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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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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.
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| Title | : | The Fan Man |
| Author | : | William Kotzwinkle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 191 pages |
| Published | : | May 31st 1994 by Vintage (first published 1974) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 1244 Users | 152 ReviewsWeigh Up Of 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!!Entertaining to read, akin to the style of Edward Abbey or other 60's pop/outsider writing. The main character is oddly sympathetic even though he seems to be a sociopath, maybe. His ultimate motives are creative, if handicapped by serious psychological problems compounded by drugs. Interesting portrait of a mind *not* functioning well, told from the perspective of that mind! Plus a goofy story.
This is a vicious satire of narcissism of the hippie philosophy of peace-and-love. Horse Baderite lives as a serial squatter in New Yorks Lower East Side, hoarding cast-off junk, and bumbling through life on the bounties that comes his way from entertaining others with his groovy banter. His obsessive quests propel him toward the door each morning, but there is so much junk in his way and so many mental diversions that intervene that he often gets so tired he has to take a nap before he can get
I've had a series of writing blocks/cramps with my writing project recently, and I realized at least part of my constipation concerning the project was due to the fact I wasn't reading books that would inspire me. Sure, I've been reading some decent books, but none of them have been of the same genre or style to which I aspire to. They've been way out of the ball park, man, so I decided maybe I should take a closer look at some stuff that might benefit in inspiring or guilting my own plucky
I was amazed at how much I rooted for H.P., to get it together and have a victory in his tilted life, so close.
This book is gross. Sexist. Fucked up.I also loved it. It's absurd, sublimely stupid, strangely buoyant.
This book was really good, man. The main character, Horse Badorties, is a drugged out hippie with ADD, constantly smoking the 'healthful herb'. Follow him through the Village, the Lower East Side, The Bowery, Chinatown and Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, as he flows in constant synchronicity with the tao of life, following his crazed dreams one hundred percent. It was not very compelling, as any one page would tell you the story of the whole book. Not much plot, just a continual drug-induced
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