A unique, beautifully written book about that I fell in love with, got frustrated by and ended up being just good friends with. I've decided that the best way to do justice to a book as long and complex as this one is to start by offering up my overall impressions and then sharing the detail of th...
A library read and a re-read; the first time I read it was when we were living in Norway and my dad brought a copy back from the library. "I thought you might like it," he said, one of those uncanny times when someone gets you exactly right. Because, let's be clear, Special Topics in Calamity Phys...
I liked this. It would've been better if it was shorter, because I felt I had to trudge through hundreds of pages of literary/cinematic/cultural allusions, mentions of this or that obscure reference book, and bits of wisdom courtesy of the main character's scholarly Dad (some of these were amusing, ...
What is that intangible thing an author provides that makes you start a book you don’t expect to like, and then you come up for air and you realize that it’s way past your bedtime? I bought this book because it was the literary gem of the season by precocious wunderkind Pessl, recently graduated fro...
What is that intangible thing an author provides that makes you start a book you don’t expect to like, and then you come up for air and you realize that it’s way past your bedtime? I bought this book because it was the literary gem of the season by precocious wunderkind Pessl, recently graduated fro...
Thank goodness for Goodreads, by reading some of the extremely funny and pointed comments I was able to relieve my guilt at reading only a very small part of this book before quitting in disgust.
I actually read this years ago, but since I think of this book still, at least once every few weeks, I thought I'd pop over here to tell yet more people that they should read it. It is one of my favorite books ever.
Q. - Marish Pessl is a very smart woman and has read a lot of books. She also has a lot of very smart observations and knows how to write a nice passage. To do this, she uses literary words and references smart people. Yes, Marisha Pessl is a very good writer. T/F?A. True-ish? First of all, miss...
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a puzzle, a Rubik's Cube of a story created by Puzzlemaster Marisha Pessl. You receive all the information needed to solve the puzzle throughout your reading, but it's not until the end, when each side of the cube is perfectly constructed, that you see the Blind...
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