Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143112120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's relative I read another review where the person had trouble choosing between three and four stars, and I can relate. But then, I received an eBook credit and therefore didn't pay for the book. And, compared to several novels I've purchased based on reviews, this book is a It's relative Alicia I read another review where the person had trouble choosing between three and four stars, and I can relate. But then, I received an eBook credit and therefore didn't pay for the book. And, compared to several novels I've purchased based on reviews, this book is a 4-star.I read Marisha Pessl's other novel, Night Film, and really liked it. Unlike Calamity, Night Film has a mostly linear plot, captured in a fairly concise manner (dragging some in one chapter). Based on Night Film, I'd considered ordering Special Top. -star.I read Marisha Pessl's other novel, Night Film, and really liked it. Unlike Calamity, Night Film has a mostly linear plot, captured in a fairly concise manner (dragging some in one chapter). Based on Night Film, I'd considered ordering Special Top. D.R.M said What just happened?. This is a brilliant book, an exhausting, captivating, wild ride of a book. The reader reviews were helpful. One review not so much -- the one taking offense at the harsh way people were described. Those descriptions were part of the definition of Blue and her father.I did do some skimming over references, and cases of extreme exposition. However, I'm in awe of this author and her research, and I would be on standby for her next book. Pessl is in a league with Donna Tartt.. William S. Oetting said Uncontrolled Creative Potential. A good creative idea does not always make for a great read. A good plot can be mangled by a literary idea.Pessl pushed her idea of a book filled with references to the point that it overwhelmed the actual story. My advice, ignore the references unless you are familiar to the work being referred to. The plot gets off to a great start as we discover Blue's unusual life with her father. We are soon connected to Hannah Schneider and the bluebloods that seem to be interesting characters, yet the bluebloods soon become
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Pessl's showy (often too showy) debut novel, littered as it is with literary references and obscure citations, would seem to make an unlikely candidate for a successful audiobook. Card reads as if she is composing the book as she goes along, with a palpable sense of enjoyment present in almost every line reading. Her girlish voice, immature but knowing, is the perfect sound for Pessl's protagonist and narrator Blue van Meer, wise beyond her years even as she stumbles through a disastrous final year of high school. Yet actor and singer Emily Janice Card (a North Carolina native like the author) has a ball with Pessl's knotty, digressive prose, eating up Pessl's arra
The mesmerizing New York Times bestseller by the author of Night FilmMarisha Pessl’s dazzling debut sparked raves from critics and heralded the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. Gallway School, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Upon entering the elite St. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon