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I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President |  | Author: Josh Lieb
Publisher: Razorbill
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 33883
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1595142401
EAN: 9781595142405
ASIN: 1595142401
Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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Family Guy meets Election in this hilarious young adult debut! Twelve-year-old Oliver Watsons got the IQ of a grilled cheese sandwich. Or so everyone in Omaha thinks. In reality, Olivers a mad evil genius on his way to world domination, and hes used his great brain to make himself the third-richest person on earth! Then Olivers fatherand archnemesismakes a crack about the upcoming middle school election, and Oliver takes it as a personal challenge. Hell run, and hell 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?
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 A fine drama March 21, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Josh Lieb's I AM A GENIUS OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL AND I WANT TO BE YOUR CLASS PRESIDENT tells of average kid Oliver, who lives in Nebraska and who is a mad evil genius in secret. Nobody can stop him - not even the class bully or his teachers - until he runs for president and discovers the voting process to be a challenge. A fine drama emerges.
Hilarious & Incredibly Sassy! March 14, 2010
Lori Willis (Arizona)
Loved this book! And I love the cover and title of this book - it's what obviously caught my eye in the first place and fortunately the story was just as perfect on the inside. I especially liked all the footnotes. I kept finding myself having to read passages out loud to people around me, because they were so funny and had to be shared! I couldn't just keep giggling to myself! ;-)
A Funny Read! January 17, 2010
Lauren's Crammed Bookshelf (PA, USA)
To be honest I was a bit weary about giving this novel a chance. But, after reading that the author had been an award winning executive producer on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and had written for such shows as The Simpsons, I began to get excited and hoped that this would be as funny as I thought it may be.
Luckily I'm a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President is a fantastically hilarious debut novel that will leave you in laughing fits.
Josh Lieb has a talent to write a seamless plot that is filled with fast paced writing and greatness. I really liked the characters he created within this novel even though they seemed to be a bit one dimensional at times. One of my favorite was Oliver, the secret genesis main character who is the third richest man in the world. While it was easy to like Oliver and laugh at his jokes, I felt that even with his smarts he tended to be a bit immature in the way he dealt with his peers and parents. Since, for most of the novel he tends to treat most people that could have the potential to care for him or already do like dirt because of his pretend act of "stupidity." Though, with saying that, I could kind of understand why he would want to be this way given how his father acted like in front of him.
Overall, I'm a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President was one great novel that is packed with high potential to make Josh Lieb a well know name.
Unspeakably awesome! January 11, 2010
Holly K. Lee (Chicago, IL)
I can honestly say that I have never read anything quite like I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president.
Dr. Evil meets Jimmy Neutron might be a good way to describe Oliver Watson, the genius of unspeakable evil that wants to be class president at Gale Sayers Middle School.
Oliver Watson flies totally under the radar, until one of his classmates nominates him for class president. He strikes down the idea at first, but then changes his mind and decides to run just to put a thorn in his "daddy's" side.
Daddy thinks he is a great man destined to do great things. Oliver knows that he is a genius (of unspeakable evil) and that his father must be brought down to the reality of his mere mortal status on earth. Because his daddy won class president in his middle school, Oliver sees it as a perfect way to level the playing field without revealing the fact that he rules the free world.
Unspeakable evil genius aside, Oliver is quite normal. Despite denying it, he seeks his fathers approval and praise. Each time he is shot down that only propels him further into his diabolical plan.
A cast of characters that could be found at any middle school in the country make this book relatable. At its core a book about the underdog having his day, and proving everybody wrong, this is an excellent book that will entertain readers through the very last page.
Very well written, this book is smartly hilarious. Easily appreciated by adults and young adults alike. I plan to give this to my 14 year old brother to read now that I am done with it.
Dexter + Stewie = Oliver January 10, 2010
Paul A. Crutcher
*I'm a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President* is fun. Even if sometimes odd or tedious, it kept me reading and finished in a more compelling manner than has any book I've read in recent memory. That close brings the son-father dynamic to the perfect forefront. It surely has a lot to do with me-as-reader, a son always looking for a father's approval; but I think this book must also resonate with others for its more general character, style, and message. After all, it's easily comparable to Dexter's Lab, and the protagonist (Oliver) is immediately linked to Dexter and his more schizophrenic and evil counterpart, Stewie (from Family Guy). It's a romp, in part at least, because little boys and their shaping of the world, especially the fantasy-reality interplay, well, they're fun to listen to.
If you want something comparable, but with even more wit and with a wondrous girl protagonist, try *Ida B.*
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