/lit/ - Literature

>literature that is enhanced by the effects of alcohol
Do people really read when they're drunk? Won't you just forget everything the next day?

>>14591603
>imagine not being able to control your alcohol intake to the point you can’t remember what you did night prior

>>14591547
Everything Bukowski.

>>14592019

Man if I drink more than one beer I can't read and retain anything more complex than, say, Dune.

>>14592019
OP asked for good literature for alcoholics, who generally cannot control their intake.
Also, it's not about being unable to remember what happened the previous, but being unable to process complex information to the point of retention.

>>14592365
>Also, it's not about being unable to remember what happened the previous, but being unable to process complex information to the point of retention.
oh, thats not the case at all. I "lose time" or blackout or whatever. There is a whole 'nother version of me, drunk me, that has his own life and adventures. He's apparently funny and outgoing, and generally better liked than I am.

So I guess I'm recommending fight club. Not a good book per se, but on topic.

Fitzgerald is made to read drunk. Thats how it was written

>>14591603
generally four drinks is a solid reading state for me

it's a genuine problem for that i can't concentrate on reading when i get drunk, but i keep veering into drinking every day
books that i read when drunk are extremely trashy shallow ones that i don't care about or comics
books ABOUT being an alcoholic, my favourites are the drinker by fallada and disturbing the peace by richard yates

>>14591547

>>14591547
anything hunter thompson

Blood Meridian with Bourbon is a top-tier combination, bonus points if you own a BP pistol you can finger fuck.

>>14591547
bukowski

that motherfucker ruined poetry for me.

>>14592068
my man

>>14591603
drunkness impairing you is a myth.

>>14592903
i'm drunk and i missed out the word 'me' from >>14592500
explain that

>>14592913
you're just a retard. don't blame the booze. you see, the blood was always meant to have a certain level of alcohol in it. the kidneys were actually never meant to exist, but weak soibois with little babby livers couldn't handle the natural alcohol produced in the blood, so they evolved to have cuckidneys. now, we're all living in cucked bodies with kidneys because of some faggot in the family tree, but if we're not faggots ourselves, the optimal thing is to have a certain amount of alcohol in the blood at all times. this is how you operate at peak performance. haven't you ever wondered why you feel like shit when you're not drunk?

stream of consciousness works very well here to describe what both drunkenness and addiction feel like.

>>14592068
This.

>>14591547
read about how to manage your drinking problem.

>>14591547
>What's some good literature to read when you're an alcoholic?
Faggot Redditor. In a year you'll be talking to your hipster friends about how you were an alcoholic and got the shakes every day when you didn't drink, am I right?

>>14591603
Alcohol hits alcoholics differently
When I was at my peak of drinking I could kill a six pack and immediately feel fine driving
Now that I don't drink much I'll have to wait a half hour to drive after only like 3 beers

>>14592019
ive been their but it's normally i just drank one more beer then i remember then go to bed.

>>14592086
same here. im sloppy and lazy as hell on booze. trying to play video games is a joke too. you fuck up all the damn time.

>>14592936
sold

>>14593553
Imagine being such a gaylord that you ask your fellow Redditors how to be a "cool" alcoholic. Real alcoholics just get fucking drunk and do shit. Hahahaha.

>>14591547
Bukowski definitely

>>14593579
>being who you wish you were and not who you are
A classic as old as time
Speaking of which, it would be interesting to get some hard stats on the % of Rick and Morty fans that project being an alcoholic cause rick is sooo cool vs. % of Rick and Morty fans that are actual alcoholics. When I die I want all the answers to unknowable questions, even ones as bad as this.

>>14591547
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson.

>>14591547
Baudelaire obviously.