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For his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hassler: philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade earlier. Marr encounters numerous obstacles, as other researchers turn up evidence of Hassler's personal life that is deemed simply too unpleasant and disillusioning for the rarified air of academe. On another front, Marr finds himself increasingly drawn toward more shocking, depraved sexual entanglements with the homeless men of his neighborhood, until it begins to seem that Hassler's death might hold some key to his own life as a gay man in the age of AIDS. As John Marr learns more about the enigma that was Timothy Hassler, his own increasing sexual debasement leads him to a point where his and the philosopher's lives collide violently.…

Surely Samuel R. Delany's most graphic and unsettling novel, The Mad Man is a provocative look at contemporary social and sexual outsiders.

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Title	:	The Mad Man
Author	:	Samuel R. Delany
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 520 pages
Published	:	May 7th 2002 by Voyant Pub (first published June 28th 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Literature. GLBT. Queer

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i am about three-fifths of the way through this one and have lost steam completely. i admire your intentions, sam, but the hardcore pornographic passages get a little redundant and the plot is not gripping enough to keep me reading.

Imagine if 120 Days of Sodom was consensual and had a happy ending, and was set in New York City. My rough estimate is that this books about half sex by volume, maybe more. There's a lot of philosophy, and also a murder mystery. If you don't have the stomach to read about explicit sex acts that focus on the dirty (as in unwashed, not immoral) aspects of human sexuality, then this is not the book for you. There's no way for me to really tell you about what the book is about without myself getting

Are you abaseball player?Or a cocksucker?Another reviewer wrote that, unless the reader has "very specialized tastes," he or she should avoid Delany's The Mad Man by any means necessary. The comment made me wonder if, somehow, Delany published another version of this novel at some point -- not merely the first, unedited edition I'm already aware of, but an interstitial manuscript that reads like a complete negative image of The Mad Man, the one I've been wildly consuming, and yes, even sucking,

Nowhere near as intelligent as the Marquis's monstrosities, nor as sexy as any of Tom of Finland's drawings. This is indeed a self-proclaimed underdog, as it insists in being grotesque & antiromantic, unintelligent & v. v. verrrry redundant. There's absolutely no charm here!The story tells of an uberkinky student who partakes in disgusting acts with the hobos of the streets of NYC. Tackling incredibly difficult issues (S&M, homelessness, homosexuality) and doing not much with them is

This book was an extremely tough, but ultimately satisfying, read. It went beyond what I thought I could accept about sexual kinks and then even further. I actually had to put the book down several times to check in with myself. It was a real direct challenge to the openminded person I thought I was and I made IMMENSE progress in developing my opinions and stances on the issues presented as I read it. It also sucked you right into the pressurized world of a writer like Delany and then turned the

Just what is Delany? Poet...Philosopher...Pornographer? Hell if I know. More reading is required, but not before dinner.There will be no review of this book, other than the star rating.

My Delany reviews repeat themselves: This is not the best book to start with. (Though I did think it was great.) Here are some other suggestions:Hogg is also explicitly pornographic and set in a contemporary world. It's shorter. It's more violent, but roughly on par as far as gross/nasty/vulgar sex with The Mad Man and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.Times Square Red, Time Square Blue covers some similar ground around Delany's experiences of gay sex, porn theaters, and the HIV/AIDS