Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by:
Marisha Pessl (author)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics Tells a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. Full description
Special Topics in Calamity Physics Tells a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141024325 (0141024321)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 514
Edition language: English
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, ...
I basically have two opinions of this book:1. ... Yes2. No.From the beginning until almost the end I was entertained but also annoyed. While I mostly liked the idea, the way of writing, the honourable mentions of approximately one quadrazillion works of literature - my dislike for Blue's father was ...
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...
9 years ago
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