I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
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(Paperback)
- Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
- Pub. Date: January 2006
- ISBN-13: 9780806527284
- Sales Rank: 366
- 288pp
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Synopsis
My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world.
-from the Introduction
Actual reader feedback:
"I am completely baffled as to how you can congratulate yourself for being a womanizer and a raging drunk, or think anyone cares about an idiot like you. Do you really think that exploiting the insecurities of others while getting wasted is a legitimate thing to offer?"
"Thank you, thank you, thank you-for sharing with us your wonderful tales of drunken revelry, for teaching me what it means to be a man, for just existing so I know that there is another option; I too can say `screw the system' and be myself and have fun. My life truly began when I finished reading your stories. Now, when faced with a quandary about what course of action I should take, I just ask myself, `What Would Tucker Do?'-and I do it, and I am a better man for it."
"I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don't believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist."
"I'll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. You're an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I'm inboth shock and awe at how much I want to be you."
"You are the coolest person I can even imagine existing. If you slept with my girlfriend, it'd make me love her more."
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Tucker Max received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1998. He attended Duke Law School on an academic scholarship, where he graduated with a J.D. in 2001 (despite the fact that he neglected to buy any of his textbooks for his final two years and spent part of one semester-while still enrolled in classes-living in Cancun). Tucker is purportedly the reason Duke dropped from 7 to 11 in the USN&WR rankings during his tenure. He currently lives in Los Angeles, and when he isn't drinking or fornicating.
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Tucker Max is Not a Good Manby ErinDenver
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October 31, 2008:
Tucker Max is a disgusting human being. I know he laments as much and thinks its funny but he should be ashame of this book, not proud. Why? First of all, he cannot write. His anecdotes are little bits of self congratulation usually lacking an end or a beginning and focusing on some vulgar way he degraded another human being... and let me say this, I'm all for base hook ups with diseased personalities and calling it for what it is, but he takes pleasure in degrading people that degrade themselves. I don't think that's cool and furthermore, I think it's completely disgusting that I put more money in his pocket.
For my full review, go to: http://thebooksnob.blogspot.com/
Highly recommend it!by Anonymous
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August 25, 2008: In I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max provides a hilarious look at the superficiality governing many young peoples? actions today. His anecdotes about his and his friends? experiences are at once uproarious and disheartening. Tucker Max is the perfect author for a novel like this because he recognizes what a terrible person he is, and therefore has no reason to hold back in his storytelling. Every single one of his stories is side-splittingly funny. They cover a wide range of topics, but Max tends to dwell on those regarding his sexual misadventures and drunken mishaps with friends. In order to show that there is more to his life than partying, Max also throws in a story or two about his work experiences, which prove to be just as funny. The ?work hard(ish), play harder? creed that Tucker Max seems to live by is something to be admired. My one issue with Max?s writing is that he is not selective enough. It seems that he places equal importance on all aspects of the stories. His many descriptions of his life?s events are great, but sometimes he is just as descriptive regarding things of no particular importance. As a result, a couple of his anecdotes ran slightly longer than I would have liked. But nonetheless, they are all memorable. As shallow as this novel seems, a glimmer of depth can be found beneath all of Max?s offensiveness and grotesqueness. Even though most people are not as bad as he is, Max?s treatment of people he views as beneath him still makes people wonder how similar they actually are to Tucker Max. In psychological terms, this is called social comparison. When people encounter individuals that they particularly like or dislike, they look at the actions and values of that individual, then look to themselves, and decide what they should change in themselves. This is exactly what I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell does. Max also conveys the message that life should not be taken too seriously. Even when working a 9 to 5 job, he manages to find ways to entertain himself and have fun. Although he exhibits an extreme of the ?work hard, play harder? ideal, Max promotes any adoption of it at all. Max and his friends are awful people, and despite the fact that I would probably hate to be around them in the midst of their antics, his depiction of their shenanigans is nothing less than hysterical. I highly recommend I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell to anyone who is not easily offended and is interested in a good laugh.
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