As I read all of the hazing and torture that was used on the pledges I felt a sadness and pain from the tone the author used for the readers expense. Bows and toes was a hazing technique they used to punish a ‘pledge’ when he was doing something wrong, and was very painful. Throughout the stories I read of the hazing really got me at some points in the story as I felt sad, and scared for what will happen to the characters, "Since your pledge brother here is missing a chromosome, everyone take off your jackets and get on bows and toes NOW!" (Pg. The author used tone to show how the characters were feeling throughout the book, and through all of the events. The moral of the story is that the strong will stay and the weak will go. Living in the house brought a whole new meaning to being an Alpha, having fun and doing whatever they want for the last few years of college. Although, it was painful, stressful, and not fun what's so ever, they managed to get through it within twelve weeks. They went through many different obstacles of hazing and harsh treatment from other house members that had already been through it all. Townes, and his friends are going to college for the first time, and the first night they are kidnapped by some girls that took them to the alpha house where their lives changed. It focuses on teaching pledges how to be initiated in a fraternity, and how to live they life throughout their college lives. Bolen's Total Frat Move is a teaching book for those who want to join a fraternity. I wished for a more interesting ending there should have been more consequences for the main character- but this is another example of social elite getting away with anything if they wear a blazer. And this is also why I struggled with rating this book because I enjoyed reading through it (It was absolutely hilarious!), but in no way do I think that this behaviour is okay. Well I completely disagree: I think family name and money will do that along with a proper job which requires him to be sober most of the day. The ending message might have been that somehow his alcoholism, drug use, and debaucherous exploits from being in a frat during college made him into an upstanding successful citizen in the future. But to get back to the point, Bolen describes an anarchist, patriarchal society for the rich through the viewpoint of a man who has been initiated into one. It was even in the book, the women he was with in college didn't count for anything but experience not until he graduated would he get a wife, or a woman with real standards. Like the human beings with the unfortunate genes of two x's instead of a y chromosome were toys, their only redeeming qualities being if they ranked above a 7 on a hotness scale as a prime partner for the night. The mentality towards women was bordering on, no it WAS, utterly vulgar. At one point it got so graphic I felt a little sick. I think the author laid out the cold hard truth about what some fraternities do to their members in brutal detail. Bolen has done an excellent job of critiquing fraternities and the social elite way of life. I did not like him, and I do not like the way fraternities (if these stories are based on facts) can get away with anything. The book leaves no room for introspection the main character is simply having too much fun to notice, and even though this adds to the humour in the book, it makes for a very shallow character development. Bolen is a good story teller- he kept my attention through the book- probably due to the obscene events occurring at every page! Was this book funny? Oh yhea! Was it realistic? I think it was exaggerated by our narrator to make him seem more of a badass, so I doubt his honesty in everything. One of the most ridiculous books I have ever read it sounds like our main character spent his whole college career in a drunken stupor every other line he was drinking something, and it was never water. Before I start, I won this book in a giveaway on !
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