Drink Play Fk One Mans Search For Anything Across Ireland Las Vegas And Thailand

In Drink, Play, F @ # k Bob Sullivan, a jilted husband, sets off to explore the World, experience a Meaningful Connection With The Divine, and rediscover history passion. His travels lead HIM from historical home in New York City to a drinking bender across Ireland, Through the Glitz and Glamour That Is Las Vegas, and hedonistic pleasure palaces To The of Thailand. After a lifetime of playing it safe, Mr. Sullivan finally FOLLOWS historical heart out and everyone's lives Deepest fantasies. Who Among Us Has not for Dreamed of standing stark naked, head upturned, mouth agape and Beneath a cascading torrent of Guinness Stout? What Could Be More Than Losing exhilarating every penny You Have Because Charlie Weiss Went For A Meaningless last-second field goal? And What sensate creature Could Ever Doubt That The Greatest pleasure Known to Man Can Be Found in a leaky bamboo shack Filled With glassy-eyed, bruised Asian hookers? Bob Sullivan has a lot to teach us about life. Let's just pray We Have the wisdom to put aside preconceptions and listen o. Because Bob Sullivan Finds What Is not What did all he expected.

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Robert Ihde says...

I was looking for a book to read while on my last beach vacation, and I was lured in by the title "Drink, Play, F@#k.I had not heard of the book "Eat Pray Love", and so I had no basis on the layout, or if it tried to satire the original, if indeed that was the intention.

As noted in a previous review...I too, was hoping for a little more energy, creative storytelling, and "guy talk", but what we received was 38 chapters with no cohesiveness, forced gambling metaphors, and upper-echelon frivolous disrespect for money with the occasional "Dennis Miller-like" caveat on Monday night football....which as we all know does not work.



I stopped reading this book 4 times, but had a 5 hour flight on the way back, I was so bored I finished it.

Here, I will summarize the book into 3 chapters:

Chapter 1 - My wife left me, I have enough money so I went to Ireland and got drunk daily.

Chapter 2 - My wife is still not with me, I have enough money so I went to Las Vegas, made frivoulous wagers, got drunk a lot, and played golf.

Chapter 3 - My wife is still not with me, I have enough money so I went to Thailand, to a ridiculously expensive and exclusive resort, had sex with a young woman, found my morals and my future ex-wife.



I would have tried to sell this book on Amazon, but I threw it in the trash, as I unpacked.

Posted on January 26, 2011

Chiquita Rapalo says...

My wife's book club recently read "Eat Pray Love". They had the terrible idea of asking their husbands to read "Eat Play F@k" and then attend a book club together. This was the most painful book I have ever read in my adult life. The only possible redeeming value is that he was making fun of another book where the women must have been selfish without a shred of wisdom. But even if that is the case what a collosal waste of time. I found it annoying how he bragged about everything. And his stories were rediculous and so obviously made up. (I prefer non-fiction) I understand that was part of the gag but I truly wish I did not have to read this book.

Posted on January 26, 2011

Celestine Sen says...

I was so looking forward to getting a good laugh out of this book.I really tried to like it but just couldn't get on board.The author just wasn't funny or exciting enough for me.If you're going to have the word "f@#k" in the title of your book, your readers will assume it's going to be a raunchy, crazy good time.But unfortunately it wasn't.The author actually refuses to kiss and tell which is so odd when you think about the title of the book.Very disappointing.

Posted on January 27, 2011

Tamela Deblase says...

Three words for this hysterical, witty, GENIUS novel. 1: Oh. 2: My. 3: God. A satire on the novel Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert), comedian writer Andrew Gottlieb nails the angry husband who takes a year off dedicated to drinking, gambling and, well, f@#king. The protagonist, Bob Sullivan, is in Ireland when he notes that his ex-wife was on "some kind of whirlwind transcontinental spiritual journey. Yet one more idea of mine that she copied that I'll never get any credit for." (page 51). The intrinsic connections to the Eat Pray Love story are masterful without being overwhelming or obvious - so much so, this story would stand alone if you'd never even heard of Eat Pray Love. If every story has two sides, Drink Play F@#k is a convincing version of a scorned husband's tale of a marriage break-up and subsequent quests to discover what really matters in life: happiness.

Posted on January 27, 2011

Karen Vear says...

Having read " Eat, pray, love", I eagerly awaited for the parody on the title. However, there is not even one humorous or witty sentence in this entire book. If this guy can go to print,then by all means, we can all become published writers.I hardly review books but this one was such a mess,I just had to issue a warning. Don't bother reading it unless you like repetitive, stale writting that leaves you disappointed and bored.

Posted on January 28, 2011

Alfredo Sardina says...

The premise of this book is great: parody Eat, Pray, Love.Few books are as ripe for parody as that one.I mean, how can anyone mess that up?Well, Gottlieb did.What he delivers is a sterilized, homogenized, made-for-TV tale of a guy I suspect is really patterned after John Glenn when he was a younger man, but on estrogen.It is obvious this story panders to the female book-buying audience and Bob Sullivan comes off as a made-acceptable character who apologizes constantly for being male.There's no other explanation for the constant I'm-not-really-that-guy disclaimers that quickly become Sullivan's mantra. Well, if he's not that guy then why was he written as the main character?Wouldn't a parody mean he should be the antithesis of the lady from Eat, Pray, Love?Bob Sullivan's friends are right out of a screen writing 101 class, becoming Bob's bad-boy, yet acceptable, yet wouldn't want to marry, guides to the protagonist's journey into his supposed debauchery; the debauchery that never seems to pick up steam or muster any credibility.But there was no real debauchery, except for maybe the frat-boy drinking, which Gottlieb could get away with without turning off a female audience.And there's no f@#king.No there wasn't.A brief yet somehow made-acceptable tryst with the girl from India, and then he falls madly in love while laid up in his sick bed.Yeah, that's real debauchery tempered with an eye toward book sales to the fairer sex.Why am I so disappointed with this book?Because I expected to be at least slightly entertained and never thought I would have my intelligence insulted with such a trite, backpeddling and poorly constructed attempt at parody.And for believing, once again, some glowing reviews without checking to see what other books the reviewers have reviewed.Stupid me.

Posted on January 30, 2011

Dreama Swant says...

Not a bad book, but not great either.With so many other good books out there, don't waste your time with this one.



Before reading, I briefly glanced at some of the Amazon reviews; most were only lukewarm.Thinking the other reviews might have been a bit harsh, I gave the book the benefit of the doubt, purchased, and read.Mistake.



With a word like "f@#k" in the title, I expected the book to be a bit more edgy.What the book delivered was much milder- a recently divorced, middle age man going through somewhat of a midlife crises in the form of one year across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand.Sounds promising and full of potential, right?Nothing nearly as provocative as you might expect.Most of the potentially edgy scenarios are glossed over or omitted entirely.To be fair, some of the vignettes are OK, but again, everything is overall very mild.

Posted on February 1, 2011

Hiedi Zelle says...

Parody can be the funniest of all types of humor, so it was with high expectations that when I saw the book cover of Andrew Gottlieb's, Drink, Play, [...], as a match to Elizabeth Gilbert's popular Eat, Pray, Love, I picked it up with relish. I had given Gilbert a two-star rating, and never bothered to write a review. Following a divorce, protagonist Bob Sullivan decides to let himself go loose for the first time in his life, and see what happens. His first step was to drink, and he did that with gusto in Ireland, meeting compatible characters and telling stories to all who would listen. I wish this book had such gusto, but the drinking episode came across as maudlin. The pace picked up when Bob heads to Vegas to play, and along the way meets a guru who guides him through the Vegas games. The gambling, golfing and playing had little humor and unexceptional stories. At just the right time, the guru suggests the pleasures of Thailand, and Bob ends up in a remote resort to enjoy great physical satisfaction, until a car accident. While I laughed at times, there just wasn't enough laughter to make the full parody work. By the end of the book, I couldn't care less what happened to Bob.



Rating: One-star (Read only if your interest is strong)

Posted on February 3, 2011

Ahmed Jara says...

Cleverness, intelligent writing, quirky characters . . . all characteristics of good satire.Good satire also requires that you assume many of the characteristics of the original work.The reason why good satire works is that it's probably more difficult to write than the original work.Good satire has to equal or surpass the cleverness of the original work.



This book doesn't fulfill the needs of good satire, unfortunately. This is just plain bad.It's predictable and not clever at all It's simply a piece of writing written by a guy who wants to poke fun at women who were inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love. In his effort to give the reader the impression that he doesn't take himself seriously, he comes off as trying to convince the reader to take him seriously. If I met this author, I'd probably walk away thinking that he was a fat Southern Republican frat boy who was never forced to stand on his own two feet.



If you like satire, read the Harvard Lampoon's satirical work on the Twilight series . . . "Nightlight" is clever.Any Twilight haters will roll on the floor when reading this novel.Twilight lovers will enjoy it as well.It's a great bathroom book and can be read quickly or in small bits.

Posted on February 4, 2011

Edwina Biehle says...

When I picked this book up at the store I loved the title and I loved the blurbs about the book on the back so much that I had to have it! Based on these two things I bought this book and finished it within a week. It was a fun and interesting read but I really thought the book had more potential than what it gave. The main character Bobby just got a divorce so he goes on a world wind adventure of debauchery that spans across Ireland, Vegas, and Thailand. The adventures that he lives out are every man's dream he drinks in Ireland, gambles in Vegas, and of course has sex in Thailand. The writer delivers some great one liners and amusing anecdotes but all in all the book really fell short. It felt like all the chapters were rushed and while this is a good book it's not a great book. I know that this book was written as an impudent which is funny but in the end the whole book is very predictable and written somewhat (for my tastes) like a romantic comedy. Guy's wife is mean, guy's wife cheats, he gets divorced, goes out and gets drunk, fornicates, finds himself, then hopes to find someone else. To me that formula is directly linked to most romantic comedies and for being somewhat unoriginal is why I give it only three stars. The book was a good read don't get me wrong! It just wasn't what I thought it was. It was entertaining yet not filled with the craziness that embodies a great title like, "Drink, Play, F@#k".

Posted on February 5, 2011