I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

  With chapter titles such as The Famous Sushi Pants Story and The Night We Almost Died, readers will laugh at the eventful and amusing life that Tucker Max lives. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is a compilation of short stories that tell of Max’s comical experiences with partying, women, and insulting other people.
 

On the back cover of the book, Max writes “I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, and sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable.” He sounds like a jerk, but he is that guy everyone loves to hate. With each horrifying yet hilarious story Max tells, readers will be pulled deeper into his ridiculous life, and once they start reading, they will be dying to read more.

  In The Halloween Pub Crawl, Max tells the story of how he went to a pub crawl for Halloween dressed up as “God’s Gift to Women,” in which he wrapped a red ribbon on his torso. He ended up taking a girl home, sleeping with her, and in the morning he was missing $40 out of his wallet; he wasn’t sure if she was an actual hooker or if she just robbed him.

  In Tucker Goes to a Muslim Wedding, Drinks Anyway, Max writes about his Muslim friend’s wedding in which he was not supposed to drink at because of their religion, but he did so anyway because he likes to defy all rules and be a jerk. After getting drunk by himself in the bathroom, he went around to his friend’s family and told ridiculous stories. He told a bridesmaid that he was a “freelance dog and cat euthanizer for local animal shelters” and that he “only made the ugly ones suffer.” He told a couple that he was “a fluffer for porn movies,” and told another woman he was an author of a children’s book called The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables. This story demonstrates how stupid Max can really be sometimes.
  Max is not academically stupid, though; he graduated from the University of Chicago with high honors, and then graduated from Duke Law School with a Juris Doctorate. However, he says on his website, www.tuckermax.com, “I made a mistake going to law school. There was a time in my life that I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but I was terribly mistaken. I didn’t know that you had to give up your soul to work in that field.”
  Though he never pursued a career in the law field, he has gotten in his fair share of trouble with the law. In 2003, Max posted stories about his relationship with former Miss Vermont, which resulted in getting a lawsuit filed against him for invading her privacy. Still, he left the embarrassing story up on his website for the world to read. In 2006, Max wrote about Anthony DiMeo, a Philadelphian event planner, criticizing him for planning a bad event. DiMeo sued Max under the Violence Against Women Act because some comments on Max’s message board were “libelous and represented criminal behavior.” In 2009, a feminist group, who thought his writing “promoted a culture of rape,” picketed a speaking engagement he held in Ohio. In September 2009, Max made it publicly known that he was going to sue the blog Bostonist for libel after they published an article accusing him of being a rapist.

  Despite the controversies, Max continues to keep his website running, and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell has been made into a movie and is now playing in select theaters. AMC Loews in Cambridge and Danvers are currently showing it. The difference between the movie and book is that the movie focuses primarily on one short story from the book, The Austin Road Trip Story, but the book has several different stories. Both the book and movie cannot be missed; readers and viewers are in for a good laugh.

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