[REVIEW] I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

 "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."

I first learned about "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" while looking through the vast collection of books in Fullybooked. I have this habit of hanging out in bookstores whenever I go to the mall and just spend a couple of hours going through as much books as I can and noting down on my phone's memo the books that I want to read. Some people might find it boring but I don't mind. I love reading it's something I can do forever and not get bored. In fact if stalking reading was a profession that paid killer dough I'd take it as a career path. Hahaha... 

So I was really stoked when I accidentally stumbled upon a pdf copy of this book online while I was looking for a pdf copy of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I downloaded it right away and ended up reading half of the book the whole afternoon. To be honest, I didn't have much of an idea what the book was really all about except that it's a non-fiction and it was all about the life adventures of Tucker Max. Saying that this guy lived life to the fullest is an understatement. Spending every day drinking, hooking up with random women wherever he went and literally letting each day pass terribly drunk, it was THE LIFE for him. Even waking up with a massive hangover, suffering from a severe case of diarrhea or vomiting his guts out-as terrible as it may seems-he never stops living the life of the ultimate drunkard. One day he'd end up sh*tting all over the hotel lobby, clogging the hotel room's toilet bowl and the rest of the toilet bowls in the public restroom in some hotel or sh*tting on himself but who cares? He will never give up booze and women for his dignity and hygene. 

I was really shocked that someone can be this much of a bummer. All the more for someone who wasn't just any ordinary guy at the peak of his youth. Just so you know, while living a happy-go-lucky lifestyle, Max Tucker was a law student. Yep, and despite all the time he threw away drinking beers and hooking up with women he graduated with a Law Degree in 2001. I have mixed emotions after reading this book. I thought it was great of Tucker Max to have been able to savour every moment of his life. I wish I could do the same. I don't want to go to that level though. He may have slept with more than a hundred women (and still counting) and wake up the next day without any memory of what happened the night before or why he's lying down in some park with vomit all over his face. But I'm sure though that when he's grey and old he won't have to worry about regretting not living life to the fullest. I think one of the most important things in life is that every person gets to live life by his/her own rules and realize his/her dream. That's what Tucker Max did. His life may not be the ideal life for most of us, but it was the direction he chose to take and he seems pretty damn happy and contented with it. He may not be the best example for someone who wants a positive life but look, despite his being a drunkard and a total ass he was able to turn something positive out of his wretched lifestyle. He shared his out-of-the-world insane adventures to the world through a mere reading material then later on became a New York Times Bestselling Author and even had his book signed up for a movie deal. Now, he just continues to live his kind of life and keeps on sharing to the world about it. He wasn't simply a no-life guy who drank his heart away, had sex to as much hot women as possible or harshly criticized women. This guy didn't seek for perfection. He just took what's there on the table. For him life was simple. He found contentment in the company of alcohol and hoes. It may not be the most ideal choice but for someone like him, it was the life he preferred. Hopefully not for good though.

I highly recommend this book to bookworms who are VERY open-minded, mature and someone who can look beyond what's written on the surface. I think it's a good book. It may be an R-Rated read but it makes you realize a lot of things too. In some moments you'd laugh about Tucker's antics, randomness and weird ideas yet it will never cross your mind not even for once-strangely though-that this guy is dumb. With every stupid thing he does comes really good realizations which he shares to the world. It'll make you just naturally agree to whatever he is saying simply because he's right in one way or another. To quote him, 

“There is no such thing as "deserving" respect; you get what you demand from people.. if you demand respect, he will either respect you or he won't associate with you. It really is that simple.”

Though he generally was disrespectful to women and treated them as an object of pleasure at least he was very honest about it. He was right when he said people treat you the way you want to be treated. This guy managed to sleep with a hundred something women not because he forced these women to do so, it was a choice that these women took. They clearly knew how disrespectful he was to women yet they still willingly and happily threw themselves to him and strip them off their own dignity. They get what they deserve, be seen and treated like a hoe. He may most of the time be insensitive about women but I know deep within this man has still got some soft spot and respect for women. In the latter part of the book, he was dancing around, drunk as usual and he saw this image of a woman he said he could finally fall in love with. Someone, who he sees as the one he can grow old with. There was this feeling of comfort and delight to have finally found the one he's been waiting for so long that you can feel and read through in that moment he was speaking about that woman which later on he finds out is just his illusion, one of the many side effects of getting drunk. At that moment I knew that this guy was not hopeless after all. He knows the kind of women who deserves his respect and those who don't.

I'm not really shocked that he's still single until now. Though I don't think he's a hopeless case I mean anything can happen. What do you expect from a man who can't handle his alcohol intake and addiction to sex? Better be single this way than married and addicted to both alcohol and women right? I like him. He's very honest that he's a douche and he doesn't hide it. He's being honest about it and is definitely being responsible about it, in his own way. For someone who's a stranger to Tucker Max's life reading his experiences will open you to a lot of things unknown to you. Though most of it are crazy, it'll make you understand the idea that life has no boundaries. All it takes is a fearless step towards the blind side. Also, it tells that it's okay to break free from everything and do what makes you happy, live life and not let life pass you by.This book will make you feel like laughing your ass off in Tucker Max's series of adventures, shocked of his wildness, hate him for being the biggest douchebag and wanting to murder him for disrespecting women, think again how men view women, take a trip to the wildest cities and later on even if there will be times you'd want to stop reading because you feel that there's no point finishing Tucker Max's book, you'll find yourself coming back to experience the rush of adventure and being a part of his crazy life.

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