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    The Dark Lord's Handbook
    The Dark Lord's Handbook
    The Dark Lord's Handbook
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Dark Lord's Handbook

    Written by Paul Dale

    Narrated by Gildart Jackson

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    To become a Dark Lord is no easy thing. The simple ambition to hold dominion over the world and bend all to your will sounds straightforward, but it's not. There are armies to raise, fortresses to build, heroes to defeat, and battles to be fought.

    After many spectacular failures, Evil decided to lend more than inspiration to these would-be tyrants. He wrote an easy-to-follow Dark Lord's Handbook. And yet the next Dark Lord that came along screwed up like all the others.

    It had been hundreds of years, and the Handbook was lost in the annals of time, along with all that was mythic and exciting in the world. Then one day, a randy dragon had a chance encounter. Nine months later a Dark Lord was born. In time, the Handbook found its way to this new contender: Morden.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9781494575441

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    • 5/5
      Wasn't expecting much from this title I'd never heard of but the title intrigued me. Thankfully the book was a blast to listen to. The satire and dry humor that runs through the whole story is enough to make me give this at least four stars. But what really puts this to five stars is the fact that the characters are interesting and fun to listen about, and the narration by Gildart Jackson is impeccable. His voice really lends something to the whole story.

      Stand out character for me is the Chancellor. Thought at first he'd be just some rich weasel, but as it turns out he is a rather engaging character who makes very smart decisions.
    • 5/5
      Really great story.. When is the the rest of the series coming to Audiobook. Hurry up.. please
    • 4/5
      When I lived in London, I used the tube every day and pretty much every day, I would look at the bottle-shaped diagram on the wall of the train and reflect that Morden (which is at one end of the Northern Line) would be a great name for a baddy in a book. Sure enough it is.This book is great fun. There's a strain of subversive humour going on throughout which I really enjoyed but never at the expense of the characterisation. No typos that I noticed but some laugh out loud funny bits and a deftly handled sexual tension between our hero, or at least, our dark lord, Morden and the fundamentalist, mentalist, hero's potty-mouthed girlfriend. On the humour front, one particular chapter from the handbook about the dark lord rising and suddenly coming forth had me guffawing with Sid James like laughter. The book operates on more than one level though, with our own world situation intelligently parallelled.However, to me, and face it, this is all pretty subjective so take it with a pinch of salt - it does slightly rush to the end in the last chapters. The ending wasn't dissatisfying exactly but an awful lot happened rather suddenly in a short time and it didn't seem to connect as smoothly, or flow as seamlessly as what had gone before. And in the last pages, the sexual tension suddenly ceases to be an issue which sort of feels... odd. Undoubtedly, that has more to do with me than the quality of the writing, which was excellent throughout.So, I, for one, will be eagerly awaiting Paul Dale's next book and if you're looking for a funny, but thoughtful, read I thoroughly recommend this one.