Books for Boozers

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Books for Boozers

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Do check out these books:
a) "Bourbon Empire"
b) "Empire of Booze".
and, perhaps most importantly of all:
c) "The Modern Drunkard Handbook"*.

Do you have any booze-ridden books that you feel should be added, in order to make the definitive list of books that every hoocher should have?


* And why not take out a subscription to the superb depositary of knowledge thai is "The Modern Drunkard Magazine"?
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Reading books bum me out when I'm Drinking. Fucking double vision makes me read everything twice. Took me a year to read "Green Green Eggs Eggs and Ham Ham".

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Kingsley Amis On Drink is a masterpiece
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Anything Hemingway is wild...especially 'A Movable Feast'. Just a whole book on him getting drunk in Parisian cafes.

I'll third the Kingsley Amis vote..'On Drink' is a book every real drinker should give a go.

I didn't bother with Thomson for ages after not really loving 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'....however i recently fuckin loved 'The Rum Diary' so what do i know?

Also Beer Gods fuckin bless Henry Charles Bukowski....

No so much drinking related but I also love all the 'Song of Ice and Fire' series....I AM ROBERT BARATHEON.
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The onion Eaters by JP DUnleavy is a masterpiece in that when undrunk one feels drunk reading it. Also great for his use of many archaic bottle sizes and unlikely monsters
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Hunter Thompson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

Is a legend in the world of Scotch.

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Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy and the Secret History of the Russian State
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HF9DEXE/ ... _lig_dp_it

I haven't bought it yet, I''m still reading Bulgakov and a couple of biographies. Once I finish one of these, I might pick this up.
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The Belcher by Luke Schmaltz.

A thoroughly enjoyable romp through Denver's underbelly. Part pulp and part kick in the nuts call to action for every wannabe anti-hero out there.
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This just in. Can't wait to try it out. And it's the same author from "The Hungoevr Cookbook" bwahahaha. Didn't realize it was all misspelled when I ordered it. The back says "A witty and entertaining culinary companion for GUI's (gastronomes under the influence)".

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My less than humble suggestions would be;

The Greatest Beer Run Ever, by Chick Donohue

Woody, Cisco, and Me, by Jim Longhi

Tales From The Red Lion, edited by John Weagly and Andrea Dubnick

Cap'n Fatso, by Daniel Gallery

The Last Detail, by Darryl Ponicsan

The Great Green, by Calvin Kentfield

John Barleycorn, by Jack London

And a bunch more that I can't think of right now, because it's the end of another 16 hour day at sea, and a ship bound for China, and I'm enjoying my end of day Whiskey.

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My latest addition:

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