If you enjoy consuming alcohol and wish to make a sport of it, this book is for you!
Author and Seattle-native Alex Bash sides with drinkers in "The Imbible: Drinking Games for Times You'll Never Remember with Friends You'll Never Forget."
"The Imbible" is meant to be humorous - while informative - sort of a quick guide to take full advantage of the drunken experience.
Supposedly, Bash works at a hospital, yet there is no mention of which one. On the back cover, readers are urged to visit his Web site, www.alexbash.com, which is a collaboration of cheesy pictures promoting his book, a blog and viewer's comments.
Bash begins by explaining why a person should drink, being "drunk = not sucking, reality = kind of sucking."
Using this logic, he advocates drunkenness. Some of his pro-drinking arguments are convincing, while others can be easily seen as justification of irresponsible drinking.
Bash begins to lose credibility as the book continues, but the introduction allows the reader to feel his style.
"The Imbible" is broken up into sections: classic games, card games, dice games, coin games, miscellaneous games, movie games and table of contents of drinking games (where you drink each time the word "drink" is read).
Each mini chapter has two to three pages on the objectives, rules and supplies needed for game play.
Remember, there is no real losing in any of the games. Everyone who gets drunk is a winner, Bash implies.
It may be easier to understand the rules if you read through them a couple of times. For example, in the card game Beerquake, where the main objective is to beat the dealer by achieving a total of 10.5 or closer to it, the assignment of number values for cards is confusing. I wouldn't advise starting to drink without reading the rules first.
Mexico is a dice game where two dice are in a nontransparent cup, the cup is shaken and slammed down, while the person whose turn is up peeks at the value. He calls out a value and someone calls his bluff. If the bluffer is right, the other man drinks, and vice versa.
The best games are the movie games. Scarface is a game that requires the movie "Scarface," obviously. The rules are easy; when someone on the screen says, "F***," you drink.
Then there is "Wedding Crashers." To make watching the film memorable, drink every time someone on screen does. Also, "each time Vince Vaughn speaks hilariously fast, drink three," and "each time Owen Wilson's voice sounds especially whiny, drink two and wish your soft, high voice could pull that many girls."
Students who love classic games like beer pong and flip cup could benefit from Bash's explanation of the rules.
Before making weekend plans, search for a copy of "The Imbible" to assist your desire for drunkenness. But skip the intro.
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