Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
How to Succeed in Evil
Written by Patrick E. McLean
Narrated by Patrick E. McLean
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
How to Succeed in Evil the first book since 'Good Omens' to make me laugh so hard that I lost my place and then prevented me from reading further by putting tears in my eyes. If you love superheroes and comics like I do, or hate them like my wife does, you'll find this book awesome." Audiobook Reviewer
Join Edwin Windsor as he uses nothing more than his intelligence to help supervillains be more profitable and sensible about the business side of Evil.
Along with his very proper English secretary, Agnes, and his hench-lawyer Topper, he struggles to make the world of super-powered people make sense. Which is very difficult because, while Edwin’s advice is excellent, all of his clients are too egomaniacal to listen.
Edwin struggles with a cast of characters including, Dr. Loeb, a trust fund child who desperately wants to be an Evil Genius, but has none of the talents. Dr. Loeb’s hideous mother, Iphagenia – whose evil scheme is to foment a second Southern Rebellion, beginning with Lower Alabama. And the Cromogoldon, a brute with forehead villainous low and quite possibly the strongest creature on the planet.
Inevitably, Edwin’s unique clientele lead him into conflict with the greatest superhero of them all, Excelsior. And so, the quiet, restrained intellectual is pitted against otherworldly heroic force. Will Edwin Windsor succeed in Evil?
LanguageEnglish
PublisherReinforcements, INC
Release dateSep 26, 2020
ISBN9781664909649
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Reviews for How to Succeed in Evil
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What our readers think
Readers find this title to be a great and wonderful book with excellent character development and a compelling story. The dialogue is natural and the narration is solid. However, there are some issues with editing, including repeated lines and a duplicated chapter. Some readers also find the use of pejorative terms to be unacceptable and consider it lazy writing. Overall, this book is clever and humorous, but may become boring for some readers. It is worth listening to and has the potential to become a hit movie.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Apr 18, 2024
Loved it. Fun, interesting, clever and convincing. I only wish the author would write a lot more books. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Apr 6, 2024
Story was good. Had some good characters, and dialogue didn't seem forced or just dumping exposition. Narration was solid. Characters were easy to tell apart. Only issue is the editing. Quite a fee repeated lines that got missed. And even an entire chapter is doubled. 62/63 I think. Low.effort reading so easy to pick up and put down when I have a spare fee minutes. Will read more - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Apr 6, 2024
Awesome audio book definitely worth listening :) 5 stars ?? - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Apr 6, 2024
A wonderfully complex central character, and some brilliant, picaresque scene building. Narration (by the author) is absolutely compelling and perfectly paced and characterised. Lots of fun, and unpredictable in all the right ways. It surely must become a hit movie one day. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Apr 6, 2024
I cannot praise the author highly enough. This is Clever stuff. Wry humour at it,s absolute best. Keep it up , Please. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Apr 6, 2024
It's great. Wonderful character development. Excellent story. I did not know this was #6 right up until the end, yet the story made perfect sense in and of itself. Looks like I will be listening to 1-5 now. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Apr 6, 2024
It didn´t start out bad but gets quite boring after a while . The audiobook / book tries to be witty, but ...hm...well....The reason I stopped in the middle of the book is the bad grammar. I don´t mind colloquial language at all, also the colloquial usage of grammar. But as I´m not a native and still studying English - it´s just not a good idea to listen to errors ALL the time . E.g. : "If we would pay you five times your rate, what would you say. " (conditionals are hard enough for a foreigner) That´s only one example out of many. And the character uttering that phrase it the educated clever guy - so it doesn´t even fit to the character.
No way to compare this to "Good Omens " (as that one is really funny and clever ) .NO WAY. Sometimes it´s a bit funny - so you listen to another chapter hoping for the best - often it´s just obscene ( = probably trying to be cool ) . If you have nothing else to do , and don´t mind the horrible grammar : well, the narrator is quite good. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5
Apr 6, 2024
The book uses some rather pejorative terms to describe people that are not acceptable. It would be one thing if it were an older book when people didn't care if they were insensitive aholes or not but dang this is just lazy writing.