Showing posts with label Tucker Max. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tucker Max. Show all posts

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Hilarity Ensues by Tucker Max (CBR-IV #46)

Cannonball Read IV: Book #46/52
Published: 2012
Pages: 448
Genre: Humor

Sigh. I don't even know where to start with this one. I read Tucker Max's first book when I was in college (roughly 5 years ago...eek!) and thought it was hilarious. The guy was an asshole, no doubt, but he owned it at least. The second book was okay. Funny, but it lost some the charm of the first book. This third book? Completely lost any charm that may have ever existed. 

It was basically the same thing as the first two books, only instead of listening to your roommate tell their drunk stories from last weekend, you're listening to the 35-year-old tell drunk stories from his "glory days" ten years ago.  At this point he's already told his best stories and he's grasping for anything he may have left untold.

The only redeeming parts of this book were Tucker's friends. They were always my favorite part of all of his books (especially Slingblade). I did enjoy the stories about them. I can't say I hated this book, just that it was a little disappointing. I'm not sure if that's due to Tucker growing up or due to me growing out of his stories and not really caring about anyone's drunk exploits anymore.

This is supposedly Max's last book of this sort. I'm kind of interested in what he writes next because it's obvious that he's very intelligent and a decent writer. I just hope it's a little less narcissistic.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Sloppy Seconds: The Tucker Max Leftovers by Tucker Max (CBR-IV #21)

Cannonball Read IV: Book #21/52
Published: 2012
Pages: 288
Genre: Nonfiction/Humor


I read the first two Tucker Max books back in college. For some reason, they were definitely more funny back then. Anyways, his stories are still pretty entertaining, but the older I get the more irritated I get by his immature antics that occasionally go beyond the realm of funny and venture into just plain cruel. 


This book was released as a free ebook, sort of as a companion book to his third release, Hilarity Ensues (which I will probably end up reading as much as I may resist...). The first few stories are just repeats straight from each of his three books. At first this kind of irritated me because I thought the entire book was just sections from his other books not "leftovers" like the title suggests. But after that there are some leftover stories as well as some stories that Max says he is always asked about. 


If you aren't easily offended, then this free book is a pretty good way to see if Tucker Max stories are for you. He is pretty funny and if nothing else he's pretty honest about how much of a douche he is/was.