I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb ~ Started: 26.11.09 ~ Finished: 27.11.09
Synopsis ~
Family Guy meets Election in this hilarious young adult debut!
Twelve-year-old Oliver Watson's got the IQ of a grilled cheese sandwich. Or so everyone in Omaha thinks. In reality, Oliver's a mad evil genius on his way to world domination, and he's used his great brain to make himself the third-richest person on earth! Then Oliver's father - and archnemesis - makes a crack about the upcoming middle school election, and Oliver takes it as a personal challenge. He'll run, and he'll win! Turns out, though, that overthrowing foreign dictators is actually way easier than getting kids to like you. . . Can this evil genius win the class presidency and keep his true identity a secret, all in time to impress his dad?
I read about ‘I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil...’ on Shelfari and as much as I enjoy reading YA literature, this book was not the usual type of read (adult or YA) for me but I read it with an open mind and was pleasantly surprised.
This book is just a fun read, you take an character like Oliver, an average teenage, a individual and not the person that everyone thinks he is, in fact he is the third richest person the country and last summer he constructed a fully functional command centre (with minions) beneath his house.
As much as Oliver tries to deny it, everything he does is to seek the approval of his Father, a man indifferent to everyone, he wants to fix the world and that does not include his wife and son. Oliver view of world is slightly worrying but he knows what he is doing.
There is so many laugh out loud moments in this book, I find it difficult to pick one because they were all equally funny.
A fun read.