Present Appertaining To Books Special Topics in Calamity Physics
| Title | : | Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
| Author | : | Marisha Pessl |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 514 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Young Adult. Coming Of Age |
Marisha Pessl
Hardcover | Pages: 514 pages Rating: 3.71 | 38468 Users | 5202 Reviews
Explanation Conducive To Books Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge—and is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide—or misguide—her.
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| Original Title: | Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
| ISBN: | 067003777X (ISBN13: 9780670037773) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Blue van Meer, Victor Moats, Fayonette Harper, Smoke Wyannoch Harvey, Natasha Alicia Bridges van Meer, Pa Havermeyer, Howie Valerio, Frank Fletcher, Jefferson Whitestone, Ms. Simpson, Wilson Gnut, Norvel Owen, Arnie Sanderson, Ms. Gershon, Alfred Johnson, Roy Withers, Eugenia Sturds, Violet May Martinez, Lonny Felix, Andreo Verduga, Lee Sanjay Song |
| Setting: | Stockton, North Carolina(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize (2006), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award Nominee (2007), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2006) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Ratings: 3.71 From 38468 Users | 5202 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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.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
This one is going back on the pile. I made it over 100 pages this time. That's something, right?My problems with this book are the glacial pace and overwritten sentences. It's like an even more wordy Donna Tartt book. I don't need literary references cited in every paragraph and overblown dialogue and flowery language for the sake of flowery language don't impress me at this stage in the game. The pretentious, pompous tone of the book is also a turn-off. Picking up the book to read it began
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
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!
I really wanted to like this book.But its a train wreck. The literary carnage is so grotesque and horrifying, you cant 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, its amazing what happens when you stop talking about a text and actually interact with it. Ill tell you what happens: disappointment. Utter, utter disappointment.For all intents and purposes, the book doesnt
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
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