Synopses & Reviews
For some people, happy hour is never enough
This is a book about escape. It's also about laughing gas. And bourbon and dope and sex and mushrooms and every other vice millions of us indulge in to forget our jobs, the office, and the stifling, corporate caricatures we're forced to become for paychecks. This is a book about a decade lost in a senseless career no one likes and all the ridiculous things I did to run from it. In the end, it's probably your story as much as mine. We're everywhere. We just can't say it out loud.
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“Raucous, hilarious, and disturbing in all the right ways. I got drunk just reading this book.” A.J. Baime, Executive Editor, Playboy
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“The Philadelphia Lawyer leaps off the printed page like a seersuckered superhero -- a literary lothario Hunter S. Thompson would have been proud to call ‘Counselor.” Mark Ebner, co-author of Hollywood Interrupted
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“I was fired from my first legal job within a month, and this book explains why it was the best thing to ever happen to me.” Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
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“A rollicking, booze-fueled joyride through the dark underbelly of the American legal system.” Frank Kelly Rich, author of The Modern Drunkard
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“Drinking, drugging and the ungallant pursuit of the female form...the author serves up some raucous fun and boozy amusement -- just like any happy hour.” Cleveland Plain Dealer
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“Takes sex, drugs and rock n roll deep into the bowels of modern law. If justice is blind, then The Philadelphia Lawyer is the pop cultures new canine guide for the visually impaired...intensely insightful.” Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
Based on the hit anonymous blog of the same name comes this no-holds-barred look at one lawyer's drunken and debauched strategy for surviving inside the American legal system.
Synopsis
“I was fired from my first legal job within a month, and this book explains why it was the best thing to ever happen to me.”
—Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
The anonymous author who calls himself “The Philadelphia Lawyer” is an enormously popular blogger with an enthusiastic online fan base. With Happy Hour is for Amateurs, he brings his hilarious, biting, spot-on rants, revelations, and remembrances to the printed page. Part Office Space, part Howard Stern—with a bit of Bukowski thrown in for good measure—Happy Hour is for Amateurs is a drunken and debauched tour through the courtrooms, bars, and bedrooms of the American legal system. As The Philadelphia Lawyers subtitle so succinctly puts it, “Work Sucks. Life Doesnt Have To.”
About the Author
The Philadelphia Lawyer is the anonymous mind behind the popular blog The Philadelphia Lawyer. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife.