"The Tender Bar" by J.R. Moeringer. Excellent story, very well written. Please do yourself a favor and read it.
So let's get this rolling again. My suggestions are "Ask the Dust" by John Fante or "Sweet Thursday" by John Steinbeck.
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i know the problems we have all had with these assholes, and if you read the book, tucker max is the biggest of em all, but its a damn entertaining drunk read.
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I thought I've read every Steinbeck book/story there was . . . somehow I've missed Sweet Thursday. I'll have to look for that one online (since the rinky dink libraries around here don't have that one).
I second Hangover's suggestions of Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, for those who haven't read them yet. Two of my faves. (and stories that are easily appreciated by drunks.)
I second Hangover's suggestions of Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, for those who haven't read them yet. Two of my faves. (and stories that are easily appreciated by drunks.)
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recently I've reread Call of the Wild by Jack London. Last book of his I read was his John Barleycorn autobiography. Great, manly, drunken man. Next book is O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas, which, unbelievably, my university has the movie, screenplay, but NOT the novel.
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I have that book, my friend has it right now and he texts me random quotes from the book. Also some good reading that has liberal amounts of drinking is the James Bond series by Ian Fleming, especially "Casino Royale", he tells the bartender how to make his martini.ruiner wrote:i know the problems we have all had with these assholes, and if you read the book, tucker max is the biggest of em all, but its a damn entertaining drunk read.
http://beerinhell.tuckermax.com/
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Re: MDM Book Club
It's on order. Thank you.DrDrinkBastard wrote:"The Tender Bar" by J.R. Moeringer.
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