How to Grow Up and Rule the World is a fun, fast read with inviting illustrations and a narrator who is so haughty and insulting that he had me laughing on every page. The book's dedication sets the tone: "Dedication: To me, without whom not a single one of my glorious accomplishments would have been possible." The book's opening passage is equally arrogant: "Greetings, inferior one. I am Vordak the Incomprehensible. Who you are doesn't matter." Vordak insults the reader throughout the book while offering extremely helpful advice about becoming the world's most evil and successful supervillain (after Vordak, of course). Although I doubt that I have the chops to follow his advice -- in fact, according to my embarrassingly low score on the book's Evil Aptitude Exam, I will probably never rule the world, and even if I did, I would "waste all of [my] power on things like promoting world peace and improving the environment and . . . snuggling" -- I thoroughly enjoyed Vordak's twisted sense of humor and his impressive vocabulary. Highly recommended!
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