- ISBN13: 9780061845062
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Welcome to the world of the Philadelphia Lawyer-a man of two identities. By day he is a mild-mannered attorney, one who has practiced in a wide variety of legal fields from criminal to corporate to personal injury, earning himself a stellar reputation in the Philadelphia legal community as a hardnosed and astute litigator. By night, his drunken and drug induced escapades are all that keep him going, as he moves from bar to party to bed in the hopes that somehow he c… More >>
Happy Hour Is for Amateurs: Work Sucks. Life Doesn’t Have To.
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#1 by Bruce Oksol on April 25, 2010 - 9:51 am
That’s all I can say. This is a sad commentary on the students that enter law school. It certainly does a disservice to the many who are passionate about their vocation, but it probably represents the shallowness and callousness of the majority of law students.
Besides the content, this is not great literature. This is 21st-century blogging in a soft cover. I would not recommend it even for light entertainment while flying transcontinental.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by takingadayoff on April 25, 2010 - 12:44 pm
In Happy Hour is For Amateurs, The Philadelphia Lawyer takes us from his days as a young law student all the way to his days as a young lawyer. In the first two chapters, our hero ingests numerous narcotics and alcoholic beverages, “dates” a number of women, even though he considers them ugly, and finds himself surrounded by the stupidest bunch of losers on the planet. Occasionally he finds a woman who is not ugly, and who doesn’t mind “dating” him. He studies these women in clinical detail, apparently so he will be able to recreate their “personalities” on his blog. A gentleman AND a scholar.
As intriguing as the first few chapters are, I think I’ll pass on the rest of the story. The blurb describes this as “outrageous, juvenile, raucous, and entertaining.” At least they got the “juvenile” part right.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by K. Nettles on April 25, 2010 - 2:50 pm
I chose this book thinking that I would get an insider’s view of the legal profession, with a few bar stories thrown in.
Instead, the reader treats us to the story of how he has wasted his life using drugs and alcohol, all the while feeling superior to anyone who might actually be trying to earn a day’s pay. The drug and alchol abuse continues well into his marriage and the fathering of a child. Isn’t that special?
Don’t waste your time on this undeserved ego trip.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by A customer on April 25, 2010 - 4:37 pm
Reminds me of a combination of Lynda Obst’s hostility to obstacles in “Hello, He lied” and some riff on the daily life of objectified encounters with women and narcissism from Ellis’s “American Psycho”. If you don’t have access to something like the National Law Journal in a law library then there is new information on the profession. But to get to that daily life slice you have to get though the scatological moments and general demeanor towards women that I think makes this unlikely to be an attractive book to a general business audience. The life observations seem pretty basic of someone that is young enough that I don’t know if older people want to wade through this. The audience seems to be twenty something men legal world bound who consider themselves very cool and for this audience alone I can recommend this as a quick read.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by crown of indica on April 25, 2010 - 6:53 pm
it was a pretty cool book.the story’s about a hunter s thompson-type guy,so there are tons of stories put into the “big story”.if you like bars,are a bartender or lawyer,or just like books that have a lot of gab and funny moments in them this is pretty good!
Rating: 4 / 5