Everyday Drinking, Kingsley Amis – Not your usual drunk’s tale

Wow!  Everyday Drinking: The Distilled – Sir Kingsley Amis, 302 pages. $19.99. Bloomsbury
- is one a weird book.

 

For confirmed alcoholics - it has good news: drink more cheap stuff and don't sweat the frou-frou; the disturbing info: he died of consequences of the habit.

 

One exemplary example: his recipe for martinis is 6.66666666% vermouth and 93.75% gin exactly. 

 

He tosses off terribly funny sentences - for instance, on how to treat one’s guests (sods) but the plupart of the tome is incredibly boring.

 

As an example: his parsing of a hangover reaches philosophic heights.

 

My advice: If it’s loaned to you (as it was to me) read it Evelyn Wood style, it’s got a few bons mots but……………