Evans is an editor at Cracked.com, and how much you enjoy this book is closely related to how much you can tolerate their house style. The premise is pretty simple, pop science focusing on sex, drugs, and rock and roll, looking at how people in the past got high, and how you can do the same. The story moves from primates metabolizing alcohol to ancient brewing, temple prostitution, and then the medical uses of painkillers and MDMA. The book closes with an epic quest to find Slovenian Salamander Brandy, a semi-legendary drink containing toxic salamander secretions. Not a great book, but pretty fun.

*I listened to this as an audiobook, and the narrator did a great job despite some problems with Spanish words.