(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best fiction satire books

My first novel. I hope people enjoy reading it and get a good laugh but also learn something about dating, society and themselves.

Swipe Right For Love by S.A. Ozbourne

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1795609486/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_HaOzCbGRWQHZY

Kindle ebook 3.99 Paperback 12.99

Description:

Will, a 39-year-old recluse is a mamma's boy who has shut himself in his room with nothing but movies, music, and the Internet to keep him company. He "works" from home doing menial online tasks like taking online surveys to make enough money to feed his entertainment habit.Selena is a smart, organized and professional data analyst who lost her mother to cancer when she was a teenager. She has raised herself and her father and prides her self on her intelligence, efficiency and logic skills.But when Selena decides to fulfill her mother's dying wish by trying to find the perfect mate, she realizes it's slim pickings out in the dating world. She decides she may have better luck online.She swipes right on the popular dating app her friend recommended and matches with Will who seems like a smart, good looking and professional man. Little does she know that Will has ulterior motives for swiping on dating profiles. Can Will ensure his continued safe and relaxing home life after his mother is gone by finding a willing and financially supportive partner? Does Selena have the ability to lower her standards and accept a man into her life who may not be perfect? Will their encounter lead to a successful pairing or will they wish they swiped left?The hilarious first novel by popular social media and online creator S.A. Ozbourne brings love and romance into the technological reality of dating apps. A funny, cute and sometimes heart-wrenching look at life in the era of smartphones.

My fellow redditors,

If you purchase my novella "The Office King" and are not satisfied, I will refund your money, no questions asked. Writing it has been an all-consuming passion and labor of love. I’ve spent the last five years trying to make it something of quality. It is a satire replete with the absurdities of office life and international intrigue.

The Office King is available on Amazon. If you are a Kindle unlimited subscriber, it is available as a free download, otherwise it is $1.99 for the Kindle Book and $5.99 for the Paperback. Any reviews are wholeheartedly appreciated.

Note: you must provide proof of purchase in order to get a refund. Refund only applies to Kindle Book. You can private message me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076PNNRVN

Below is the first Chapter:

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.

– Albert Camus

Chapter 1

A King is Born

Kenneth King sat in an ergonomic leather-bound swivel chair behind an oak desk garnished with neat knickknacks placed in a semi disorganized manner so that no one should accuse him of being too anal. King's brown crop was meticulously maintained. His penetrating aquamarine eyes oozed zeal. He stood six two flat, six four on tiptoes. And on tiptoes he often found himself, performing calf raises in order to strengthen the weaker of his legs that had suffered an achilles tendon injury in preparation for a triathlon – a triathlon which with his bad leg he finished second. King was blessed with a member that his wife adored, and that spawned their four lovely children, twin boys and twin girls two years apart. A Yalie, like his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather before him, his membership to Skull and Bones was all but guaranteed. King wore his lineage like a skunk wears its scent, matter-of-factly. He was the embodiment of the ascent of man, formed in the upper crust in a symbiosis of merit, mediocrity, and nepotism. For a man with such advantage he remained grounded, attributing much of the good in him to his mother, who often reminded him of his luck in life during his formative years. “Kenny, you won the cosmic lottery and don’t you ever forget it,” she would say. Mother was of peasant stock. A beautiful daughter of a blacksmith and homemaker, who made quite the impression on father at a cotillion she was coerced to attend with her best friend. A year later, despite the initial queasiness his blue blood parents felt, they welcomed her into the fold and the couple was married. Her exquisite beauty was an antidote for her lineage: “Someone that pretty deserves to be rich,” an uncle observed at a family function. The parents agreed and repeated the phrase to one another to help cement their support. At forty-two, Kenneth King was a retired commercial pilot and a newly minted lawyer. The tyranny of success was instilled in Kenneth at a young age. It propelled him to achieve despite his wealth. When he was five years old his father sat him down and told him a story that his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather had passed down to him. “My dear boy, would you like to hear a story?” “Yes papa.” “One day a frog fell into a jar of milk. The frog was small and the jar was big. The frog tried to jump out but was unable to. The milk was deep and the frog’s feet could not reach the bottom to push off and jump out. The frog began to swim. And he swam and he swam and he swam some more. The frog was tired but kept going; slowly the milk began to thicken all around him. He kept pushing and fighting and swimming until he felt the milk thicken so much so that the milk turned to butter. At that point the frog stopped swimming; he could stand on top of the butter and hopped right out.” This story was repeated many times in King’s life and left a lasting impression. No doubt the intended effect his father desired, for he knew his son’s lot in life was to a large extent dependent on combating complacency and privilege. The burden of privilege, an insurmountable beast, needed taming. This was something the ninety nine percent knew nothing about. Instilling in his boy a strong work ethic was one of his greatest achievements. He wanted his son to derive happiness from a life of purpose. He’d seen many contemporaries drowning in excess, sleepwalking through life, miserably depressed, choking on mouthfuls of caviar and champagne, amounting to nothing but the interest in an endless string of zeros appended to the millions in their trust funds.

Thank you for taking the time to read. I would love some feedback.

Sincerely,
-Haim

books. everybody should read. i loved all the novels from Walter Moers, he is a german author, but i think his books got translated in english. a famous quote from his books in german "lesen ist denken mit einem andern kopf" "reading is thinking with a different mind" i would translate it, and i always had a good time reading books, because u can do it alone, and you can escape reality in a good way, u learn new words and read awesome storys. i can only recommend it :)

http://www.amazon.de/13-5-Lives-Captain-Bluebear-Zamonia/dp/0099285320/ref=pd_bxgy_eb_img_y this one i would recommend first, it is so awesome <3
it is for kids and oldies, i read it when i was a teenager, and i loved it, i reread it alot xD

hope it helps, happy holidays


edit: it has a lot of pictures in it (all drawn by walter fuckin moers himself!!!)

Alright, here goes nothing! Kinda Long list, sorry for wall of text!

YouTube

• Learn Italian with Lucrezia
  
  
• Tia Taylor (More culture than anything; but American Girl who lives (or lived) in Italy for awhile. While I feel like she tries to make videos JUST for views, some of her earlier ones are very informational!
  
  
• Debby Arts: I really enjoy drawing, and I came across her one day. Her main youtube channel is in English, but she does have an Italian version.
  
  
• FavijTV is a decent gamer youtuber. I don't watch him that often, but decent none-the-less.
  
  Twitch.tv
  
  
• Rengoland (my personal favorite, super chill dude, also fluent in English but streams in Italian for his viewers)
  
  
• Paoloidolo
  
  Sites
  
  
• I believe Uni. of Vermont Italian
  
  
• Italian Grammar Exercises!
  
  
• Reading of Italian Passages This site has everything though.
  
  Here are all of my books that I bought, I can't find some of the old ones that were given to me though!
  
  
• Practice Makes Perfect: Italian
  
  
• English Grammar for Students of Italian
  
  
• 501 Italian Verbs
  
  
• I love this buy, I dislike Anki Vocabulary Cards
  
  
• Same thing as above, but grammar
  
  
• Regret this buy, but I own it: Living Language
  
  
• This is a picture vocab book. A SIMILAR ITEM (i.e. not this one specifically) was given to me when I first was learning Italian. Picture Voacb Book
  
  
• Grammar cheat sheet
  
  
• And I have some school books from uni classes I took.
  
  Italian movies I recommend
  
  
• Benvenuti al Sud
  
  
• Benvenuti al Nord
  
  
• La Vita è Bella
  
  
• Un americano a Roma
  
  
• La grande Guerra
  
  
• Il Postino
  
  Others
  
  Other resources include the free ones that are giving in the language resources! I also go over to /r/Italy and /r/Italianlearning and read topics and help others with Italian!

I love books I love books I love books.

My all time favorite book is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. I first read it in high school for my AP Lit class and I've probably read it a dozen more times since then. My copy is worn and dog eared and full of little notes in the margins and underlined phrases. It's gorgeous writing and the protagonist makes my chest ache and the story-telling is magical. It is the best book I've ever read and the best book I will ever read.

Another one of Barbara Kingsolver's books is also my favorite. It's her first one--called The Bean Trees.

A recent author I've found that I'm completely infatuated with is Alice Hoffman. My favorites of hers are The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Faithful, The Marriage of Opposites, and The Story Sisters. Her story telling is luminous, exquisite. She has a profound grasp on both understanding words and understanding people, and the two gifts together make magic.

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped In An Ikea Wardrobe is probably the smartest, funniest, charming, insightful, and heartwarming/terribly saddening novel I've ever, ever read. It's spectacular.

I'm also a huge fan of Liane Moriarty's work. Her books are so real and they're so funny, so beautiful, so good.

Also the Harry Potter series. At the beginning of the summer, right after I graduated college, I seriously sat down and reread all seven books in a week. It was great. I did nothing but read all day for seven days and it was perfect.

edit: forgot Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel! This book combines my favorite literary genre, magical realism, with apocalyptic fiction and OH MY GOD it's fantastic.

I've made all of my books free, because I have a problem...
Every time I meet someone who has read one of my novels, they tell me they enjoyed it, despite the errors. This sends me into a panic, and I devote the rest of my weekend to reading a book I wrote. Along the way, I can never find the errors.
I'll reach out and ask the reader if they can send me some of the mistakes they encountered while they were reading, and if they respond, it's always something along the lines of, "There are words missing from sentences and typos!" This sends me back to the book, to re-read again, and my brain fills in the words because the story is so completely my voice that I know what the next word will be before I read it.
So, dear redditor, I've come to you, with my hat in my hand, and I beg of you, PLEASE tell me how I've fucked up. Don't sugar coat it. Send to me, "The sentence that starts chapter 4 makes no fucking sense at all, and here's why." Doing this is a massive help to me.
"Dude, just pay an editor," you might want to tell me. In that case, I graciously accept your downvote and you can accept my free novels as an apology for wasting your time.
I'm confident that one or two or ten people out there might want to read one of these books, and as they do, they will certainly encounter errors, and it's my deep hope that they will contact me to alert me to the errors they notice.

Lovetrust- a campus novel- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01666S6FW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Beach House Burning- a beach novel- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GV269WZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1

Leeds House- a horror comedy-
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PNUZRPK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2

Famous For Nothing- a celebrity satire-
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQC4H3K/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

Empire Waste- a contemporary noir-
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K5WI1JK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i4

I can be e-mailed at: tjamesreagan@yahoo.com
/or I will follow you back on Twitter @t_jamesreagan and you can DM me the edits.
/or you can PM me on Reddit!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Hi! My friend and I have written our very first novel, 'Clownbound: Take Me to the Circuits'. We just put it up for pre-order today and are very very excited for its release! We've had a few early reviews and are surprised by the positive responses, so don't be afraid to knock us down a peg or two...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clownbound-Circuits-being-clown-everyone-ebook/dp/B07JMW1H5J/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540384928&sr=8-1&keywords=clownbound

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Tagline:'If being a clown was easy, everyone would do it'

Blurb: What name springs to mind when you hear the words: hero, athlete, and clown? That's right, Timmy Tim Tim Thompson from Yugoslavia. Born into a drastically poor and abusive family, Timmy had no choice but to fend for himself. Through a series of not so fortunate events (copyright), he found his way into Clownhood.The circus is at war one again and it is up to Timmy to help the Clowns defeat the Magicians. On his journey he meets new friends, foes and the love of his life. The question is: will this clown be able to juggle his ego, his purpose and his desire to win gold at the 1997 Circus Olympics?

Price: £2.99

We'd love it if you followed our Instagram as we will be very active on it over the next month! We are very open to any thoughts/advice any of you have on debut novels!

https://www.amazon.com/Meat-Ladder-Mars-Eugenio-Negro-ebook/dp/B01DZ0OCUU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482774726&sr=8-1&keywords=meat+ladder+to+mars
Published this book in May 2016 to make fun of the private space industry and the idea that we can solve Earth's problems by leaving it. About a month later Space X publicized their plans to go to Mars. Need a great holiday gift for your political friend? Read Meat Ladder to Mars and discuss: in a world of constant innovation, what are old things like the earth and family worth? Is space exploitation the dream of ALL mankind??
Here's a youtube video of me reading part of a chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot2VfUAb9SM
Finally, if anyone on here wants to post an honest review please do write negrocomics@gmail.com and I can zap you a PDF.

This super exciting ebook is only a dollar! :D

You're super friendly and lovely for having a multi-winner contest :)

I did a whole class, pretty much, on Calvino in college and damn is his stuff dense or overly hard to follow at times, but at the same time pretty damn good. If anyone is interested in him one of his most accessible, yet still challenging, books is The Non-Existent Knight. It seemed to be the favorite in my class by far and everyone else I know who has read an array of his books also seems to love it.

Bang! if you enjoy board games

Thud! if you enjoy excellently written stories with a great plot and fair bit of humor thrown in

Hi All, just popping by to let you know that my grindhouse action-horror novella "DETROIT 2020" is free this week on Kindle. It's a book for people who love 80's action movies in the vein of Robocop, They Live, and Sharknado.

Thanks!

• DETROIT 2020
  
• Grindhouse / Action / Horror
  
• 14,000 words (roughly 61 pages on Kindle)
  
• If you read and enjoy it feedback here or a review would be fantastic.
  
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If anyone's interested in understanding more about why teachers feel this way, my husband (a Physics teacher in a comprehensive Upper school) has written a novel which satirizes our current education system called The Ascent of Dave. Might be biased but I think it's hilarious.

Mods, hope it's ok to plug something related to OPs post, if not, sorry and feel free to delete!

The book club post was kinda buried, but we've selected two books. 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. darr76 and danger both seem to like the short story collections.

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.

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it's also a fantastic read. i was busting out laughing on literally every page.

Many of J.G. Ballards novels (particularly THE UNLIMITED DREAM CO. and HIGH-RISE)

Will Self's COCK & BULL

Richard Powers' GENEROSITY



Charlotte Roche's WETLANDS

Ted Mooney's EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS--the novel that debuted the increasingly important term "information sickness"

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

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

This book is a great read for anyone who thinks psychics are daft!

If you're ... erm ... into that sort of thing, you might enjoy Will Self's Cock and Bull. Takes the idea to some very absurd lengths.

There's literally a book. Highly fucking recommend.

Fanks :) It's taken from the title of a favourite book of mine.

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.

Thud!

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

Source!

You should read "Too Loud A Solitude" by Bohumil Hrabal.

"Too Loud A Solitude"

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