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Read new romance book reviews, posts from your favorite authors, samples, exciting digital first publications and e-book specials. Apr 26, Sarah rated it it was amazing. Will she kill him? I wanted to rate this book lower because how seemingly unnecessarily graphic the content was; however, I realized that would not be fair to the author or the book. Kultgen never loses your attention with the plot, and he ensures the novel is believable although you won't believe it.
This book is definitely a good read, but it does get extremely racy. And yes, it is okay to laugh. Jan 19, Mike Crews rated it really liked it. Have you ever read a book so terrible that it's actually good? The language is vulgar. The content is filthy. The characters are deplorable.
Yet, I found myself turning pages faster with each chapter. I wanted to rate this book lower because how seemingly unnecessarily graphic the content was; however, I realized that would not be fair to the author or the book. Chad Kultgen does a great job of telling the story through three unique 1st person perspectives. The story is presented to the reader i Have you ever read a book so terrible that it's actually good? The story is presented to the reader in such a manner that shows all the narrators are unreliable and think that everyone else is in the wrong.
In fact, they all play their own disgusting part in this devastating tale of lost loves, relationships and opportunities. In a way, these characters deserve what they get, and likewise, deserve each other. This book has no hero. If you need a hero you can root for, pick up a comic book. I have read reviews criticizing Kultgen's misogynistic depiction of women in this book, and those reviews are not far from the mark.
Though, I do believe that Kultgen equally offends his own gender in the telling of this tale. Kultgen shows the disgusting nature of how some young man carry themselves and how they treat the women in their lives.
Others have stated that Kultgen is perpetuating negative college stereotypes, but the reality is The believable reality of this obscene story is what impacts the reader and forces you to think about these awful people long after you close the book for the final time. Prepare to be angry at every character in this book and enjoy this horror show, train-wreck, roller-coaster ride that is "The Lie. Jan 18, Kyle Mccarthy rated it liked it.
There's nothing decent, good, or redeemable about ANY of the three main characters. But that's exactly the point of the book. For the entire story, you outright hate these people and want them to get what's coming to them. In the end they do, and it's still unsatisfying. Like a page car accident you can't stop watching. Oh, and Mr. Kultgen has a real penchant for misogyny. Jan 25, Alixandra rated it liked it Shelves: book-club. What the fuck did I just read.
Jan 17, Dennis Holland rated it really liked it. Unapologetic sleaze. May 10, Juan Araizaga rated it liked it. In this book we have the virgin guy, the slutty girl, and the motherfucking rich boy. It's undeniable, that the book has so many good parts, so many points of view, and so much of a fragmented society, that bends but doesnt break. The situation here also are so american, sorority, sex, rape, university, sometimes i just feel like an archetype.
I wanna keep reading about the author, but maybe is it enough for the rest of the year, it is not faul of the book, was mine, for hoping so much. Nov 20, Lily rated it really liked it. It's another Mr. Kultgen success. A very fast smooth read. I read it in one go this weekend, but not because it has no substance. There's one thing that made me "chase" it.
There is one "terrible thing", a calamity alluded to right from the start, and it wasn't revealed till the very end. I wasn't going to stop until I found out what it was. And I wasn't disappointed. Once again, Mr. CK did not show us his philosophical side till the very end, and only entertained us with a fast paced story.
I fe It's another Mr. I felt keenly for the three characters. They were very well drawn. One suffered from love, one was lost and frustrated and took it out in sex, one was just vain and empty. Unlike Average American Male, Lie is much more serious in tone. There is much more pain, and painted very clearly in every action the characters took. Everything unfolds before our eyes, and we can see the story hurtling towards a bitter end.
Ah, but that is the best part, we'll never guess what happens. It's a big surprise. The language is also much stronger than Average Amer. Anger is well depicted by dirtiness and sex, which is clever. With the story, Mr. K again shows us his main point, the vapid heartlessness of young women and the trapped succumbing of young men. I've mentioned both authors before so maybe I'm being redundant.
But it's an amazing coincidence. First of all the titles, Liar - The Lie. Then both books are written in the same technique, the stories are told by the characters' inner voices. The Lie has three voices, and Liar has two. Both books are successful in this regard. The style of language of both is of a school like no other authors'. Philosophically they are both illustrating the depravity of the world. Only difference is, The Lie is serious and sad, and Liar is fun and joyful.
Both books are about tangled relationships, though the stories are completely different. Liar is also about a woman in her 30s, which could almost be the girl in The Lie, getting nastier after a bit of life experience.
It was really quite interesting to compare the two and see the similarity and difference. Apr 05, Mitchel Broussard rated it it was amazing Shelves: contemporary. Hilariously evil, extremely perverted and insanely addicting. The last or so pages are filled to the brim with devious plots and dirty tricks and it all works just so well. The characters really change and, well not grow, throughout the novel, but develop new personalities. I, literally, can not believe how it ended.
It has, also, one of the most effective points of view I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I mean i know I've read a book like this sometime Hilariously evil, extremely perverted and insanely addicting. I mean i know I've read a book like this sometime before, it just worked so pitch-perfect for this one. Each character is retelling events of their four year stay at SMU, from an undisclosed period in the future.
So, for example, when we first see Kyle meeting Heather, Kyle narrates "Little did i know, she would be the end of me. Will she kill him? How does she ruin his life? They are so happy, what the hell is going to go wrong? And i loved the alternating chapter perspectives of each character. I know i admit this for every book that uses this device, its just this kind of book is built for it. And it doesn't make you feel like you are a 9 year old like some books that put the name of the character on every chapter header.
It assumes you're smart enough to know the difference between each character, and you really can tell. Everyone has their own slang, mannerisms and sense of humor. If you're looking for an edgy, hilarious, and witty tale of 3 college friends who want to ruin each others lives, look no further. But be warned, this book is filled with more dirty and hilariously disgusting sexual activities than you can wave a used condom at.
And I'm not even embarrassed to say i loved it so much. At this point, I'm generally hatereading these books after being horrified by The Average American male. I found The Lie to be better on a whole, since it actually has a coherent plot that isn't completely centered on how terrible women apparently are, but still. Long and short, the book alternates between three people: a person Brett who could very well be a college age protagonist from Average , his best friend who is a good guy even though Brett does everything in his power to try and change At this point, I'm generally hatereading these books after being horrified by The Average American male.
Long and short, the book alternates between three people: a person Brett who could very well be a college age protagonist from Average , his best friend who is a good guy even though Brett does everything in his power to try and change that, and Heather, a girl that Brett eventually dates. Things just get more and more terrible until there's basically nothing redeeming left about anyone involved, and it's just tragic. There's hatred of college, hatred of women, of prostitutes, of sororities, of business, or And yet the book was still really readable, and actually had moments in it that The Average American Male did not.
If the book could cut back on so much of the outrageous offensive stuff, it might actually be something that could be recommended to other people. Instead, it's like an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossed with the movie Very Bad Things without showing the self-awareness necessary to ensure the audience understands that this is satire or a joke.
It's kind of unfortunate. Mar 25, Natalie rated it did not like it. I hate this book. What irks me more than anything is that I paid full price for this piece of crap. Now, I know that many people dislike this book because of the misogyny, but that wasn't the problem that I had with it not that I like misogyny. The problem for me was that all the characters are based on the same boring stereotypes that have been around forever.
I mean, if you're going to have sterotypical characters, at least do something new with them. And to make it worse, none of these char I hate this book. And to make it worse, none of these characters are at all likeable.
There have been books that I've read where the protagnists were't necessarily likeable people, and I've still managed to enjoy the story, because of the plot, setting etc. That was not the case here. In short, there really wasn't anything that I liked about this. And I want my money back. Jul 09, Dion rated it did not like it. I understand that The Lie is supposed to be edgy and shocking, but it just comes off sounding pathetic, like it was written by a misogynistic, sexually-frustrated year-old boy who was turned down one too many times for a date to junior prom.
Dec 24, Dana Perich rated it it was ok. I'm really conflicted on this book. I am giving it two stars simply for the fact that it kept me engaged the whole time. I don't know if I couldn't put it down because it was that interesting or just because I really wanted to be over and done with it.
I read it in about 6 hours. The other reason I gave it two stars is because I actually kind of liked the ending of the book. Here are my main issues with this book and why I gave it 2 stars. I'm not easily offended. I make jokes about having sex wi I'm really conflicted on this book. I make jokes about having sex with my dead grandfather like it's no one's business, so Kultgen's vulgar depictions of sex are just that.
I think it actually just made me sad, not mad. In this case, while it's just a fictional character, Brett is a complete asshole. Brett views women as simply a means to an end and repeatedly mentions how much he despises them and basically uses them for sex. He defiles them in many ways but has a complete hatred for them. He has them do vile things and doesn't care about how they feel, etc.
He repeatedly mentions that women will do anything with him because of his money, his father's status, etc. What made me sad about this, is that I could actually picture some men I know reading this and thinking this was acceptable.
And while these men are more round and developed then Brett because they're real people and not a fictional character, it's very obvious they think men are superior just like Brett and the author, Kultgen. I actually had to put the book down at page 73 for a good half hour. I was honestly just saddened and felt surrounded by negativity because I know there are people like this.
I called my husband because I simply wanted to talk to a man that I knew was a good person and didn't share in these views. Later on in this book there is actually a 3 way scene depicted where Heather, one of the main characters, takes drugs of her own will but clearly is roofied or drugged in some way unknown to her and then gives her boyfriend a blowjob while his friend forcibly has sex with her.
She doesn't recognize this as rape even though she cries and doesn't want to have sex for a long while, she even calls this ex-boyfriend much later in the book and tries to get back with him because she's so desperate, and then accuses the "good guy" of rape. It's just screwed up. I really hope people reading this recognize and will call this what it is - rape. After taking a break, I spent another 5 hours or so finishing the book. As I mentioned before, I think it was more because I'm reading this for a book club and I wanted to finish it; I knew if I put it down, I may struggle to pick it back up because of how it made me feel so sad.
After finishing it, some of my bigger literary complaints are the use of flat and stereotyped characters. Two of the three main characters, Brett and Heather, have no character development and are just terrible people with no redeeming qualities. Brett is a rich woman-hating asshole who is just like the peers he says he hates so much. Heather is stupid, wants an Mrs. The secondary characters also have no growth.
There is Kyle's freshman roommate who is described as a stereotypical "Christian" who says things like "if Christ wants it to happen, it'll happen," something in years of being in the church I've rarely heard said. There are the sorority sisters who just want to be engaged before they graduate or their lives are over, the frat guys who drug girls and force them to have three ways, etc. Even the girls Brett continuously calls whores and sleeps with are overall flat characters who will do almost anything he asks because he's just so hot and so rich.
The only character we really see change is Kyle. Even then, his change is so drastic it's unrealistic. He goes from being this "nerdy," very naive and in love character to having alcoholism, screwing everything in sight, and planning revenge on Heather for being a terrible girlfriend.
The only redeemable person in this whole novel is a secondary character, Erin and even she is depicted as pretty desperate because she's willing to take Kyle back. The character development is my biggest complaint about this book from a literary standpoint.
From a personal standpoint, it just made me sad that there are people out there that find it acceptable to behave like this or hold these views toward women, toward relationships, toward Christians, etc.
I would hope most people in the world are intelligent and can separate that a label doesn't define someone, that not all women are the same, not all Christians are the same, etc. One bad experience with a woman doesn't define all relationships. One person who tells you you're going to hell doesn't speak for a whole religion.
If we all lived this way the world would be a sad place. On a positive literary note, I do enjoy books that show multiple perspectives and switch between character point of views. I didn't mind the ending because everyone was a terrible person because they were so two-dimensional. I was happy that all of their lives were kind of shitty. Some of the techniques listed in The Lie may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.
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