SSR: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

At one point in everyone's life there is at least one book that makes you stop, put the book down, and say the name of your favorite deity and your favorite curse word in awe. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell is one of those books. At first glance of the cover at your local book store, the blasphemous words, "Oh great, another stupid potty humor book." may come out of your mouth. You may even look down upon the book in shame because of its "tasteless" nature. To place the book in your hands is to give your hands a fondle of the book that will make you laugh, cry, repulsed and laugh all over again at the book that is leading the charge of the "Frat-ire" genre.
Tucker Max is an arrogant jerk with no regard for anyone's feelings, and proud of it. Fornicating with numbers of women that borderlines on dangerous-somewhere in the low triple digits. He gets ridiculously drunk with his college friends and will break things, or vomit or urinate on them. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is an account of the finer points of all of those things in his life with each chapter detailing one of those stories and it's not a stereotypical "Oh I learned from my mistakes and I won't do it again" stories, although he will admit that some of the outrageous things he did pushed even his limits, you never get the actual sense of regret, occasional shame? yes. But not regret.
The first chapter entitled "The Sushi Pants Story" begins with Tucker telling the reader about how he has purchased a portable breathalyzer and his goals to blow a .20 BAC with said item and parade it around the Sushi place. The chapter is told with time stamps at each pivotal point which breaks a lot of the rules our English teachers have told us about how to correctly write a story. There are other means of getting the story across in this book as well, be it with the time stamps, a series of bullets in the event a series of events cannot exactly be put in order, a diagram, and even a Pro and Con chart. Tucker Max tells the story as if you are talking to him over a beer or two with profanity to emphasize and all.
Tucker Max's friends that partake in the chaos are easy to relate to as well, and if you think about them, you either know someone like them or that someone may just turn out to be you. There are friends who are emotionally incapable of holding a relationship because of a grudge against the opposite sex because of trauma of a previous relationship, those who are in a stable relationship and want a future, those who go on drink and destroy missions, and others who are just out to sleep with as many women as they can.
All in all, the book is a nice change of pace from the stereotype "I learned my lesson". Overall the writing was good and Tucker Max came off as a friend that was telling you some insane debacle that occurred the night before when you decided to 'stay home and rest'. I would definitely recommend the book anyone except to those who

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are offended by glorification of outlandish behavior, the occasional sexist or common crude comment.