Even those readers who do not like biographies will love this one. O'Brien tales of his often misguided exploits will leave you shaking your head that he actually managed to live through them. Laughing out loud is a requirement of this book, so read it in polite company...

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Had been looking forward to reading this book. Sadly it wasn’t for me. It just lacked a good plot to get you excited and wanting more. It was very slow paced and never picked up

That Time I is a collection of stories that seem too outrageous to be true but I guess they are. Some stories make you laugh out loud but others are just frightening - driving while drunk in more than one story. If the author wants to hurt himself that's fine but not ok when someone else could be hurt or killed. Skimmed over the stories but really did not want to finish.

Not really my type of book, but that’s probably more on me than the book itself! I know a couple of people who would enjoy it!

this book was really something.. sometimes funny, sometimes i feel related., but i like it.
a book that everyones need to read.

A good concept for a book, relating crazy adventures you had, but the narrator does not endear himself to the reader. He comes across as a pot-smoking 40 year old teenager. Almost all his stories involve either weed, alcohol, gambling, strippers or wild, lawless behavior. I understand this forms part of his hypomania, but the stories just sound too much like bragging. The wild money spending also doesn't impress me much.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for letting me read this book.

My goodness. I found myself both laughing out loud and horrified all in the same story. The stories take place around the world and follow no chronological order which adds an element of disorder and mania similar to what the author was experiencing. It is certainly a 'Wolf of Wallstreet" level of outrageous behavior, excessive cash, and questionable morals.

And I am convinced the author is Alan Schein. Shein owned a securities and mortgage firm in Vegas, sued by a client, moved to Florida, and is a well-known poker player.

What a collection of overblown, fictional, frat boy antics. This isn’t happening in most places in any decade unless it’s in a fantasy. Waste of time reading except for the laughs that someone tried pulling it off as non-fiction.

I have mixed feelings about this book. It delivered on what it promised, I supposed. The stories were outrageous and many were unbelievable. That much was true. I did laugh in some places. I’m generally a lover of essay collections, especially as they relate to other peoples’ lived experiences, but I never really connected with this one. It felt, to me at least, like frat boys in a game of one-upmanship. Perhaps I just wasn’t the target audience, though. It was, however, well written.

A big disappointment!

I was really looking forward to reading this, as the right up said it ‘will leave you laughing throughout’.

Sorry, but for me – far from laughter! I thought some of the actions in the stories were utterly irresponsible and I didn’t find them funny at all.

Not for me.

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC, for an unbiased honest review.

That time I... is a collection of David's stories and misadventures mostly in Las Vegas and around the world. The first one is ok, after the second you see a pattern and then it just becomes boring as everything is about drinking, money, drugs....
It's like a bragging memoir that's not really interesting.
I'm not sure who will find this book interesting. At least if you have time to kill it can entertain you.

I was excited to read this. I love essay collections filled with debauchery and antics. However after the first chapter/story I knew this wasn’t for me. The author tell a story about how he drove drunk going 144 mph, got pulled over, somehow passed a DUI check then drove off as soon as the tow truck dropped him home. Did I mention his license had expired 12 years ago? When the second story involved a wasted associate driving a taxi through Vegas I knew I was done. Nothing about driving drunk or speeding is funny

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
I have mixed feelings about this book and overall didn't get much from it. The stories are definitely outrageous, bordering on unbelievable. It does have some humorous antics that make for funny stories and it's a pretty fast read.

This follows the author and his wild antics around the world. Now you would figure from the description that there is going to be some outrageous stories and right from the start there are but this at least for a while feels like to teenagers trading stories trying to out do one another. I attempted to look up the author to at least verify this guy exist with the fact that these stories are so crazy and you cannot find anything. Now i know that individuals may like their privacy so maybe this author's name is a pseudonym. I know high rollers in casino's get treated different but I really have a hard time believing that the casinos allowed to happen whether it was in the 80's or today these events that took place with the fight with casino personal the touching of dealer cards or house chips. I figured this would be up there with the Wolf of Wall street or Tucker Max. While the draw of the book is outrageous stories there are at least some hard to believe.