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Sunday, October 03, 2004


The good news is that you're a 20-something college student and you got your first book published. The bad news is that your books is all about how you got wasted all the time. And what's worse is that your mom is probably going to read it.
In Mark R. Dye's College and the Art of Partying, casual sex, drinking and smoking pot are the norms. The writer, a twenty-something, first-time author, paints a compelling image of what it is to party in college. According to the author there is an definite art to partying, and drawing on his college experience at Colorado State University, where he was definitely an AOPer (Dye's own acronym for "Art of Partying"), he writes this crude and dark, yet surprising philosophical "guide."
Yes, because getting drunk and stoned all the time in college is such a unique experience, it must be shared with the world! But I bet it's a good way to get laid, right?
For example, he goes into great, and almost inappropriate lengths (i.e. two whole pages)to "accurately" describe his friend Cyndi's breasts. From his distincly[sic] male perspecive [sic], her boobs are a work of art that needs addressing.
I bet his mom really likes that part. Almost as much as Cyndi does.



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