by Tucker Max
First published 2012
Tucker Max brings his autobiographical storytelling to a close with thirty previously untold tales from his years of deliberate misbehavior. The collection spans his law school days working in Cancun to his systematic psychological warfare against a neurotic roommate over condiment placement. Max recounts legal battles with a beauty pageant contestant who objected to his public revelations about her, explains his theory on Halloween's superiority as a holiday, and warns against accepting baked goods from van-dwelling hippies. The stories chronicle sexting exchanges, wedding disasters, bachelor party chaos, and an incident involving Miss Vermont that publishers initially refused to include. Max presents these final confessions as the capstone to a series that began with a single provocative sentence on an obscure website and grew into bestselling books. He frames this collection as both a literal and figurative explosive finale to his documented assholery, acknowledging that his approach to life carries consequences even as it delivers the outrageous results his readers expect.
Genres: humor, autobiography, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Cancun
448 pages · Hardcover · Blue Heeler Books
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content