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Chargement... Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis (1983)par Kingsley Amis
  
Books Read in 2011 (395) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  grandpahobo | Apr 7, 2015 |   Kingsley Amis Wednesday, July 24, 2013 This volume collects "On Drink", an extended essay on cocktails, wine and wine snobs, and parties; "Everyday Drinking", a collection of short articles written originally for a magazine, and "How's your Glass" a series of mock-serious quizzes about drink, also written for a magazine. Amis is a very good comic writer. He is more of a "spirits" man than a wine or beer connoisseur. His comments on the hangover are priceless for the distinction between the physical and the moral parts of the feeling. Light but fun. (  ) neurodrew | Jul 24, 2013 | There are actually three short books in this volume. The first, and best, section is Amis's treatise on drink. It is quite funny, and some practical tips are scattered here and there. The second section reprints Amis's newspaper columns on the subject of drink, and there is some repetition here. The final section contains several alcohol-related quizzes, which might be fun after having a few. Keep this book by your bar, and remember to nip from it every now and then. It's probably the only book on the subject you'll need. (  ) sturlington | Oct 23, 2011 | Here's Kingsley Amis being Kingsley Amis. Bibulous, bilious, and quite funny. His essays display an amazing knowledge of drink -- and not a purely academic knowledge. He also shows a great deal of self knowledge; Amis knows his own charms, and his flaws, and makes the best of both sides of his character. Read this: you'll want a drink, or a better one. (  )1  DavidGoldsteen | Aug 21, 2009 |  ) emfink | Jun 15, 2009 |
 Before he was knighted in 1990, Amis published three books about the judicious but enthusiastic consumption of alcohol: “On Drink,” “Everyday Drinking” in 1983 and “How’s Your Glass?” in 1984. Long out of print, these volumes have finally been gathered together and reissued under a single cover, topped off with a fizzy introduction by Christopher Hitchens. These books are so delicious they impart a kind of contact high; they make you feel as if you’ve just had the first sip of the planet’s coldest, driest martini... One essay collected here — it deserves to be rediscovered and widely anthologized — is “Mean Sod’s Guide,” a tongue-in-cheek tutorial about how to “stint your guests on quality and quantity” while seeming to have done them very well. Among his tips for a host determined not to pour too many drinks: “Sit in a specially deep easy-chair, and practice getting out of it with a mild effort and, later in the evening, a just-audible groan.” Appartient à la sérieEveryday Drinking (Omnibus 1-3) Contient
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject- Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master's riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts- along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk - all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humour and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The second part is a compilation of weekly (I assume) newspaper columns written by the author. Some of these deal with subject covered in the first part. This section is also entertaining, though not quite as much as the first part.
The third part is a quiz on wines, beer and cocktails. I did not read this section, as the quiz aspect did not appeal to me.
All in all, a very enjoyable read. (