The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and Europe, Shewing the Results ... Book

Well.. rant time, I guess.

First of all, I was going to finish this book. (because, after all, it is better to rant when you've read the whole thing... and I don't like not finishing a book) But it's missing 30 pages! O.o It jumps from 154 to 187 or something like that. And it's not like someone ripped them out, you would be able to notice that. They were never there. Did anyone else have this problem? 'cause it's weeeeiiiird. The editor/publisher/author/someone should have caught that... Majorly should have caught that. Oh well, it was going to get a one star rating anyway.

This book is just... ugh >.< It's crude. It's characters all fit the cliché, and don't ever go beyond that. The main character is a super genius who has no flaws, no fears, no problems. He's so borrrrrrrring. Oh, and he doesn't know who his parents are and is being sponsored by THE #1... Let me guess who his dad is?

Otto, as this main character is called, is kidnapped, which is apparently how people get recruited to this super secret villain school. There's hundreds of kids who get recruited this way, and the strongest emotion they have on the subject is a bit of apprehension?!?! No fear? *bangs head on table*

So this perfect Otto somehow gathers around himself a cliché group of friends and decides they need to get out... why, we are not told. I guess he doesn't really want to be on an island where he can not leave for 4 years... Besides, why would some super genius with evil tendencies want to learn how to be a super evil villain to rule the world anyway?

So, I could say that I stopped because of missing pages, or that I fell through a plot hole into a void, or because I died from boredom, or broke the book because I banged it into my head a few to many times in frustration... Whatever the reason, I really don't regret it.