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A Short History of Drunkenness

Auteur(s): Mark Forsyth
Narrateur(s): Richard Hughes
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth, read by Sh*tfaced Shakespeare's Richard Hughes.

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle.

A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies.

This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.

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My favourite book of this and possibly any other Christmas is Mark Forsyth's A Short History of Drunkenness (Marcus Berkmann)
Forsyth's jokes are snappy and well delivered. Unlike most comical writers he never falls into the trap of confusing long-windedness with irony (Craig Brown)
Haha! . . . Highly suitable for Xmas! (Margaret Atwood)
This entertaining study of drunkenness makes for a racy sprint through human history (Christopher Hart)
A brisk and brilliant romp through our hiccoughing history, drenched with wit. Bloody marvellous from first sip to last burp (Jason Hazeley, co-author of the Ladybird series (including 'The Ladybird Book of the Quiet Night In' and 'The Ladybird Book of the Hangover')
Reading like a TED talk delivered by a stand-up comedian, this made me laugh out loud more than my first ever night out on absinthe. As essential as a hip flask or a pack of pork scratchings for any true connoisseur of booze. A Short History of Drunkenness is this year's Châteauneuf-du-Pape of Christmas books, no less. Bloody entertaining. (Emlyn Rees, author of 'The Very Hungover Caterpillar' and 'We're Going on a Bar Hunt')
Sometimes you see a book title that simply gladdens the heart. Everyone I showed this book to either smiled broadly or laughed out loud . . . This is a book of some brilliance - probably best consumed with a restorative glass of something by your side. (Marcus Berkmann)
As Mark Forsyth brilliantly shows, civilisation is built on booze. Egypt (beer), Greece and Rome (wine) depended on alcohol to create their mighty works. Where man drinks, he prospers, and vice versa. A toast to this spirits-fuelled spirits-lifter. Staggering! (Harry Mount, editor of The Oldie)
I thought I knew quite a bit about drinking but A Short History of Drunkenness made me look at inebriation anew. Each chapter amazed, challenged and stimulated me so much that I needed a stiff drink at the end of it. (Henry Jeffreys, author of Empire of Booze)
With a great eye for a story and a counterintuitive argument, Mark Forsyth has enormous fun breezing through 10,000 years of alcoholic history in a little more than 250 pages. (Henry Jeffreys)
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Overall a fantastic book with an amazing performance by the reader. The reader was truly able to demonstrate the dry British Monty Python type humour. My only issue with the book was the way it was compressed. Chronologically and Geographically you jump around throughout each chapter, I know the author was mainly representing cultural aspects of drinking, but it lead to me feeling no relation to the culture from a topical point of view. What Im saying is the book just sums up the ways different people drank throughout history. It is written with a light funny tone, and a laid-back storytelling experience.

TL;DR This book is intended for those that like a fun twist on telling history. People who enjoy a more in depth explicit telling of history may not enjoy it as much.

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