I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

or all you guys (and girls) out there who can’t get enough of the crazy partying and philandering portrayed on the HBO show Entourage, get ready to meet Tucker Max. What started out as a website created for the purpose of meeting girls and dedicated to getting a date, soon turned into a blog filled with wildly entertaining, and not to mention hilarious, stories about drinking, partying, and hooking up. Upon the success of Tucker Max’s blog, he decided to go ahead and turn it into a book, each chapter more hilarious than the next. The stories are recollections of Tucker’s alcohol fueled experiences during college and graduate school; think of listening to a conversation the ladies from Sex and the City have, but funnier.  When the excerpt on the back of the book reads, “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,” one can only imagine that they are in for a ride upon cracking this book open.

When I read this book, there were times that I actually started laughing out loud, don’t believe me? Take a look, “GoldenBoy hands me his phone, and tells me to listen to the voice message. It is my voice, recorded around 2:45am. I am out of breath, and sound like I am running: ‘GoldenBoy, what is your address? Where are you? I just fucked some random chick I met outside The Biltmore. Apparently she didn’t pass the Bar, so she liked me. The condom broke and I got the fuck out of there as soon as I could. Im fucked. My illegitimate kids are going to be ugly and stupid. HELP!!’” (101). Not funny enough for you? Keep reading, “People started doing keg stands, which led to perhaps the defining moment of the trip. This one girl, who was ugly and a bitch (thus, didn’t have basic human rights) started doing one. Don’t ask me why I did this, because I have no idea why, but when she was upside down, legs spread apart, I punched her right in the vagina. This caused her to violently spit up the beer she was trying to consume, and fall backwards into the two people holding her up, all of them splashing to the mud. I ran off, laughing so hysterically I couldn’t breathe. Thankfully in the alcohol-addled confusion, no one noticed who did it” (168).

Obviously, those of you who are feminists or get offended easily will not enjoy the book, as women are often mistreated within Tucker’s stories. Although it is undoubtedly funny, it is extensively vulgar and crude, with graphic sexual images and situations being described. Oh, and lets not forget the swearing. However, that’s just something you have to disregard or look past if you want to take part in the hilarity.

Tucker Max went to college at University of Chicago, so a few of the stories take place in the area, he then went on to attend law school at Duke. His website is still up and running: TuckerMax.com and contains some of the stories that are featured in the book, which came out in 2006, and has since been on the NY Times Bestseller List. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is currently being made into a movie, expected to release in fall of 2009. Don’t let that stop you from reading the book though, because the stories in the movie won’t even be HALF as funny unless you have read them first.