Dec 8-16, 2018
To finish the full title, A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present.
A fun, hilarious history on being drunk. Not drinking in general, but getting hammered. Laugh out loud funny at times, yet still enlightening. A good break between serious novels.I had to take not of a few funny quotes that are definitely worth repeating at party:
Trying to punch a saber-toothed tiger when you're five sheets to the wind is a nightmare.
To pass an entire day and night in drinking disgraces no one.
The number of accounts of people dropping down dead in a gin shop is phenomenal and depressing.
Crack is always served with crumpets.
He blew his money on whores and oysters.
Forsyth has a great sense of humor. Worth the read if you've ever been known to get overserved.
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