Jun 1, 2007
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics In Calamity Physics
It's a coming-of-age novel, it's a murder mystery, it's a broken family story. Without giving too much away, let's just say Special Topics reminded of me a melange of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Daniel Pinkwater's Young Adult Novel, Lolita, The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) and, say, The Usual Suspects. (Maybe that's a load of crap.) Anyway, I really liked it, even if I'm not smart enough to understand the chapter titles.
I liked it, but found the author a wee bit in too in love with herself as a writer. The novel was a little twee, but I did enjoy it. Certainly it was nice to find someone trying to do something original.