(Part 2) Best fiction satire books according to redditors
We found 1,042 Reddit comments discussing the best fiction satire books. We ranked the 193 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
33. On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
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I got my brother a "panini album" for christmas.
MOTD #45: "You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last."
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If you haven't read Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, I would highly recommend you read it... like right now. It's quite short, if you have an hour, read it or listen to it. Here are a bunch of links, you have no excuses:
Want to read more books on Stoicism? check out these lists: r/Stoicism’s the Stoic Reading List | Ryan Holliday’s Lists 1& 2| Goodreads
If you have a favorite part of Meditations or want to see any other stoic passage in future posts, please feel free to message me or comment anytime. Anyways, have a nice day/night where ever you happen to be… All the best, Chris.
The thing here that sticks out to me is that not once did you mention any specific thing that you enjoy doing or have a passion for.
Your goal was to make money and prove your dad wrong. That is not a sustainable way to direct your energy. I think it's very lucky that you were able to identify your problem as rooted in your dad and not money per se.
A lot of people pursue money as it's own means and own end and it ends up never being enough and it destroys them. You have to fail, sometimes spectacularly, to learn that kind of lesson and here you are, still young and in the prime place to learn from that mistake so don't feel bad.
I think you really need to sit back and try to figure out what really drives you. Why did you start an online company for example? There are a lot of ways to make money.
Why go that route specifically, and what did you sell? Were you drawn to that for some intrinsic reason other than you thought you'd make the most money that way or did you stumble on something that spoke to you and you were able to drive that to success because of passion? Generally, people aren't able to reach that level unless they're somehow interested in that field.
the short but powerful guide to finding your passion
coaching the artist within - this is geared towards artists but it starts out with trying to get you to find what you're passionate about and then lessons on mastering anxiety, mental blocks and fear of failure. It also sounds like you want to be self directed rather than on a career path which is similar to the 'artist life'.
Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates us
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Meditations
On the Shortness of Life
The Wisdom of Insecurity
The Art of Nonconformity:Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
Things Might go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Here are a few things to get you started. They don't have 'the answer' per se, but I think they'll go a long way in helping you reframe your idea of motivation, discipline, and how to deal with fear of failure. And get you started on the right path.
I will also add: do not be afraid to find a good therapist (preferably one trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) especially if you are still under 26 and are on your Mom's insurance.
I am not suggesting you have an illness from the DSM-V per se. However, I think any time you're unhappy and are struggling to reach goals, at a certain point that is a 'mental health issue' you need help with and a therapist is the ideal 'coach' to get you through it with tested and verified methods (and likely in a finite amount of meetings.)
2018/9/1 Wizard Lords: Orcs with guns: A LitRPG fantasy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FCT9P3C
2018/9/1 Kingslayer 2: Part I https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H1RQQ8V
2018/9/1 Coast on Fire: An Apocalyptic LitRPG https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GT69BBL
2018/9/4 Limitless https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G28J3JF
2018/9/4 Nightmare Keep https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GQ7LSQ3
2018/9/4 Hero Time: a LitRPG novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G9VPZQ5
2018/9/7 Accidental Dragoon: Book 3 in a LitRPG Swashbuckler Trilogy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GT74BV5
2018/9/8 The Song Mistress: A LitRPG Journey https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVTP6FP
2018/9/10 Traveler's Zone: A LitRPG YA Fantasy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GRGNZ8J
2018/9/15 Eburnean Passage: A LitRPG Mystery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVQ7MM4
2018/9/18 Southern Kingdom: Evolution Online II https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FZ7DPFT
2018/9/24 Game Changer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FQQGC83
2018/9/26 Freehaven Online: Lady Thunderlord, Into Hades: A LitRPG Adventure https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F37VFSJ
2018/9/28 Couch Potato Chaos: Gamebound https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FDTPN2R
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Yes! Every serial I write has a home page, and every home page has:
For my serials, the home pages are as follows:
Flameweaver Saga
Halfway to Home
From a quick browse-through of your comments I didn't see you crossing paths with any other serial authors - If you haven't read any of his stuff, I highly, highly recommend /u/Hydrael's work, over at /r/Hydrael_Writes! His Dragon's Scion and Small Worlds projects are exceptional! Small worlds is also published on Amazon!
I can help with that! Some quick recommendations that I personally love - these are loosely ranked in order of how I'd recommend them, but the fact that they're here at all means they've got my support :)
Fantasy novels:
The October Daye series:
Trickster's Choice/Trickster's Queen
Graceling
Scifi Novels:
Agent to the Stars and Old Man's War
The Ender Quartet
The Ship Series
Redshirts was fucking great. Have you read Willful Child? It's not the same premise, but the humor is pretty similar. (http://www.amazon.com/Willful-Child-Steven-Erikson-ebook/dp/B00ILY5BY2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426061259&sr=1-1&keywords=willful+child)
Well, there's /u/bethrevis' Across the Universe trilogy for starters. I didn't like the first book much, but loved the next two.
Cecil Castellucci's Tin Star is a standalone YA sci-fi with strong Titan A.E. vibes.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game also fits, though it's a smaller focus, I think.
More adult than YA, but I'm currently reading Steven Erikson's Willful Child and it fits the easy reading notes. It's kind of Star Trek helmed by meta-William Shatner/Zapp Brannigan/Zaphod Beeblebrox, as narrated by Kurt Vonnegut.
I believe These Broken Stars would also fit the YA space opera label, though I haven't read it.
Edit: And if you don't mind spinoffs, I forgot about Star Wars' Young Jedi Knights series. Loved those as a kid. Not sure how they stand up, but that was the series fitting the YA niche instead of adult or MG.
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Seth wants to be a king among gods. Loki wants freedom. Esmy wants pockets on women’s pants. When Esmy meets Loki, she gets much more than pockets.
Order at your bookstore or online:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Over-Gods-Dead-Body-Paranormal-ebook/dp/B07DB15B2F
Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/B07MMP26TL/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-139880&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_139880_rh_us
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/over-a-gods-dead-body-wrong-gods-book-1-unabridged/id1449910786
(Jarmo)[www.amazon.com/Jarmo-Adam-Spielman-ebook/dp/B0075JS1HI/] is my baby. And I'll have an illustrated novella up in the coming months thanks to this sub. Absolutely love this place.
And there's a space on my kindle reserved for your book, right between Chess Tactics and the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. I hope you sell a thousand of em.
Your goddamn blurb is pretty good btw.
eh, messed up the link but it works
Bitcoin has this. Does ethereum have some equivalent?
I'd suggest Kill Your Friends by John Niven. The main character is on the business side of the pop music industry and has some questionable ethics.
http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Stars-John-Scalzi/dp/0765357003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343878840&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+to+the+stars
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Being There by Jerzy Kosinski. The book was, imo, a snoozer, but the film was one of the most hilarious I've ever seen and gave Peter Sellers the role he was born to play.
Apathy and Other Small Victories is a great book about a crazy protagonist who wastes everyone's time and inadvertently solves a crime (if I remember correctly) while being self absorbed, lazy, and cynical. Also full of great one liners.
Edit: I also have to recommend Choke by Palahniuk, but I'm sure someone else has, too.
Probably 'The Roaches Have No King' by Daniel Evan Weiss.
Totally mental book that nobody seems to have heard of when I mention it.
"...tells the story of a humanized colony of cockroaches, who swear revenge against their hosts for renovating the kitchen and thus preventing easy access to food supplies."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roaches-Have-No-King-ebook/dp/B008W31F5Q/
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski.
Ha, me IRL...
This sub reminds me of the novel Being There, where a guy inherits a ton of money for no raisin and just hangs out.
Loved of mice and men. Check out
Being There
by Jerzy Kosiński
https://www.amazon.com/Being-There-Jerzy-Kosinski/dp/0802136346
>Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever.
Edit: might be too short.
Kill Your Friends: a Novel is a great read, total page turner, and also a very interesting look at the recording industry. a lot of the descriptions of the inner workings of said industry are quite on point, and the real life quotes at the beginning of each chapter really paint a picture.
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Filth by Irvine Welsh has a really great anti-hero who fits your description pretty well.
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Book club: it looks like no one caught the last post, we've selected two books for next time. The first was recommended by allsortsashenanigans and is Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, a short literary work from a Czech writer that encompasses themes of censorship, the encroachment of automation, the preservation of art and knowledge. This was so short that we thought throwing in another one wasn't too bad an idea.
Liloving offered up In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper as our second book. This is a collection of short stories inspired by Edward Hopper's paintings, and it has some "for real" writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King.
So READ 'EM!
От Василия Владимирского интересное:
> Брюс Стерлинг тряхнул стариной: альтернативка, 1919 год, футуристы-революционеры, анархисты-романтики, свобода на баррикадах, все дела. "Publishers Weekly" в восторге:
>> "Cyberpunk progenitor Sterling’s alternate history novella is bizarre, chock-full of famous people in improbable situations, and wildly entertaining, even when the worldbuilding seems to go a little off the rails."
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Utopia-Bruce-Sterling/dp/1616962364/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479414431&sr=1-1&keywords=9781616962364
This book: Kill Your Friends: A Novel
Excellent! lloydxmas, do you happen to have a copy of The F Word? Is a wonderful book. I must go see if gagglefuck is in it already.
I have Flowertown and Confessions of a D-List Super Villain that can be lent. Both were very good. I'm sure there are many others, but it is so hard to search for the lendable titles on Amazon!
EDIT: Adding more lendable SF titles - only adding books that I liked a lot.
The Forever War
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011
Bob Moore, No Hero - this is currently free in kindle store
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker
The God Engines
13 Bullets
Agent to the Stars
Old Man's War
"Too Loud A Solitude"
THis is the ultimate bitcoin novel: The King of Bitcoin
You can listen to the entire thing on soundcloud
That space may have killed ya too. Jarmo did it work?
Http:// and ditch the space. Science!
Big U
Fun read, and highly topical for you.
How about The Road to Mars by Eric Idle? That's Eric Idle of Monty Python fame.
Also, it's not very British, but John Scalzi's Agent To the Stars is a pretty fun SF read.
Neal Stephenson's The Big U also had giant radioactive rats...
You only read first edition hardcovers or what?
relevant title
it's also a fantastic read. i was busting out laughing on literally every page.
You should read "Too Loud A Solitude" by Bohumil Hrabal.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, I've decided to publish an "anti love story," under a pseudonym about a guy who loathes commercialized romance and goes crazy because of it.
Book details:
Ernest "Vulgar" Henningway [sic] is a college dropout who's sick of etiquette, decency, and shitty love stories. He may also be losing his mind...
Join Vulgar as he tries to survive a weeklong spree of abject behavior, crackpot philosophies, and torrid affairs. What made him this way? Why does he insist on shaving his head to look like a Neo-Nazi? And what does this mean for the White Protagonist in modern fiction? Probably nothing; maybe he just likes getting his ass kicked.
Read the book that no conventional publisher today would touch in their right minds. Why not put aside political correctness for a few chaotic turns of the page? Listen to his explanations of why men still have nipples, how romantic comedies prey on our weaknesses, how death defines love, and plenty of other nonsensical things. Cheer-or-jeer, Vulgar doesn't care; he's just trying to make sense of it all before it's too late.
On Kindle
Pricing:
$3.99
$0.00--with Kindle Unlimited!
*Free Campaign from February 5th-9th, 2018
Check it out if you've got the time, and please, give me your thoughts if you'd like!
Against my better judgement, I've decided to self publish this... anti-love story for Valentine's Day.
Synopsis: Ernest "Vulgar" Henningway [sic] is a college dropout who's sick of etiquette, decency, and shitty love stories. He may also be losing his mind...
Join Vulgar as he tries to survive a weeklong spree of abject behavior, crackpot philosophies, and torrid affairs. What made him this way? Why does he insist on shaving his head to look like a Neo-Nazi? And what does this mean for the White Protagonist in modern fiction? Probably nothing; maybe he just likes getting his ass kicked.
Read the book that no conventional publisher today would touch in their right minds. Why not put aside political correctness for a few chaotic turns of the page? Listen to his explanations of why men still have nipples, how romantic comedies prey on our weaknesses, how death defines love, and plenty of other nonsensical things. Cheer-or-jeer, Vulgar doesn't care; he's just trying to make sense of it all before it's too late.
Here's the link for anyone interested, if you've got kindle unlimited, take it for free!
Kraken by China Mieville - Museum curator gets sucked into an underworld of magic that he didn't know existed.
http://www.amazon.com/Kraken-China-Mieville/dp/0345497503
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi - a race of ugly, smelly aliens wants to contact humanity but they have a slight image problem. The solution? They hire an agent of course.
http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Stars-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B001ANYC96/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416629673&sr=1-1&keywords=agent+to+the+stars
Nothing you or I say will change his mind
Yes, there's a slim chance that his optimism will result in success
More likely, he will learn from painful experience
For a really cynical view of the business..read "Kill Your Friends" http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Your-Friends-John-Niven/dp/0061690619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415646140&sr=8-1&keywords=kill+your+friends
http://www.amazon.com/F-Word-Second-Jesse-Sheidlower/dp/0375706348/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1459212181&sr=8-5&keywords=the+f+word
Yo bro...it was free last weekend. This weekend it's Earth Seven - a Sci-fi Satire. Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0725XS6TQ
It will be a little while before The Robespierre Conspiracy goes free again.
I have to set up some stuff on my website first...then I will offer it free again. Gimme a few weeks.
https://www.amazon.com/Post-Apocalyptic-Nomadic-Warriors-Cover-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004YX7MLO
Funny, short, good parody of post apocolypse in general and mad max in particular I enjoyed it and plan to finish the series
My new LitRPG book is coming out on Friday, September 28th. Can you please add it to the list?
Title: Couch Potato Chaos: Book 1 - Gamebound
Author: Erik A Rounds
https://www.amazon.com/Couch-Potato-Chaos-Erik-Rounds-ebook/dp/B07FDTPN2R/
Thanks!
There's literally a book. Highly fucking recommend.
Pirate Utopia is the one of the very best dieselpunk books; original without any film noir cliches. https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Utopia-Bruce-Sterling/dp/1616962364
Have you read Neal Stephenson's The Big U ? The main character builds a railgun in it; you might like it.
Go out and find a copy of this book and you'll never hate roaches again.
In fact, you'll start laughing every time you see one and people will think you're kind of fucking weird, but cockroaches won't bother you anymore.
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