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| Original Title: | The Fan Man |
| ISBN: | 0679752455 (ISBN13: 9780679752455) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Horse Badorties |
| Setting: | New York City, New York,1970(United States) |
William Kotzwinkle
Paperback | Pages: 191 pages Rating: 4.07 | 1244 Users | 152 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Fan Man |
| Author | : | William Kotzwinkle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 191 pages |
| Published | : | May 31st 1994 by Vintage (first published 1974) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor |
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The Fan Man is a comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in the first-person by the narrator, Horse Badorties, a down-at-the-heels hippie living a life of drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City c. 1970. The book is written in a colorful, vernacular "hippie-speak" and tells the story of the main character's hapless attempts to put together a benefit concert featuring his own hand-picked choir of 15-year-old girls. Horse is a somewhat tragic, though historically humorous, character with echoes of other famous characters in popular culture such as Reverend Jim Ignatowski of Taxi fame. In his inability to follow anything through to completion he displays symptoms of attention-deficit disorder though this could equally be drug-induced. His defining characteristic is his joy in renting or commandeering apartments which he fills with street-scavenged junk articles until full to bursting he moves on to his next "pad". The name "fan man" is a reference to another of his traits; the collecting of fans of all shapes and sizes.Rating Containing Books The Fan Man
Ratings: 4.07 From 1244 Users | 152 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books The Fan Man
An amazingly simple story of one man's dream. Now if only he could remember what that dream was.... Oh yeah it was chicks, it's been a long time since Horse Badorties got any chicks..... no it was the fans! The beautiful sound of the fan choir man.... no man, I need to get a sandwich, a hot-dog, some vegeterian food, some meat.... no I should lie here and get high.... no man! It was the chicks, man I want a chick. If you thought Fear and Loathing was a trip you aint seen nothing yet!!Every epoch needs its literary memorial And The Fan Man is an ideal memorial to the fabulously far out epoch of psychedelia.I just woke up, man. Horse Badorties just woke up and is crawling around in the sea of abominated filthiness, man, which he calls home. Walking through the rooms of my pad, man, through broken glass and piles of filthy clothes from which I shall select my wardrobe for the day.The Fan Man isnt just a book it is a highly hallucinatory psychedelic trip.Open satchel take out
If you have a well tuned sense of the absurd, you will love this book. I have read it two or three times, and the hapless, but completely sincere main character still makes me laugh out loud. William Kotzwinkle wrote the original novel on which the movie "E.T." was based, but this one is nothing like that! Forward to the tenth edition was written by Kurt Vonnegut.
hilarious, inspiring, awe-inspiring, perfect. like a mad rocket dancing its way toward the sun.this book makes me want to write a novel.
The Fan Man has been in my top five list of favorite books since a brave sixth grade English teacher read it to us (saying, "beep! beeeeeeeeeeeep! beep! beep! beep! BEEP!" to edit out any words not any bad words the public school district might censure) as an example of "descriptive writing."Since that time, I've owned three copies, because for some reason, people always end up jacking them.The premise of the book is loosely the first-person account of Horse Badorties, just your average dude in
One of the funniest books I've ever read. If you don't laugh outloud, your brain is on novocaine, and you may be in worse shape than the stumbling bumbling anti-hero of this outrageous and brilliant farce. One thing for sure, if you read this book, you will never forget Horse Badorties.
I am just so sick of reading books that include rape. So many, just in the last couple of weeks, and on top of current events, it's too fucking much. I'm tired of being barraged by it, of having it be a sidenote thrown into a book that is otherwise hilarious. Of having it treated lightly, off-handedly, mostly in connection to how it affects the male main characters. There are very few books that I've read recently where I think it's been handled well.Note: The rest of this review has been
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