The Start of a New Review

The new year is only into its second month and i am already fighting off new addictions. My addictions may not be the same as others or as bad as some may think, but to me, they can be life altering. I have never touched a cigarette or drugs before, so I have to vise my addictive behaviors out in other ways, such as texting, and google on my phone, and reading.

Reading? that's right. I average about 3000 pages a week, and not in large print either. Twilight books? All 4 read in 3 days?! I don't know what to do with myself. I read when I am bored, angry, tired, don't want to talk to people, anything, anytime, any mood. I am to the point now where it is so compulsive that if i am lying in bed I can't pick up a book, because I won't fall asleep if I start reading it. 

So, I figured I could give a review of the books I have read/reading. My sister is more for the movies, so she can be the critique on those, but i call dibs on the hardcover/paperbacks/paper-between-the-covers thing. 

One of my favorite books of the past year has been "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" by Tucker Max (www.tuckermax.com). This book may be considered one of the most degrading/amazing things to come out in stores, and it will probably keep that title for a long time.  Tucker Max can hope all he wants, but when it comes to eternal damnation he doesn't exactly have a choice, unless one can think of another punishment for a man whose more tame offenses include hiding the crutches of a distracted cripple and crashing a car into a donut shop.

This 277 page book about non-stop drinking, debauchery, and fornication, is a collection of stories that track a man from law school to complete indulgence. The analogy intakes the reader with its complete absurity and humor, and Tthe ironic part is that Max might not be the funniest one in it. His colleges in crime can be compared to the crew in Jackass with Ivy League brains, and they provide the foil of the insanity to Tuckers actions.

The standout is member "Slingblade", an undisclosed aged man who has a green lantern bedspred and batman symbol sheets, dolls that he prefers to call "action figures", a very open opinion on old G.I. Joe vs. new G.I. Jo, and has opening lines to a conversations like "I go to the gym, you should try it sometime".

Now don't get me wrong, the message and the idea of this book will certainly not make you want to tell your parents to go out and buy it, and bringing it up in conversation will more than likely step on a few toes, but if you enjoy it and understand what Tucker Max is saying than it should not be a problem. This book is about not "deserving" respect, but demanding it. People will treat you the way you allow them to treat you, and nothing is going to change unless you make it. Its a good moral, wrapped up in a very dirty bedsheet.