How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide
| How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide |
| Author(s) |
Aaron Goldfarb |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
English |
| Genre(s) |
Fiction, satire |
| Publisher |
Chateau Publishing House |
| Publication date |
November 2010 |
| Pages |
372 pp |
| ISBN |
0982941102 |
| Followed by |
The Cheat Sheet |
How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide is a satirical novel by Aaron Goldfarb, published in 2010. It is billed as the world's first self-hurt guide, the polar opposite of a self-help guide.[1]
The controversial author of Happy Hour is for Amateurs, Philalawyer, blurbed that How to Fail was "Piss-yourself funny." [2] Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles podcast noted that How to Fail was "reminiscent of a classic that raised eyebrows sixty years ago: J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye." [3]
Chapters
How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide includes "footchapters" which, just like footnotes, comment on some point raised in an earlier chapter, however, in a much larger format.[4]
PART I: Hell's Kitchen
- Chapter Two: How to Fail to Not Get Mistaken For a Bum
- Footchapter Two: How to Go Insane and Garner Voices in Your Head
- Chapter Three: How to Fail to Make Your Parents Proud of You
- Footchapter Three: How to Fail to Write Commercial Material
- Chapter Four: How to Fail to Do Something Productive All Day
- Footchapter Four-A: How to Develop an Addiction
- Footchapter Four-B: How to Masturbate at Work
- Chapter Five: How To Fail to Live in a Healthy Environment
- Footchapter Five-A: How to Locate and Find Yourself Paying Rent to a Slumlord
- Footchapter Five-B: How to Have Fucked-Up Neighbors
- Chapter Six: How to Fail in Love
- Footchapter Six-A: How to Get Usurped By Your Girlfriend's Ex
- Footchapter Six-B: How to Have a Sordid Past
PART II: UWS
- Chapter Eight: How to Live on a Couch
- Footchapter Eight: How to Avoid Your Ex in a Small Town
- Chapter Nine: How to Fail to Extend Your Family Tree
- Footchapter Nine: How to Fail in Bed
- Chapter Ten: How to Get Laid on a Couch
- Footchapter Ten: How to Acquire the STD That's Right for You
- Chapter Eleven: How to Be Haunted by Demons
- Footchapter Eleven-A: How to Be Aimless and Uninspired
- Footchapter Eleven-B: How to Piss People Off, Alienate Yourself, and End Up Alone
- Chapter Twelve: How to Have a Negative Net and Self-Worth
- Footchapter Twelve: How to Business networking
- Chapter Thirteen: How to Fail to Be Normal
- Footchapter Thirteen-A: How to Be a Hypochondriac Without Health Care
- Footchapter Thirteen-B: How to Grow Apart From Your Friends
- Chapter Fourteen: How to Fail to Fail
- Epilogue: How to Write a Successful Book and Become Rich
Book tour
A noted craft beer enthusiast,[5] Goldfarb eschewed book stores and instead spent November and December 2010 signing How to Fail at bars across the East Coast. Author Magazine noted that over 1000 copies of How to Fail were sold during the month-long tour.[6][7]
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