{"id":836,"date":"2010-03-21T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/21\/book-report-i-am-a-genius-of-unspeakable-evil-and-i-want-to-be-your-class-president\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:33:00","slug":"book-report-i-am-a-genius-of-unspeakable-evil-and-i-want-to-be-your-class-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/21\/book-report-i-am-a-genius-of-unspeakable-evil-and-i-want-to-be-your-class-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/th_evilgenius-786160.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/th_evilgenius-785402.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Jon Stewart (the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Daily Show<\/span> host whose blurb appears on the cover&#8211;not the Green Lantern), I loved this book.  It&#8217;s got a very <a href=\"http:\/\/nodwick.humor.gamespy.com\/ps238\/comics\/index.php?date=2001-11-29\">PS238<\/a> feel, albeit on a smaller scale.  Author Josh Lieb does a nice job of balancing standard super-villain tropes and a genuinely touching personal story.<\/p>\n<p>Writer&#8217;s note:  this book is written in first-person, present tense, which some people dislike, but it works here.  Also, this novel extends the usual narrative conceit by having the protagonist address a non-specific audience.  The character would have no reason to say any of this to anyone in the world of the novel, but it&#8217;s used as an effective way to deliver the story to the reader, and allows the writer to &#8220;cheat&#8221; certain expository bits into the flow of the prose.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the book:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1595142401?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1595142401\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Jon Stewart (the Daily Show host whose blurb appears on the cover&#8211;not the Green Lantern), I loved this book. It&#8217;s got a very PS238 feel, albeit on a smaller scale. Author Josh Lieb does a nice job of balancing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}