, she finds herself at a crossroads: she has always known that she doesn't want to be a mother, and feels her only choice is to have an abortion, though she knows that both her boyfriend and her highly religious best friend will object. Yet on the way to the clinic, Karen has the epiphany she's been looking for-a way to turn her unexpected situation to her advantage. Fiendishly suspenseful, intellectually provocative, Strange Animals is a surprising novel about freedom, choice, and desperate measures.

The shocking and hilarious novel of dating, sex, and distress in an average American suburb, now a major motion picture directed by Jason Reitman and starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Emma Thompson, and Judy Greer. The only thing more disturbing than junior high school ...is adulthood. The story of one town's complicated network of dating and sex, intimacy and disconnection, online and off-at work, at home, and in school-is now a major motion picture by Jason Reitman, the award-winning director of Up in the Air, Juno, and Thank You for Smoking. Reitman's film, featuring a star-studded cast including Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Emma Thompson, and an attention-getting cast of young newcomers, is based on the novel by cult hero Chad Kultgen, author of The Average American Male, The Average American Marriage, and The Lie. The novel explores the sexual explorations of a handful of junior high school students and their equally dysfunctional parents. From porn-surfing fathers to World of Warcraft-obsessed sons, from competitive cheerleaders to their dissatisfied, misguided mothers, Kultgen clicks open the emotionally treacherous culture we live in.

The author of The Average American Male and The Lie returns with a shocking, salacious, and surprisingly subtle new novel of the average American family. Like Neil Strauss and Nick Hornby, Chad Kultgen has the capacity to enthrall and astonish even the most ardent readers of contemporary literary fiction. In Men, Women, and Children, his incisive vision, unerring prose, and red-light-district imagination are at their most ambitious and surprising, as he explores the sexual pressures of junior high school students and their parents navigating the internet's shared landscape of pornography, blogs, social networking, and its promise of opportunities, escapes, reinvented identities, and unexpected conflicts.

With the publication of "The Average American Male" and the release of the viral videos that promoted it online-videos that shocked the nation - Chad Kultgen became one of the most talked-about authors of 2007. Now, with "The Lie", Kultgen returns with a more searching novel that reaches even deeper into the craven inner workings of some of most depraved minds in America: college students. His subjects are Brett, Kyle, and Heather: the manipulative rich kid with a disdain for women and a closet full of sex toys; his best friend, the brooding science dork who's a secret dynamo in bed; and the social climbing sorority girl who, with one lie, can destroy them all.As Heather makes a play for Brett's money and the ultimate relationship - one that calculatingly leads her into Kyle's bed and heart - Kultgen will have guys second-guessing at just how cutthroat an average sorority girl can be. Told from all three shockingly uncensored points of view, "The Lie" opens up a dark reality where sex is a social tool and status means everything.