Literary Drinking Games

[frau kaleun]

http://jezebel.com/5603364/drink-til...-drinking-game

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.

[danzig70]

Time to take a 12 pack to the library.

[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 danzig70

Time to take a 12 pack to the library.

[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.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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

Heh, books about "teen angst" didn't appeal much to me even when I was a teenager.

Although I do remember liking A Separate Peace quite a bit. Mensch, I haven't though about that book in ages.

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.

I had an English teacher (altho he wasn't my English teacher - I was just in his study hall) when I was twelve who handed me his well-worn copy of The Illustrated Man one day and told me he thought I'd enjoy it. I did, and I probably still have more Ray Bradbury books on my fiction shelf than books by any other author except for Terry Pratchett. It was a long and passionate affair, lol.

Er, I mean with Bradbury's books. NOT THE ENGLISH TEACHER.

I remember reading Lord of the Flies more than once, so I must've liked it. Can't say I cared too much for the movie when I finally saw it though. TBH I don't remember getting too into any of the American authors we read, not the modern ones anyway. I loved certain of the books, To Kill A Mockingbird for instance, but of course she didn't write anything else. Well and I kind of developed a fondness for what we read of Steinbeck later on, but I don't think I appreciated it at the time. And I completely bailed on James Fenimore Cooper, I can't remember what I read to make up for not reading the assigned book there. (I had a very understanding lit teacher, who would let me get away with choosing something else to read if I just couldn't muster an interest in something on the standard list.)

But I feel I've made up for this since by watching The Last of the Mohicans about two zillion times.

Oh but I liked some the older dudes - Hawthorne, Poe. Still have my high school copy of Moby Dick too, all dog-eared and floppy and with passages highlighted in 3-4 different colors from when I was pulling together my essay on same.

But most of the literature that I remember really loving and following up on in later years on my own was from English Lit. Shakespeare, Dickens, some of the poets, Joseph Conrad... who I still find amazing considering that English was not his native language and he apparently learned it "on the job" during his time in the British Merchant Marines. And from the "intro to lit" course we had freshman year that covered stuff from all over the place.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I probably still have more Ray Bradbury books on my fiction shelf than books by any other author except for Terry Pratchett.

Besides Fahrenheit I never read any of Bradbury's other works. Must be because of that awful mini-series "The Martian Chronicles".

Never read any of Terry Pratchett's works. The only YA type books I read were by RAH. Plus I was never in to Fantasy.

I remember reading Lord of the Flies more than once, so I must've liked it.

Funny I read it more than once as well. But that was because I was switched from the Remedial English class to the Normal English class. I had also read The Scarlet Letter before I was required to read it for my Normal English class. So I did really good on the exams for those books.

We had to read Dicken's A tale of two cities. I kinda liked the movie better since the book just dragged on and on at the pace the class was reading it, it was the "Major Book" of that term or something. I was thinking the whole time "I've seen Star Trek II- I know how this ends..."

I had to read The Perl which I thought was a "alright" book. But...

The only other book I remember reading for school was "Flight of the Intruder" when we got to pick our own book for a final project. I aced it, I also had the distinction of being the one to cause the computer showing our "Mac PowerPoint Ripoff" presentation to break down. (Hay it was nearly half a Meg... that was huge back then!)

Funny thinking back about doing a project on a book about an endless war and psychological trauma, because before that project we had our "write anything paper for college prep" project. I chose threats of WMD from third world countries. I turned this paper in on September 10, 2001. When I got the paper back written in the margin near a section on I think it was missile defense or what not the teach had wrote, "Not if they use our own planes."

[krashkart]

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's it. I'm moving to Finland and bringing plenty of sausage.

Originally Posted by 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.

OTOH, California is much closer than Finland.



Should I be worried that the list does not include Hunter S. Thompson. Or Douglas Adams.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Besides Fahrenheit I never read any of Bradbury's other works. Must be because of that awful mini-series "The Martian Chronicles".

Read the book. Muuuuuuch better. YMMV of course but I remember the miniseries too and thank goodness I read the book beforehand.

Never read any of Terry Pratchett's works. The only YA type books I read were by RAH. Plus I was never in to Fantasy.

Most of Pratchett's books are not YA, although they would probably be suitable for younger folks. While they are set in a "fantasy" world of Pratchett's own creation, they have long since departed from his original intent (at least with the Discworld series), which was to write a parody of a bad sword & sorcerer novel... there having been so many of them around at the time due to the sudden mass market popularity of Tolkien's stuff. And I would say that they have, for the most part, long since left behind any of the presumed limitations of the fantasy genre overall. If anything, they've become utterly brilliant satires on the human condition (even if he uses many "non-human" characters in the process).

I would not hesitate to compare him with the likes of Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Terry Pratchett had accomplished as much as he has done so far, but in some other genre that folks are more inclined to take seriously, he'd have a Nobel prize by now.

We had to read Dicken's A tale of two cities. I kinda liked the movie better

OMG Ronald Colman. The thinking woman's Errol Flynn. It was on just the other night. But I loved the book too.

Funny thinking back about doing a project on a book about an endless war and psychological trauma, because before that project we had our "write anything paper for college prep" project. I chose threats of WMD from third world countries. I turned this paper in on September 10, 2001. When I got the paper back written in the margin near a section on I think it was missile defense or what not the teach had wrote, "Not if they use our own planes."

Okay now that is just eerie.