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Title: Empire
Subtitle: How to Succeed with Nothing but Passion, Great Ideas and a Wealthy Family
Author: Brendan Jack
Narrator: Brendan Jack
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-27-17
Publisher: Author's Republic
Genres: Fiction, Humor
Publisher's Summary:
Dunlop Fantasia has a passion for marketing, excellent ideas, hovercrafts, and avoiding rehab. A dark, complicated family upbringing sets him on course for early divorce, a blunder with his father's mistress, making TV shows, the heartbreaking death of a manservant, pursuit of celebrity endorsements, and winning respect for his growing advertising empire. Follow his satirical exploration of wealth, self-help advice, business success, gritty optimism, and downgrading to business class flights.
In easily-digested nuggets of wisdom, Dunlop feels privileged to answer every question you'll ever ask about building your legacy and getting ahead in life.
Members Reviews:
Hilarious. Engaging. Smart. I loved it.
This is, as you can imagine, a hilarious tongue-in-cheek review from a spoilt rich kid's perspective of making it big in life. I filed it under "Business" on my Kindle because (and I was as surprised as you may be) there were honestly some great lessons in it that made me think. I know, crazy.
I've always enjoyed Brendan's humour, and it's followed through with a tornado in Empire. If Richard Branson, Bono, The Queen and Barack Obama all shared a god-child, Lucien Dunlop Fantasia would be him. Able to buy anything (and I mean anything) at a whim, or brunching with celebrities you've forgotten about (but are still super famous), mixed with a penchant for hover boards and scented reading pillows, he's done it. Lucien goes through life learning lessons from investing in ridiculous businesses to spending time in jail to drug-binges beyond compare, finally ending up in the great world of advertising, successfully selling denim fridge jackets, dildo alarm clocks and Ouma rusks. Okay I lied about the rusks, but I'm sure he had a hand in that too.
An absolutely hilarious and engaging book about the utmost extreme edge of where life could be, with a few great gems hidden inside. My favourite: "Water always picks the shortest route to flow downhill. Water may be lazy, but it's also powerful. Find this balance."
Highly recommended holiday read
Loved this. Sheesh, Brendan can write. I actually read certain passages thinking, man, i'm jealous - wish I could write like this.
One thing I do think is that, looking at the cover, a lot of people will think that this is an actual business book, and not a parody - this could work against him, however I hope it doesn't, it really is a long time since I've laughed out loud reading.
Funny!!
This is no intellectual masterpiece (not that anyone considering this book is looking for that), but for what it is, its a great and very entertaining parody.
This book is a lot of fun. It has a fine and sophisticated sense of humor. And yet it's timely!
First of all, you should know that this book is a fictional comedy. It's a satire of success memoirs and advertising - and not a real business book. As you will notice, the satire is very well done, the sarcasm is sharp and yet soft and fun, not bitter. This is a comedic memoir of the first order, with elements of self-help, marketing advice, parody and strange family history. A real gem that fearlessly goes to new comedic territory uncharted before in North America. It takes aim at a special kind of celebrity, one that is based on family wealth, and one that uses notoriety for both ego and profit.