by Lindsay Oliver

Created on: June 11, 2009

We have all come across someone who appears similar to Tucker Max in our time, someone who purposely says the wrong thing at the wrong time to cause maximum offensiveness. A person who uses everyone he meets as pawns to increase his own happiness. The worst person you have ever met will seem tame, mellow even after reading some of the anecdotes in Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. This anthology of a drunken youth with a smart mouth and the intelligence to back it up will leave you with aches in your sides from laughing so hard. Yes, most people have ridiculous stories about their college-aged drunken adventures with friends, but no one (except Tucker Max, of course) has this many stories to this level of extremity. His tamest stories include getting in a physical altercation with a professional hockey team's mascot and laughing as a nave redneck shocks himself until he is foaming from the mouth. More than one of his stories ends with a room being covered in human feces. The articles are full of blunt honesty, excessive amounts of drinking, depravity and fornication, sometimes all at once.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is the guiltiest of all guilty pleasures. Max is beyond self-indulgent and brings his readers right along for the ride. The articles, especially the dialogue, is easy to read and brings back nostalgic moments of listening to my guy friends in college plan their next adventure. His comparisons and humor keep the reader engaged and are regularly more offensive than whatever stunt he just pulled. Scrubbing himself like a rape victim, for example, is used to describe his cousin's shower the morning after sleeping with a girl both of them found less than stellar.

His friends are just as outrageous as he is, helping him reach his true potential for being the world's worst human being. He spends his time with people who are just as messed up as he is (and he is well aware of how many psychological issues are at bay) and even if they disagree with his actions, they certainly do not discourage him. They stroke his ego, even if it is just to get him riled up, and he thrives off his audience. His friends are just as smart mouthed as he is, and sometimes, are more offensive than he is. One friend, SlingBlade, refers to one of their mutual friend's girlfriends as the most evil demon-[use your imagination] in the long history of female chicanery and deception.

Max is so offensive the only reaction the reader can

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