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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)

The Fan Man

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	:	Anniversary 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.

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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

From the author of E.T. this is the most wonderful, weird book I have ever read. I never tire of it. If you have one of the 15 copies I have lent to people over the years please send it back.It is described as the quintessential novel about the dusking of the age of Aquarius. Horse Bedorties is scouring the city looking for teenage girls to sing in his love chorus which he rehearses in the church in his neighborhood. There is some serious brilliant insanity going on here. It leaves you wondering

I haven't laughed this gleefully at a book since I read Gravity's Rainbow (I have a weakness for zaniness, admittedly). Horse Badorties is one of the most singularly unique and memorable characters in literature, reminiscent of later free-spirited slackers like The Dude and Kramer, but with his own particular brand of lunacy. If he were a real person, the TV show Hoarders could devote an entire season to him, if not give him his own spin-off. His overriding obsession is finding 15-year-old girls

I have read this book every couple of years for the past 30 years

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 was a real surprise. I was ready put it down after reading the first pages thinking that it was one of the stupidest things I had ever read. But as I continued on - starting to enjoy Horse Badorties inner monolog with every sentence ending with 'man', I soon realized that this was a masterpiece. Definetly one of the best books I have ever read!

This book is gross. Sexist. Fucked up.I also loved it. It's absurd, sublimely stupid, strangely buoyant.