Vladimir Putin: Life Coach

While reading this and leaving it lying around, so many friends took the title literally. Although probably not to everyone’s taste, it is highly amusing and clever in the way the author has (allegedly) taken the character traits of an (alleged) tyrant and turned them into a self-help manual.

You should buy it just for the cover photo. How they hilariously superimposed his face in such a ridiculous pose is brilliant.

I bought this around Christmas time around £5 delivered, and it was the hard back version so it was reasonable value for money. The contents I could only really describe as poop-time reading. Each page almost stands alone as an easily digestable unchallenging but entertaining snippet, often extrapolating a colourful story from a news snippet, and then adding a twist suggesting ways you could draw on it to 'be more vlad' in your own life. The type size is larger than I expected, so the actual volume of content feels a little stretched out, as the density per page is very low, with the entire left side of the double-page spreads generally being an illustration by Tom Sears in a style that reminds me of John Callahan. I bought this for myself, but I suspect it would make a better token gift for someone, even if they would only even flick through it, each page spread generally works as a stand-alone piece. Mildly entertaining execution of a very amusing concept. Can't complain!

Life changing read .. after reading and taking notes ... Ready to take over the world 👍

Bought this as a joke gift for my brother, he loved Putin and he loved this book. Great quality despite it being a joke book!

Fairly jovial book as poor humour to Explain some of the aspects of this mr putin

This man taught me all I know. I’m a megalomaniac dictatorial squillionaire despot too. And it’s to VPs book that I owe my success. He could be a life coach to you too.

Bought this as a secret Santa gift for a colleague, I found it amusing, he didn’t know it was me. I need a new job where my humour is appreciated x

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I have searched for it for a long time! amazing humor be more vlad ;))

My husband got a kick out of this. Can’t believe someone sat down and wrote this. Lol

Brilliantly funny but frightening too

J'ai trouvé la couverture géniale, et rien que pour ça, je ne regrette pas de l'avoir acheté. Poutine en mode "life coach" bien être: excellent ! Le contenu est très court, chaque règle ne dépasse pas une page, avec une illustration en face. Donc contenu assez léger, mais ce qui me dérange le plus, c'est qu'on sent que l'auteur a voulu "se payer" Poutine, c'est complétement à charge contre lui... Et je pense que ça aurait été mieux en étant plus neutre, moins partisan.