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- Title: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Author: Marisha Pessl
- ISBN: 9780670037773
- Page: 482
- Format: Hardcover
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There s a special cold black place in my heart for writers under thirty who come out of nowhere with a best selling much praised first novel for which they receive huge advances and instant fame The feeling is called jealousy deep, shoulda been me jealousy that clouds my ability to judge the book itself.Which brings us to Marisha Pessl and Special Topics in Calamity Physics Every big review I read of it was glowing and every writer under thirty I talked to said it was a piece of steaming shit bu [...]
Donna Tartt wrote a splendid book called The Secret History which both celebrated and skewered hyper intellectualism as well as explored the process of interacting with a text and the pleasures of narrative devices This book follows roughly the same storyline and, incidentally, the storyline of Daniel Handler s The Basic Eight, down to the study questions at the end , except there s absolutely no reason for the precious chapter titles and the annotated references they have no bearing on the stor [...]
I ve read other reviews and I believe the negative reviews have been written by people who didn t take time to really read the book and follow it all the way through It would be easy to do It s not a book you can speed read See Ulysses by James Joyce Sometimes I ll tear through a good book in a couple of days But there is so much in this book that you have to take your time to really comprehend it and get the good stuff out of it Marisha s writing technique is totally unique with her hundreds of [...]
I really wanted to like this book.But it s a train wreck The literary carnage is so grotesque and horrifying, you can t help but look, read And I promise you, just take my word for it, that metaphor is better than most that Pessl uses in this debut novel of hers Despite what Bayard says, it s amazing what happens when you stop talking about a text and actually interact with it I ll tell you what happens disappointment Utter, utter disappointment.For all intents and purposes, the book doesn t eve [...]
I tried with this book I gave it 150 pages, and at this moment in time I just can t get into it The constant literary allusions and pop culture references, mixed with the didactic and wordy writing style kept pushing me out of the story I d skim whole paragraphs just to find the important, plot moving parts of the sentences I held out hope for this one because I chose it for book club sorry, friends and it s been on my shelf for 2 years, so I felt like I had to conquer it But it s only day 3 of [...]
Yesterday it took me 5 hours to crawl through 18 pages, so I think it s safe to say I m not really into this I adored Night Film, so I thought I should give this a try, but it s not really my thing Oh well
This is a story told through books themselves, a whodunnit, a coming of ager Some will find this book too gimmickye use of a syllabus outline, the visual aids, the fact that the first word of the book is dad and the last word is me thus encapsulating the entire story arch , the final exam But this book made me feel the way I did during a college lecture on Lolita, where the professor broke down Lolita by numbers, the numbers of the license plates, the hotel room numbers, etc They all swirled and [...]
Let me start by saying that I did like this book I did Ms Pessl is probably too smart for her own good, but that s never stopped me before That said, as with most over intelectualized writings, I had trouble getting close to her, to her work There s such a lot of time spent obfuscating, demonstrating how clever she is, developing stacked metaphors and allusions, that the story is difficult to get lost in You are constantly reminded that you are reading a novel by a very smart young lady And whil [...]
Onvan Special Topics in Calamity Physics Nevisande Marisha Pessl ISBN 067003777X ISBN13 9780670037773 Dar 514 Safhe Saal e Chap 2006
FINAL EXAM You might first review my ongoing commentary as I digested this oleose turd.Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a a bullshit patty between two slices of lies b a ghastly spasm of false erudition and pretension to knowledge c nothing to do with physics whatsoever, and indeed infuriating in its suggestion that someone who hasn t even taken calculus is writing essays on String Theory capitalization not, I assure you, mine , and indeed that AP Physics in either its Classical Dynamics or [...]
Full review can be found at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography cclapcenter Okay, I ll admit it that whenever I hear of another young, good looking first time author in New York getting an obscenely high advance on their first book and suddenly becoming The Talk Of The Town, I automatically become suspicious, as sure a response from me as Pavlov s dogs salivating at the sound of their little bell And that s because I ve been around various people in the New York literary industry n [...]
What have I learned I ve learned that apparently it s possible for a large number of fawning reviewers to confuse pretentious with intelligent I very likely got what I deserved when I chose to ignore a clear warning, namely the so called Glossary of Terms inside the dustjacket which introduced our 16 year old heroine, Blue van Meer, as a brainy, deadpan, preternaturally erudite girl whohas a head crammed full of literary, scientific, and philosophical knowledge Admittedly, I was taken in by the [...]
I was about one quarter of the way through this book when I had a strange revelation It was, basically, kind of formulaic And yet, the formula was rare and unpredictable See, several years ago, I read Donna Tartt s The Secret History, a dark book about a group of preciously sophisticated, murderous wacked out Classics majors at a small liberal arts college I was captivated Six months ago I read Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket s The Basic Eight, about a group of precociously sophisticated, murd [...]
This first bit is my initial reaction to the book I m keeping it up because I still think it s valid However, see bellow for my post reading thoughts Oh, how I hate this book The parenthetic statements are making me homicidal The dad is a jackass of unparalleled proportion, and I have yet to see Hannah do ANYTHING that warrants Blue s fascination Sure, she picks up strange men in diners, but really, who hasn t The writing is way too fond of its own wit, and I m sick of all the figurative languag [...]
Let s get my one and only complaint about the book out of the way Special Topics in Calamity Physics is hard to get into I started it numerous times it, but it kept losing my attention Then my good friend Thomas Stromquist mentioned it was on his TBR, so we gave it the old buddy read try and I finally got past the first 50 pages It wasn t until Blue met Hannah that the story grabbed me That is not to say that the opening pages are unneeded The exact opposite is true Everything here comes togethe [...]
Struck by a severe attack of the cutes, an over worked bag of metaphors, and flimsy characterization The dialogue is unnatural and in most cases unfitting for the characters Dee and Dum s conversations in particular strike me as unreal for high schoolers Most of these things are stylistic and, while annoying to read, can be groomed out with some forethought and good editing The book, as has been acknowledged by other people, could easily be a hundred pages shorter than it is Blue I found sympath [...]
If the whimsy of Bonjour Tristesse met mated with all that malignant magic from The Secret History this would be their child This Gen Nexter novel holds the pulse of the zeitgeist under its overachieving, overintelligent finger and lets it be known this is the novel for our generation, for the eager me me onlyme s The heroine is such a brat, the reader oftens remembers past characters like these uberegotist humanoids selfish to the extreme, SMILES here is their side of the story indeed, I know o [...]
I could easily attend a semester long seminar about this book Holy coming of age with murder, suicide, conspiracy theories, and turns you don t see coming because you aren t worthy to walk in the same light as Marisha Pessl shit, this book was great Better than Night Film Bravo.
This was a weird case of having high expectations and having no expectations, and being disappointed in one and reasonably well satisfied in the other Overall, though, I didn t like it, and found it to be pretty obnoxious The best way to introduce this one is to use the blurb off the back Calamity Physics The resulting explosion of energy, light, heartbreak and wonder as Blue van Meer enters a small, elite school in a sleepy mountain town Blue s highly unusual past draws her to a charismatic gro [...]
Special Topics has certainly stirred the passions of readers and critics.cially those who love to hate first novels by young, successful authors At the sight of Marisha Pessl s author photo lovely, unsmiling introspective waif I had to hold down my hate reflex with both arms, both legs, and my forehead Yet twenty pages later, any evidence of hate or even a struggle was gone I was captivated Blue Van Meer lost her mother at a very young age and now hops around the country with her uber academic, [...]
NO SPOILERS What Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a book about a sixteen year old girl and her dad living in a new town What it isn t a book about physics What it is a book about a sixteen year old girl, her five uber cool new friends, and one doting teacher What it isn t all that it appears to be Really, the story is indefinable At its heart it s a murder mystery, but to say that is also rudely dismissive of its thoughtfulness, its quirkiness, its complexity Special Topics in Calamity Phys [...]
Brilliant rendition of an unforgettable brainy teen who feels compelled to leave her world of books to solve the mystery of a teacher s death Many will find the book too long with not enough meaningful human action, but I found the world of the lead character s mind grew on me as a doomed, but attractive, refuge from the narcissistic void facing many youth today Sixteen year old Blue van Meer moves to a small town in North Carolina with her political science professor dad and recounts her senior [...]
Special Topics in Mixed Feelings Report from the Gifted Talented program there was much brilliance on display in the novel in question My report from detention some qualities of it irritated the hell out of me and one glaring structural element weakened it.The premise A genius high schooler is being dragged by her widowed, genius college professor father from small college town to small college town and transferring from school to school Said genius high schooler one Blue van Meer lands her seni [...]
My initial interest in this book was mainly down to the fact that I had read numerous reviews comparing it to Donna Tartt s The Secret History, one of my favourite novels of all time Having finished it, I can now say with confidence that these comparisons are fairly inaccurate and really quite lazy The obvious similarity between the books is that both concern an elite group of young people in an academic setting in this case, a much admired clique known as the Bluebloods in an American high scho [...]
i didn t really read this i read about 30 pages before announcing to the book s cover , I HATE YOU, BOOK SHUT UP anyone who wants details as to why i despise the book that everyone else is raving about might need to buy me a drink first.
I m really torn about this Review to come Review has arrived DA little bit of back story I spontaneously bought Special Topics in Calamity Physics way back in 2011 for the only reason I bought books back then The summary on the back and the first paragraph sounded interesting Then I read the first first few chapters, really liked them, underlined a lot of sentences, and then put the book down for some reason Then the book stood on my shelves for a couple of years in which I bought and read Maris [...]
This may be the best book I ve read all year, which isn t to say it s perfect In fact, there are about a million reasons to hate it that most of my fellow reviewers have already touched upon the gorgeous young It Girl looking author for one, or the denseness of the writing some have called it overwritten , the pretentiousness of it all And yet, for sheer impact, I don t think I could come up with a single thing to top it This book really gets in your head and doesn t leave it the same again I al [...]
I realize I cannot blame DT for everything and no, I don t think there s any ambiguity needing to be resolved there let me imagine one is the cause of the other but I sure can blame the US election of 2016 of making a thorough mess of my reading Together with the 100 years record breaking snowfall in Stockholm, it sure made me lose my place and focus in regards to this wonderful book, which surely deserves better Let s start at the beginning, shan t we Night Film was a book that had passed me by [...]
I read several good reviews of this book, but none of them said that it was a blatant rip off of Donna Tartt s The Secret History It s about a teenager and her not quite successful academic father Now, I m the daughter of a not quite successful academic father, so I m a good judge of the territory, and this just doesn t make the grade The stylistic tic adopted by the narrator is to copiously footnote her story with real and imaginary books However, she doesn t footnote correctly, and I find it h [...]