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Title: The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle ISBN: 0-679-75245-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A rollercoaster trip of emotions
Comment: I first read this book when I was about nine or ten. My mom and older sisters had already dog-eared our copy and finally saw fit to pass it down to me. I read it, laughed uproarously, and wasn't aware of 90% of the culture, drug, or sexual references in the book. I still found it funny enough to read repeatedly throughout middle adn high school, and throughout college and graduate. Of course, as I got older, I understood more and more and found The Fan Man to be as sad as it was funny.
Horse Badorties is a loser who knows he's a loser and this makes his life that much more poignant, hilarious, and pathetic. He's on the fast track going nowhere and intends to enjoy every moment of it. He's the burnout hippie who hasn't escaped his languishing identity; he's capable of great things, but never follows through. He's a skilled musician, a magnetic group leader, and a charismatic con artist, yet never takes himself seriously enough to achieve the bliss he's looking for -- until he gives up his main ambition to watch the sunset over the Hudson River.
Like the sunset, his contentment is also short lived and leads inevitably to his perpetual dark dissatisfaction with everything he does (with the exception of his girl's choir). Yet I still find myself laughing at him and with him. Every time I read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: This is the funniest book that I have ever read. Horse Badorites is a character who cannot finish any of his beginings. He will be walking down the street and he will say something that he needs to do then he will say, "But first, man, I must..." This book is so good because the author never seems to say or hint that the herb smoking, worthless object buying, racsist behavior is in any way a bad lifestyle, just an interesting one. If you liked this book, try The Bear Went Over the Mountain, by the same author. A must read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Eccentric journey into the mind of an insightful nut
Comment: Okay, this is a weird book. And it's nice to add a weird book to your repetoire every once in a while; shake things up. Well. Horse Badorties, our hero, is a brain-fried crazy hippie in New York in the 70s. In this book you get to go on his tripped out journey as he gathers the detritus of civilization, from giant hot-dog stand umbrellas to old air-raid sirens, and passes through life. This book really just injects you into his mind. You are him, and you get to follow his strange, ADD thought processes. If this book delivers a lesson, it is just that Horse, strange as he is, is a survivor. Somehow, with no dependable source of income, he manages to get everything he wants. He gets an apartment, a trip to the inner workings of the Museum of Natural History, and a fantastic success of a Love Concert. Horse floats through life and for him nothing ever can go wrong. His perspective is very unique, and crazy, but none the less valuable. Buying two music boxes from a cheap-o toy store, he walks five yards from the store and they both break. Instead of being distressed by this, however, he is inspired. Now they are holy objects, their tiny clockwork dancers waiting for eternity for music that will never come. Now they play the music of Nirvana.
Also, you have to read this for the Dorky-Day chapter. Trust me. Just trust me.
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Title: Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle ISBN: 1569247145 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fata Morgana by William Kotzwinkle, Joe Servello ISBN: 1569247870 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Bear Went Over the Mountain : A Novel by William Kotzwinkle ISBN: 0805054383 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Exile by William Kotzwinkle, William Kotzwinkler ISBN: 1569247285 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Walter, the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray, Audrey Colman ISBN: 1583940537 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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