What Did I Do Last Night or No More Bull

What Did I Do Last Night?: A Drunkard's Tale

Author: Tom Sykes

"Sykes's amusing and depressing ancedotes about his 'research,' deepened by the occasional bout of introspection, make this addition to the recovery memoir genre distinctive."

--People

     The former New York Post nightlife reporter for "Page Six" serves up his own dark secrets in this funny, biting, candid memoir of his long relationship with booze and his first intrepid steps toward recovery.
     Tom Sykes always liked to drink. When he was a teenager he drank to escape the boredom of his uptight British boarding school, Eton, and his rapidly disintegrating family. Sykes also chronicles his experiences in the workforce as a substance-abusing young editor at GQ magazine in London, and describes what it was like, after the Post beckoned him to New York, for a reporter with a fondness for the bottle to cover the glamorous social scene in a city that never sleeps. As the excesses of the party scene that he documents threaten to become his downfall, he faces the ultimate question: Can he summon the strength to pick himself off the barroom floor and save his own life?

"Fast, funny and at times stupefyingly honest"

--British GQ

"A compulsive, salutary and entertaining story of social intoxication"
--British Glamour

"Unputdownable--as sad as it is funny. I admit to being Tom's sister, but it's still a brilliantly written book."

--Plum Sykes, author of The Debutante Divorcee and Bergdorf Blondes

"Take one bright lad, mix with two parts drink and tabloid journalism and you get a memoir that reads like a three-day bender, full of high-spiritedhumor and low-point misadventure. I enjoyed every page."

--Rick Marin, author of Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor

"A thrilling ride through the drug-and alcohol-soaked nightlife of London and New York. Tom Sykes's writing is funny, smart, and a dead-on account of addiction. What's more, unlike most confessional memoirs, it's all true."

--Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Publishers Weekly

English journalist Sykes shares a raw, dizzying testimony of his steep, precipitous dive into alcoholism over the course of his young adulthood. With the wounding desertion of his father from their family of six children when Sykes was 14, the boy soon found comfort with his drinking buddies at boarding school in Eton, where they could drink copiously at age 16. Young Tom became a heavy pot smoker and user of Ecstasy and cocaine, eventually fumbling his way into journalism at the Evening Standard, where he fit in winningly among older journalists and prodigious drinkers. His drunken stunts soon grew old at the Standard and at his next gig, GQ, and Sykes gravitated toward New York, where his more enterprising sisters, twins Plum and Lucy, and Alice, enjoyed high-end magazine jobs. Writing features at the New York Post, which segued into a regular bar column, the lucky golden boy landed a lifestyle of the most obsequious entitlement, wooed by every establishment in town with checks waived and outrageous behavior overlooked for a mere mention on Page Six. Throughout, Sykes's voice is candid and the details gritty. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet

Author: Howard F Lyman

In 1996, when Howard Lyman warned America on The Oprah Winfrey Show that Mad Cow Disease was coming to America, offended cattlemen sued him and Oprah both. Not only were Lyman and Oprah vindicated in court, but events have proved many of Lyman's predictions absolutely right. Mad Cow Disease has come to America, and Lyman argues persuasively in No More Bull! that the problem will only grow more deadly until our government deals with it seriously.

In Mad Cowboy, Lyman, a fourth-generation Montana rancher turned vegetarian then vegan, told the story of his personal transformation after a spinal tumor, which he believes was caused by agricultural chemicals, nearly left him paralyzed. In No More Bull!, Lyman uses his humor, compassion, firsthand experience in agriculture, and command of the facts of health to argue that we might all profit by transforming our diets. He makes a powerful case that Alzheimer's is yet another disease linked to eating meat. And he explains that the steak at the heart of your dinner plate not only may destroy your own heart but actually offers no more nutritional value than a doughnut! If you've been confused by the competing claims of the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, and other fad diets, No More Bull! is the book that will set you straight. Its pure, unvarnished truth is told with down-home common sense.

Lyman's got a message for meat eaters, vegetarians, and vegans -- and the message of No More Bull! is that we can all do better for ourselves and the planet.