If the story is by a woman, the main female character is astonishingly superior to everyone around her. Drink additional bottle if male protagonist ends up sleeping with her at some point.Ģ2. Drink remainder of your bottle if she is both. If the novel is by a man, the main female character is down to earth, or hot. Take a third drink if the book the character is reading/writing has nothing to do with the book in which its author is a character.Ģ1. Take an extra drink if there’s no way this character would be reading/writing that book. A character is reading/writing a book of greater literary merit than the book in which s/he is a character. Instead of a novel, it’s “creative nonfiction.”Ģ0. Take a tenth bonus drink if the protagonist has all of these characteristics, and is also kind of whiny.ġ9. Take a ninth bonus drink if the protagonist and author are male, white, straight, middle-aged, American, atheistic, liberal, and unfunny.

Take an extra drink for each characteristic listed in 10-17 if the author and protagonist are male, white, straight, middle-aged, American, atheistic, liberal, or unfunny. The protagonist has the same sense of humor as the author.ġ8. The protagonist has the same politics as the author.ġ7. The protagonist has the same religion as the author.ġ6. The protagonist is the same nationality as the author.ġ5. The protagonist is the same age as the author.ġ4. The protagonist has the same sexuality as the author.ġ3. The protagonist is the same race as the author.ġ2. The protagonist is the same gender as the author.ġ1. The characters make obviously good or obviously bad moral decisions.ġ0. The setting demands that characters make hard moral decisions.ĩ. Each chapter is told in a different person’s perspective, up to but not exceeding four individuals.Ĩ. The story is written in the first person.Ħ. For each novel, each participant takes one drink (or more, if stipulated) whenever one of the following conditions holds:ģ. Each participant, starting with the youngest, names a novel published after 1980.

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