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Drinking Until Morning Kindle Edition

by Justin Grimbol (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This beer soaked, degenerate coming of age story follows the day-to-day trials in the darkly hysterical world of Grimboli, a chronically unemployed nobody who moves listlessly among a group of young adults from the wrong side of the tracks to an endless litany of pathetic and crazed women, bums, drunks, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls. Littered with psychic debris, self-loathing, and everything else Grimboli can find to take his mind off his completely unfulfilling life

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"This book is simply amazing. It moved me and made me laugh - imagine a Catcher in the Rye with sex scenes in it."---Seb Doubinsky, author of Spontaneous Combustions, Mothballs and Goodbye Babylon.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B016NY27O8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ ATLATL; 2nd edition (October 14, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 14, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1279 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 130 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,326,336 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #12,888 in Coming of Age Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #13,823 in General Humorous Fiction
- #28,959 in Humorous Fiction

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"If you forced Walt Whitman to write poetry about the family scrapbook full of faded polaroids that you stole from Adam Sandler’s attic, you might come close to capturing what Justin Grimbol so effortlessly does."---Danger Slater, Author of He Digs A Hole.

“Justin Grimbol is the type of person who’d eat the fries off your plate after you’ve gotten up to use the bathroom at Perkins, which means he’s a real sneaky ass—but also a great, great writer—so whatever.” --- Brian Allen Ellis, Author of Sexy Time In The Spooky House, Oh Yeah! and Failure Pie In A Sadness Face.

"It’s refreshing, reading Justin Grimbol. There’s an energy in his work that I don’t really see in most other writers." Daniel Vlasaty, author of Church Of TV As God.

"Grimbol is hands down, the dirtiest minded writer out there. But not sleazy-dirty. There is heart to the perversion." Jason Wayne Allen, author of Rotgut County Blues.

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The Baron Von Crabcakes

A Sad, Hopeful, Funny Journey Through Post-Adolescence!

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2015

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I’m just gonna say it up top. Justin Grimbol is one of my favorite writers. He’s a master at buoying juvenile humor with deeply cathartic characters.

This is the fourth book of his that I’ve read, and there are certain patterns I’ve noticed in his writing. Namely, his protagonists are always big-hearted goons who experience the world as one would experience the passing of a cloud overhead. Not in a detached sort’ve way though. More philosophical. Wistful. These characters learn that it’s the same sky touches everyone. And that same cloud casts its shadow and then just float on by. As I’ve said in my reviews of Grimbol’s other books, there’s never anything cheap about his storytelling. And for a largely plotless narrative, it’s the relatability of the characters and the squishiness of the prose that keeps the story moving forward.

This book was more grounded in reality than some of his other’s work. I suspect large chunks of it are autobiographical (his main character is named Grimboli, for god’s sake!) It’s touches on that post-adolescent time when a lot of life experience is new, and yet, there is a melancholy sort’ve anchor to it all. We’ve all been there, right? That buffer zone between being a teenager and being an adult. It’s a time to test out all your long-held childhood beliefs, yet at the same time, languish in the present and (perhaps) rue the future. But not in a depressing way. But in a hopeful way.

Look, I don’t know what I’m trying to say with this review. It’s a good book, okay? Grimbol is a great writer. If you haven’t read him, I suggest you do.

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Kirk Jones

Great Read

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2016

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This book captures the highs and lows of partying, growing up, and refusing to grow up. The happy moments outweigh the sad, and the sad are raw enough to remind us of our own pasts, and how often we pull punches when it comes to remembering our good old days. Grimbol doesn't pull punches. He tells it like it is. His prose is crisp and peppered with really unique similes that reveal his insight about life. I really enjoyed this one.

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Bo

The misadventures of young Grimboli.

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018

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Some people say that to read a work is to get to know the author. I tend to disagree with that. Many authors write about people and events that are nothing like their everyday life and world. But when reading works by Justin Grimbol, it always feels like looking into the world and mind of the author through an open window. You just sit down with a pair of binoculars and spy in on his life for a couple of hours of laughs, tears and melancholy.

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Katherine J. Parker

Reading Drinking Until Morning is like walking on eggshells.

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015

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Every page, every moment, you are waiting, afraid that if you breathe a little too loudly poor, lost Grimboli will break. The book is dirty, rough, and unapologetic… and yet it is beautiful, and remorseful, and heartbreaking. It can be startling when you find a piece of yourself in one of Grimbol’s characters. Maybe it is in the way he describes his mother’s “elephantiasis of the soul”, or the intelligence in Jesse’s crude humor, but it’s there… somewhere… in the uncomfortable truth that doesn’t bother to hide behind rose-colored glasses.

If Justin Grimbol’s book doesn’t make you uncomfortable, you are reading it wrong. If you don’t want to feel uncomfortable, it’s not your kind of book. If you’ve never been a teenager, or a twenty-something, struggling with identity, purpose, self-image, or sex then you won’t get it. If you’ve never been irrevocably damaged by loss, first love, or co-dependency, you won’t understand.

This book is for anyone who has trudged through the filth of just-past-adolescence and not-quite-adulthood and come out the other side. Or maybe not. Whatever the case, it’s a book I strongly recommend to anyone who has ever experienced true, life-devouring loneliness.

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2016

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I'm not really sure how to describe Drinking Until Morning. All I can say is that I really enjoyed the s*** out of this book. Grimboli is the lead character. A chubby dude whose mother has passed away and whose father is a minister that he struggles to get along with. He spends most of his time pounding beers, eating frozen milkshakes and feeling sorry for himself.

Despite being really funny at times, Grimbol's writing has a shocking amount of honesty, self-effacing brutal honesty. These moments make this tiny novel worth every minute of reading.

I rarely laugh out loud when I'm reading, but Grimboli's character, along with the cast he hangs out with, are simply hysterical.

Fans of Bukowski's novels will appreciate this book. I am completely behind Justin Grimbol at this point. I'll be reading more of his work in the near future.

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Michael Friedrich

Drinking Until Morning is a truly great coming of age story that you'll want to do ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2014

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Drinking Until Morning is a truly great coming of age story that you'll want to do yourself the favor of reading. By turns hilarious and poignant, irreverent and deeply honest, this lovely repackaging of Justin Grimbol's first novel does the material justice.

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Werner

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2018

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Not bad. Goo goo ga ga I ate the pengoli like an upperstatesman eats wonky tonk salad. Thank you too.

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2014

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Dude lives with his emotionally crippled aunt, babysits a kid, gets cold-shouldered by his flighty high school sweetheart, gets fat, and hangs with his dummy friends who don't do crap but drink and raise hell at the local titty bar. This book is my kind of America, lost and losing, and Grimbol is America's writer.

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