The Villain's Guide to Better Living

by Neil Zawacki and Bill Brown (illustrator)

All those aspiring ne'er-do-wells who cackled all the way to the cash register with the best-selling How to Be a Villain are ready to embrace the finer points of the evil life with The Villain's Guide to Better Living . Within lie the answers to such trying questions as: Home dcor -- Gothic? Apocalyptic? Ikea? Friends -- Do I have any? Can I make them? Work -- Should I be a mad scientist or a corporate bastard? Written by the author of How to Be a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811856666
• ISBN13: 9780811856669
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Very Funny

I thought this book was super cute. I got a couple like it for my husband as a fun Christmas gift and he thought they were totally weird but very cool. I have fun reading them to my husband as well as my 5 year old boy. Great fun and would be a wonderful gift for someone with a good funny bone. :)

The Villan's Guide to Better Living

The Villan's Guide to Better Living is a book for all you up and coming evil-doers. This book shows you how to do things like protect your lair and how to motivate your minions. It also covers the finer things in life like dating and how to make evil friends. My favorite part in this book is when they went over how to protect and care for your evil abode. They went over the old-fashioned style moat and spiked fence. They also covered more in-depth approaches like casting a spell over your house to make it invisible. They also showed you easy ways to care for a lair like how to fix up a dungeons and take care of a carnivorous garden. I would definitly recommend this book to any up and coming villan. This book has helped me in my own evil doing and it will help in yours. When I read this book it made me realize how much better my life could be. It showed me that there is a whole other side to life. Any up and coming evil villan should read this book.

For the advanced evildoer

Many helpful tips to spruce up your lair and your (evil) life itself.

Laugh out loud funny

If you have ever thought about raising an army of the dead and have a good sense of humor, this book is for you. This is a lighthearted look at how to live better as a villain. Its not particularly realistic, but it isn't meant to be either. This book caters to those dark days that everyone has when you feel mean, everybody is pissed at you and nothing seems to go right. The thought is, if everyone thinks you're evil anyways, put your evil to good use and really become a better villain! I bought a copy for my boss, who prides herself on how she's perfected a maniacal laugh while rubbing her hands together greedily. She laughed her head off. We especially love the section in "Work" on how to make your un-conventional villian skill set fit normal resumés. For example, "Assassinated the King" can become "skilled at driving changes in leadership". Very funny stuff.

Extremely Funny.

This book was hilarious. I found it at a Barnes and Noble, it's basically a self-help guide for villains who've become depressed with their lives. It tells how to decorate your lair, make new friends and throw evil parties. Very funny stuff. The illustrations were also great, I just wish there could have been more material. The section on evil dating is probably my favorite.