emelee Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Do you have any favorites in the satire genre? I would say that I like Candide the most. But also Animal farm & Don Quixote. Classic satire. Here are a few links that list satire novels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Satirical_novels http://io9.com/5867637/10-satirical-novels-that-could-teach-you-to-survive-the-future http://www.ranker.com/list/satire-books-novels-and-stories/reference http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jan/28/top10s.satires http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/satire http://www.paperbackswap.com/Political-Satire/tag/25841/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I liked Gulliver's Travels, and pretty much everything I've read by Dickens and Terry Pratchett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 My favorite satire is humorous. So PG Wodehouse's novels, EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia, Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm are ones that I immediately think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calexa Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen was a master of social satire, and nowhere does she display this better than in Pride and Prejudice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witchy Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I agree with the above post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I love The Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy as a comedy satire, and Animal farm as a serious satire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I love The Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy as a comedy satire, and Animal farm as a serious satire. I'm not entirely sure of the definition of satire personally (so I'm not sure which satire novels I've read), but I'd have to agree with this post. I loved both of these ^. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I'm really bad at satire. If I don't know a book is satire, it might just go over my head and I might not understand it at all. And then when I learn it's satire, I think dohhhh! From the wiki list provided by emelee, I would say Candide is my favorite (not that I've read many). It was wack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 For me it has got to be The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Jonas Jonasson will I am sure in years to come do down as one of the greatest comic authors of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Great thread idea. Thanks for providing those links. From going through them, here are some of the ones I've read and loved the most: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (without a doubt my favourite satire) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Animal Farm by George Orwell A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumo Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 For me it has got to be The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Jonas Jonasson will I am sure in years to come do down as one of the greatest comic authors of all time. I really liked the 100 year old man. Another one I would add to this list, and one of my all time favourite books, is: Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Another one I would add to this list, and one of my all time favourite books, is: Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene Loved this book too Duncan. I see there was a movie made with Maggie Smith as Aunt Augusta. She would suit the part so well I've always meant to read more books by him ....have you read any of his other works, and if so, are there any you particularly recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumo Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Loved this book too Duncan. I see there was a movie made with Maggie Smith as Aunt Augusta. She would suit the part so well I've always meant to read more books by him ....have you read any of his other works, and if so, are there any you particularly recommend? I read The Human Factor and wasn't particularly impressed with it, it was fine, just not outstanding. That is the only other one of his I have read. However, this has prompted me to read more of his work, so I have dug out a copy of The End of the Affair. I will let you know how it goes. I have not seen the movie with Maggie Smith - I will look out for it :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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