I Hope They Serve Beer In Hellby Tucker Max
Citadel Press Kensington
$12.95
I stop by a bookstore in the DFW airport as I await my return flight to the Middle East and see this book sitting there, beckoning me. I've never heard of Tucker Max before this but I quickly judge the book by its cover because it's a picture of a guy (Tucker Max) with a champagne bottle in his right hand and his left arm around some blonde that I can only assume is a hottie because her face is deleted and replaced with a caption "Your Face Here." The book is 277 pages long from start to finish and is filled with stories of, well, drunken behavior and all that it entails. Comedy gold it is and, according to the author, 100% true. The only thing changed about the stories are the names of the people in the stories to protect their identity... and for good reason.
Here is what the back cover says:
"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.
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 in both 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.'
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 New York, and when he isn't drinking or fornicating, he writes for his website, TuckerMax.com."
Definitely worth the time to read. Out of 5 stars I give it 4 1/2 because he can stray just a little bit making you say to yourself "get it on with it, guy." Otherwise, a very comical book detailing true events.
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