What are some good Yea Forumss about alcoholism

begbie, aye laddie?

your mums diary

Jack Kerouac's autobiographical shit. It's good tho, often very comfy.

this desu

this

>giving Antarctica to a chicken

You barbarian

Almost done reading Ham on Rye right now.
Gonna do Post Office after I reckon.
Really good book.

The Lost Weekend is probably the best novel about alcoholism ever written.

Under the Volcano desu

Donald Newlove's Sweet Adversity

This

Alcoholics are rich. Imagine being too poor to afford food.

a farewell to arms

wrong

Alcohol isn't free brainlet. If you can afford to drink daily, then you have money. Unless you're guzzling some E85, then get the fuck out of here.

>alcohol isn't free
yeah but a 1.75 liter bottle of rotgut vodka is pretty damn cheap - the equivalent of 40 shots. you can work a low-wage job and easily afford the $15-20 to freedom
poor alcoholics exist and they find a way. my dad said when he was a kid that his dad just fucking stole his paper route money to buy booze. we're not talking grey goose here dummy

Nah first prize
He wasn’t in the movie

>$20 a day to waste
I can't even afford a fucking hamburger.

Moscow to the End of the Line is essential

The Iceman Cometh
The Sun Also Rises
Big Sur
John Barleycorn

>$20 a day
40 drinks in a day? try 2-3 days and you're still an alcoholic
>i can't even afford a hamburger
then what the fuck are you doing on here. you clearly don't work the low-wage job i mentioned. do you live in LA come to my apartment i'll make you spaghetti

4u

Chekhov's plays are full of alcoholics. Also Long Day's Journey into Night

Fancy fuck and your $20 handle.

Just make the commitment and start buying $10 two liter bottles of pure ethanol mouth wash goodness, its minty.

AA's big book. Will have you reaching for a drink.

What book is it

Some of the stories in the back are pretty intense.

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Infinite Jest unironically

Ty

Wake in Fright

E85 is $1.75 a gallon. Even cheaper.

has anyone read this? Fallada is good

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This

Absolutely yes

The Green Man - Kingsly

This

>The Drinker was begun in 1944 when Hans Fallada was imprisoned in a criminal asylum for the attempted murder of his wife. Author of two previous novels, his third, The Drinker, is autobiographical and tells the story, in diary form, of a man driven by the demons of morphine and alcohol.
Neat.

The Drinker, Robert Lowell

The man is killing time—there’s nothing else.
No help now from the fifth of Bourbon
chucked helter-skelter into the river,
even its cork sucked under.

Stubbed before-breakfast cigarettes
burn bull’s-eyes on the bedside table;
a plastic tumbler of alka seltzer
champagnes in the bathroom.

No help from his body, the whale’s
warm-hearted blubber, foundering down
leagues of ocean, gasping whiteness.
The barbed hooks fester. The lines snap tight.

When he looks for neighbors, their names blur in the window,
his distracted eye sees only glass sky.
His despair has the galvanized color
of the mop and water in the galvanized bucket.

Once she was close to him
as water to the dead metal.

He looks at her engagements inked on her calendar.
A list of indictments.
At the numbers in her thumbed black telephone book.
A quiver full of arrows.

Her absence hisses likes steam,
the pipes sing . . .
even corroded metal somehow functions.
He snores in his iron lung,

and hears the voice of Eve,
beseeching freedom from the Garden’s
perfect and ponderous bubble. No voice
outsings the serpent’s flawed, euphoric hiss.

The cheese wilts in the rat-trap,
the milk turns to junket in the cornflakes bowl,
car keys and razor blades
shine in an ashtray.

Is he killing time? Out on the street
two cops on horseback clop through the April rain
to check the parking meter violations—
their oilskins yellow as forsythia.

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Hemingway, of course. Sun Also Rises especially

You should try the sequel, Ham on Rice

long road ahead, clownlet

I've read it, it's great.

alcoholics buy their bottle before they buy anything else (food, bills, etc.). I know some really fucked up people working minimum wage who steal food from work so they can spend all their money on booze.

Based

I've had maybe six drinks in the past two months. No idea why but I suddenly lost all desire for the stuff. Hopefully God is preparing me for something :)

Based

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E85 is anywhere from 51% to 83% ethanol, depending on where you are, in the cold north it will be closer to %51, but even at the ideal of 85% ethanol you would not want to drink it, still %15 gasoline or some other hydrocarbon, most all of which you do not want to drink.

>other hydrocarbon
That reminds me of something from Brendan Behan. They always let the first (seven?) drops of potcheen fall out of the still for the faeries. Later, in discussion with a chemist, he became aware that most of the toxic distillates are contained in the first few drops.

The heads and tails, first out and last out, from a still are mostly methanol, the further you extend the heads and tails into the body the closer you are to pure ethanol.

This is one of the big things that separate cheap booze from good booze, the cheap keep as much of the heads and tails as they can which is what gives it its rubbing alcohol quality and the stronger hangover.

At $1.59 a gallon, I'll take my fuckin chances. It sure beats mouth wash, that's for sure.

That makes enough sense. I never distilled, though. I only ever did a straight fermentation - but I did use this:
>amazon.com/Lalvin-EC-1118-Yeast-Lallemand-Inc/dp/B002LQBSIO
which puts it at 18%. I keep it cool to help keep the methanol down.

a clean well-lighted place by Hemingway
learning.hccs.edu/faculty/samuel.huntington/engl1302/materials-for-the-8-week-cinco-ranch-section/additional-readings-and-handouts/a-clean-well-lighted-place-by-ernest-hemingway/at_download/file
also anything else by hunter s thompson or hemingway

why do you have to call me out like this i thought i was safe here

For real why didn't anybody tell me about how great liquor was.

I didn't drink at all in High School and most of college but now that alcohol is easily available I'm fully on board. I mean I rarely drink with other people but alone it's just so perfectly paired with listening to music, playing vidya, watching a movie and of course reading. I don't think I'm an alcoholic or anything but it truly is a blessing that you can get this stuff at a goddamn gas station.

>i thought i was safe here
When you pass out I'm going to draw dicks on your face.

alcohol is just really great
cheers

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this. one of my favorite books

A farewell to arms
The shining

you can get a 2 liter of triple distilled local vodka in the midwest for $10 and it's way better than the rotgut mccormicks stuff. being a functioning alcoholic got really easy for me

don't put anything in my butt or mouth while you're at it haha

John Cheever

MEU BRASIL VARONIL

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