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Feb 21, 2008

Sean rated it:

"My name is Tucker Max and I'm an asshole.." Mate, your name is "Tucker" and you attended law school, so the second half of that sentence seems redundant to me.

The humor here seems to be the continuation of a long line of misogynist, sometimes crypto-racist, mostly Caucasian males: Andrew 'Dice' Clay, Howard Stern, Morton Downey Jr., "Animal House" (while funny, did spotlight frat-boy antics), Frank Zappa's more misogynist moments (think "Dinah-Moe- More...

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May 11, 2010

karen rated it:

this book is like anthropology for me - i have spent my life avoiding men like this and the women who are their prey just 'cause they annoy me. but i was still curious about why everyone was reading this. so reading this book was my shark week - i could watch the feeding frenzies, while avoiding that water at all costs. i think it was fortuitous that i started reading it the day i went to the leonard cohen concert - it made for some pretty magical comparisons. leonard cohen is a man who has bee More...

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Dec 28, 2008

Kirk added it

This book makes me embarrassed to be a man. The fact that it has sold 400,000 copies makes embarrassed to be a reader. That it's justified as bathroom reading makes me embarrassed to own a toilet. To folks who happen to like it: hey, to each his own. My opinions are worth both sides of the two-ply they're printed on and nothing more. But as wussy as the words are, the whole premise---I'm an obnoxious alco-fuckaholic, but I know it, so the joke's not on me---lacks two things I'm sorta fond of: co More...

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Apr 19, 2009

Monique rated it:

A big WOW for shameless debauchery from a raging egomaniac. It’s like bungee-jumping into the middle of the mosh pit at a fraternity grain party. I’m one of those girls who liked parts of the Tucker book. Well, actually this is sort of a mixed review. The first story I read was the Tucker tries b*tt sex one. I nearly peed myself it was so funny. For shock value and out of control laughs, you could stop after that story and be satisfied. (It turns out I should have stopped).

The next More...

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Oct 27, 2007

Rebecca rated it:

Most negative reviews of this book are from people who balk at this guy's lifestyle (that being, he's an asshole, an alcohlic, and fucks lots of girls). As someone who is debatably at least one of those things, and probably 2, I don't really give a shit about his lifestyle. I like assholes. Alcoholics are pretty interesting, or at least have interesting stories. But I cannot stress enough that anyone with half a brain will hate this book because this guy is the WORST WRITER EVER. I don't un More...

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Dec 28, 2008

RandomAnthony rated it:

This book, uh, shouldn't be called a book. I Hope The Serve Beer In Hell is essentially a book-length Maxim article/boasting session at the bar. Now, I don't have a significant problem with either Maxim articles or drunks at the bar, as they can sometimes be funny, but in large doses on the page the effect wears thin. Imagery as hackneyed as "She look like she got hit in the face with a frying pan" may work after eight beers at 2AM on Sunday morning, but I wasn't reading the book th More...

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Jan 13, 2008

Mark rated it:

Dear Satan,

I humbly request that you serve Tucker Max plenty of beer once he joins you in Hell. However, please first insert a glass rod into his urethra and then break it in several places.

Very best,

Mark

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Jan 03, 2008

Stina rated it:

Lending the fifteen minutes it took me to finish the first three chapters of this book is perhaps my biggest regret in life. I received it as a gift from a co-worker who scanned the back cover and thought it might make for an amusing read on the train ride into work. The most amusing thing about the book, however, was that a supposed Ivy League graduate thought it a wise literary maneuver to forego employing an editor.

The material lacks substance, is repetitive, and the quality of t More...

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Jun 30, 2008

James rated it:

Tucker Max is an inexplicable success story. He wrote emails to friends about his drunken, debaucherous sexual exploits. This turned into a blog. This became a book. This became a New York Times bestselling book. Now there is a movie.

Though an impressive exercise in excess and gall, Max’s tales of drinking and sex are mostly unremarkable. Most youths half-conscious for high school and college will be able to meet Tucker half-way with his mildly shocking anecdotes of modern bacchanali More...

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Apr 09, 2008

Michelle rated it:

Whoa, boy. There was a guy in college we called “Nast” and now I feel bad… Tucker Max is much more deserving of the title than that poor guy!

This book definitely had some downright hysterical parts but by the end it was a little “much” for me. I just got tired of his schtick after awhile. Some of the tales weren’t even that crazy. The dog vomit one? I’ve known like 10 people with virtually the same story. There were times where I thought, I know much better stuff than that! Don’t kno More...

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Feb 11, 2008

Amanda rated it:

I get Tucker Max. I do. My proclaiming to everyone on his website, on the dust jacket of his book that he is an asshole, he doesn't have to take accountability for anything. Because, hey, I told you I was an asshole, right? I get it. And I've used that tactic before. That doesn't make me like the book any better, though.

Admittedly, I loved the title and I thought I was buying a smart, witty, off-color book written by a guy whose irreverant rants on life would be hilarious. Not so More...

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Jan 27, 2008

Stephanie rated it:

Let me preface this review with the following:
(1) I have only read the first 41 pages of this book (and intend to read no further);
(2) I purchased this book without performing any preliminary research (the title just seemed funny);
(3) I had a seriously bad date this weekend.

OK, here I go: Honestly, Tucker Max should be commended for his profound ability to memorialize life as it is perceived by a beer-drinking, ass-getting, womanizing, I'm-entitled-to-be-a-dick-so-d More...

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Nov 02, 2007

Kelaine rated it:

Oh please. Am I supposed to be amused? This little prick recalls his "true life" biography of fratty, immature romps around town being a dickhead to fat girls and having sex with everyone in every way. I've never heard of someone shitting and vomiting on himself so often. I read it because a friend recommended I see what life is like for the other side. I don't recommend it to anyone. In fact, I felt worse about myself after reading it and am upset that I even have anything to sa More...

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Dec 25, 2011

Kristin rated it:

This book is disgusting! It is literally the worst book I've ever read. And yet I have never, ever, ever laughed so hard and so loud at the written word. This book apalled me but I couldn't. stop. reading! Tucker Max has some kind of writing style, it's almost Gonzo. But I would never tell him that. And if you did he wouldn't get the reference at all. It's like sitting next to some drunk, ex reality-show star in an Ed Hardy t-shirt as he recounts his shallow, pathetic existence. And for tha More...

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Jan 03, 2008

Briana rated it:

Well, where to start?

This book is genuinely a great bathroom read: short stories, easy to pick up and put down without hesitation.....but Tucker Max, although a great story-teller, is really not too adept with his words.

He does what annoys me the most (and would have made my favourite English teacher die inside), and quite often too: he is insanely repetitious in his words and concocts the same descriptions over and over. His vocabulary is limited, and it seems like he More...

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Apr 06, 2010

Linds rated it:

Look, this guy obviously has narcissistic personality disorder. He needs help. (Though being a narcissist, he would never admit or think this.) He calls himself an asshole but it goes deeper than that.

This book is supposed to be funny, but it's just kind've sad. You meet one entitled, spoiled frat boy you've met them all.

The only reason I read this is that my friend takes forever to get ready, and this is one of the only books he had. I've been picking through it for a fe More...

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Oct 21, 2007

Michelle added it

I'm not sure how to rate this book because I found it horribly offensive and downright archaic in the way in views women or for that matter how people treat each other in general. However, that is not to say that several of the stories had me laughing fairly hard (mostly at the author's expense). The author is a narcissist and I mean that literally in every sense of the word. Serously, remember Narcissus? The author actually has a story of a drunken night where he meets a girl he could see himse More...

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Oct 02, 2009

Alfonso rated it:

Ok, today I’m moving this to my crappy book crappier movie shelve! I went to see this piece of shit yesterday, and when I got there there was this cool ass sign that somebody attached to the poster outside the theater… and I just had to take a picture of me next to it… I wish I had a copy of Sex And Character: An Investigation Of Fundamental Principles to hold next to it… but I didn’t… still this is a crappy book with a guy who thinks he is funny but honestly the only reason why you laugh at th More...

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Mar 09, 2008

Kev rated it:

Why does this book happen to get four stars?
"BITCH, I'LL TELL YOU HOW IT HAPPENED, I"M FUCKING AWESOME"

Yes the author says things like that, and he also speaks of himself in the third person, and uses I-went-to-Duke show off words that don't match the content of his stories (seriously, will the frat boys reading this prefer the word "felatio" to "blowjob?") I doubt it. Nonetheless, the stories are hilarious and i fear this book has influenced

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Feb 07, 2008

LuSung rated it:

As a chick I am ashamed to say I really enjoyed this book because he just takes advantage of women in such a terrible way but its also kinda hard to feel bad for the women because....well I don't really know any woman that would let things go as far as some of these woman do!!! Its a moronic walk through a jerk womanizer's life with his friends.

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Aug 21, 2008

Tina rated it:

Yes, he is despicable, can't write for his life and has you wondering why he even deserved a book deal (and movie deal) in the first place, but the book was fairly entertaining if you want a quick, mindless read. Or maybe you just want to keep reading to find out if he ever did get his just deserts?

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Dec 31, 2010

Marvin rated it:

I must admit that it was a funny book at least for 30 to 40 pages. Then all that random sex, projectile vomiting, and scatology just got boring.

I guess I'm supposed to say what the author and every reviewer of this book has already said: Tucker Max is an asshole, What he isn't is even more obvious. He is not a writer. There are writers who are capable of exploring their assholeness. Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski immediately comes to mind. Yet these writers wrote about much mo More...

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Nov 03, 2008

Frank rated it:

This work of genius puts my sexual life to shame at the same time it aggrandizes those moments of shameless exploitation! In defense of Trevor however, he's not a user, he's simply knowledgeable about how to take what is already being offered.

Without spoiling this work of contemporary shock-art, I'll simply say that this book is a collection of short stories from Trevor Max's college years beginning in his undergrad at the U of Chicago and spanning through his debauchery as a Duke La More...

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Dec 04, 2008

Jessica rated it:

I liked this WAY more than is appropriate. I had never heard of this guy - apparently he was a big deal on the internet a few years ago. Someone sent me a link about this book and I checked it out from the library, hoping for a few laughs. I laughed so hard I almost stopped breathing a few times. It's all about drinking and sex and vomit and loose bowels - wildly immature and right up my alley. This guy is a sort of thinking-man's Johnny Knoxville - he'll say anything to anyone while drinki More...

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Apr 06, 2009

Jaisette rated it:

Okay....this is who I would be if I had a penis, no morals and no family structure. I thought this book was hilarious!!! Truly a forage into the mind of the horny guy. Though Tucker is in his late twenties I do not put any of the things he does past any man 30 - 40 years of age. Or at least any that I know of...seriously some of these stories remind me of my closest guy friends.

It's great, deliciously crude and hiliariously sexist and if I met this guy and he wasn't blong I'd prob More...

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Oct 20, 2008

Alex rated it:

not "high litearture," but funny stories.

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Jul 16, 2011

John rated it:

The problem I have with this book has nothing to do with Tucker Max. From what I gather, a lot of people have a problem with the guy. I'm not sure why. He seems like a somewhat typical frat-boy type. The only this is he's unapologetic about being an asshole. Maybe that's what bothers people. If you hate him for what he is, you're hating a whole lot of people.

And I personally think the strong negative response empowers Tucker Max. He wants to push your buttons. He's trying to b More...

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May 22, 2011

Jessica rated it:

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.

This honest description sits in perfectly legible bold font on the back of the book. So, I am q More...

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Sep 15, 2008

Patrick rated it:

Tucker Max is a gigantic douchebag, yet he's strangely un-self-aware for a guy who makes his living writing outrageous ~~lies~~ true stories of his drunken debauchery. Throughout his book of stories, Max talks about himself like he is the undisputed coolest guy in the world, and continually disparages other men in the book as tools and douchebags, unaware that he is them. Funny how that works.

Max's book is outrageous (as in almost completely untrue), misogynistic, crude, and offensive, b More...

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Oct 02, 2009

Chris rated it:

Tucker Max declares himself an asshole right from the beginning, and well, yes he is. With a name like "Tucker Max" however, there can only be one of two conclusions: yes, he is an asshole of the highest order, or he is destined to become a genius in some field, whether it be writing, artistry, or acting. People like Garrison Keillor or Caspar Weinberger are perfect examples of the "Unique Name Destiny" effect, for instance.

It seems our boy Tucker has decided th More...

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