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	• Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 243 reviews view larger image
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Worth the words

There are so few books written today that are interesting, intellectually challenging and worthwhile. Although "Special Topics" is verbose it is also fascinating and completely worth the read--if only for the remarkable way the author brings all of the details together. It is not necessarily a book for the beach but when you're finished you certainly won't feel as if you've wasted your time.

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Several one star reviewers did not read past page 100. This book is very slow to start but it picks up the pace AND FAST. It is very well written and clever. Give it a go, you will love it!!

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Wordy but interesting

The book got off to a very slow start but it picked up towards the middle. The central characters are well depicted and larger than life but the wordy style of writing detracted from the story.

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?Dazzling,? (People) ?Exuberant,? (Vogue) ?marvelously entertaining,? (The Dallas Morning News) Marisha Pessl?s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of this ?cracking good read?4 is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway school, she finds some?a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel?with ?visual aids? drawn by the author?that has won over readers of all ages.

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