Literary Drinking Games

[frau kaleun]

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You can play these games in groups — by, say, having one person read aloud (this will probably get even more fun as the reader's voice slurs and his/her eyes lose focus). However, they are perhaps best attempted — like great writing — alone with your secret fantasies, your thwarted desires, and your gnawing fear that you will never really amount to anything in this bleak, meaningless life.

Thomas Pynchon: Drink every time someone has a stupid name, like "Eigenvalue."

David Foster Wallace: Drink every time a sentence has three or more conjunctions.

William Faulkner: Every time a sentence goes on for more than a page, drink the entire bottle. Then make out with your sister.

Joyce Carol Oates: Drink every time there is a home invasion.

Jane Austen: Drink every time someone plays whist, goes riding, or gets married.

J.D. Salinger: Every time there is a symbol of lost innocence, drink a highball. Then spit it all over someone you love.

Emily Bronte: Drink every time you see the word "heath" (Heathcliff counts).

Gabriel García Márquez: Drink every time someone's name is "Aureliano." (Note: this only works for A Hundred Years of Solitude)

Virginia Woolf: First, go buy some flowers. Then, if you have time left over, drink.

Sappho: Drink every time you can't tell if something is hot or disgusting.

Ernest Hemingway: Drink every time Ernest Hemingway is boring and overrated. Man, I am so wasted right now.

Raymond Chandler: Drink every time someone drinks.

Dashiell Hammett: Drink every time someone drinks.

Homer: Drink every time someone drinks gross diluted wine.

Stephenie Meyer: Drink every time someone drinks blood.

Dylan Thomas: Drink until you are in a coma.

Not a drinking game perhaps but having a strong connection of literacy to liquor is the Philosopher's Song from Monty Python's Flying Circus:



I drink, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes

[Weiss Pinguin]

Drink every time someone has a stupid name, like "Eigenvalue."

What?! That is probably the coolest name I've ever heard The next video game character I make is going to have to be named Maxwell Eigenvalue or something like that.

[Takeda Shingen]

Ernest Hemingway: Drink every time Ernest Hemingway is boring and overrated. Man, I am so wasted right now.

Whew, I thought I was the only one who felt that way.

[Dowly]

"Drinking is strictly probhibited in this house. Except if fish is being served. Everything except sausage can be counted as fish, if for some reason only sausage is being served, let it be counted as fish too."

That's hanging on our cottage's wall.

[FIREWALL]

Drinking is also strickly prohibited in my house unless, you give me your carkeys and are willing to be overserved.

By then who can see to read anything.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Dowly

"Drinking is strictly probhibited in this house. Except if fish is being served. Everything except sausage can be counted as fish, if for some reason only sausage is being served, let it be counted as fish too."

That's hanging on our cottage's wall.

that is deffinately going to be hanging in my forrest retreat cottage once it is finished

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Whew, I thought I was the only one who felt that way.

I remember having to read The Old Man And The Sea in high school. It's not that I hated it, I just didn't quite get the whole "OMG Hemingway Great American Author!" thing. Same with... oh, the other one we had to read. Spanish Civil War, dude falls in love with some chick, she dies... yeah, it was so memorable I can't even remember which book it was. The Sun Also Rises?

Later on I read a couple more of his "big" novels, but they didn't do anything for me either. Again, didn't hate them, just puzzled as to why he's considered one of our "great" authors.

<iinsert obligatory disclaimer re beauty, eye of the beholder, etc. here>

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I remember having to read The Old Man And The Sea in high school. It's not that I hated it, I just didn't quite get the whole "OMG Hemingway Great American Author!" thing. Same with... oh, the other one we had to read. Spanish Civil War, dude falls in love with some chick, she dies... yeah, it was so memorable I can't even remember which book it was. The Sun Also Rises?

Later on I read a couple more of his "big" novels, but they didn't do anything for me either. Again, didn't hate them, just puzzled as to why he's considered one of our "great" authors.

<iinsert obligatory disclaimer re beauty, eye of the beholder, etc. here>

I understand where you are coming from. Its like when we had to read The Catcher in the Rye. Sheesh its a misbehaved kid wondering around NY. Why do I care? Could someone shut this kid up?

I guess this book was suppose to "connect" with us.

The only thing I remember about this book was that it is suppose to be part of some kind of Assassin Programing.

...
......
.......

.......... must locate Skybird.... locate Skybird......
>click-click-clank<
...huh what... what was I saying? Oh yea...

The only books in school that I liked (of those assigned) were Fahrenheit 451, and Lord of the Flies. Plus the Shakespeare we read aloud in class.