“I want to be Tucker Max” is what a lot of Max’s readers thought after finishing I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.

As a senior in college, I felt the same way.  I wanted to sleep with a ton of girls, have a loyal group of friends, drop out of school and become famous too.  Who wouldn’t?

Most of all, though, I wanted to be Tucker Max because his life is so freaking easy.  Max is, in essence, a male version of Paris Hilton. He gets paid to show up at parties, members of the opposite sex want to sleep with him (as you can see from the HooplaNow.com photo gallary) and he manipulates the media so his fans see him in a positive light.

In the list of three in the previous paragraph, I was going to use “talentless” instead of the manipulating the media point.  Even though I think Max and his lifestyle are at least partially fabricated, I must admit that he does have a talent.

That talent is his writing style.

Max writes in a conversational tone that allows young audiences to connect and fly through his stories. Personally, my favorite things to read for entertainment are blogs and newspaper stories written in a similar tone to how Max wrote his book.

Then, if you add in shared experiences that nearly every person who went to college between the ages of 18-35 have had (sex, alcohol, the shock value of an abundance of fecal matter in a story), it’s easy to see why Max’s book was successful.

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This post was written by Eric Van Dril.  For more of his writing, check out RipcordNews.com.