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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
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MegaraTheDiary
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Why it's taking me forever to finish consuming this — 4 weeks ago

Can somebody explain to me why, oh why the editor did not chop off 150 pages off this book? So far none of what I’ve read is necessary. I’ve been hauling this book for months and I can’t read more than a page at a time. However I’m giving it a chance, I’m sure it must own up to the hype it made, but so it has been snobbish unnecesary babble.

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics — 1 year ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

A buoyant and hyper-literary debut, Marisha Pessl’s ‘Special Topics in Calamity Physics’ is a murder mystery narrated by a precocious teenage girl, the only child of a brilliant, nomadic professor and a dead mother. Each of the books chapters takes its title from a classic work of literature. I was ready to dislike this book because it verges on gimmicky, but I was bowled over by the relentlessness of the story’s pace and the freshness of Pessl’s literary voice.

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