Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

2006 • 514 pages

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She found her teacher dead - Hanging by a piece of electrical cord. The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is a student of books and can't let a mystery go. Because all her life puzzles both complicated and intricate have littered her path - her mother's death in a car crash; a childhood spent roaming from town to town; her dad's serial affairs. Are these the fantasies of a teenager too lonely or too clever for her own good? Or has Blue stumbled on something so dark, so devious, that her whole world is about to be flipped upside down?


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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2006)

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Just couldn't do it - gave it 6 hrs, but couldn't go on when I saw there were 15 to go!

Pretentious and slow.

May 11, 2018

A classic coming of age tale meets a conspiracy theory thriller roughly at its peak and the two spark an entirely new type of story. Compelling and shockingly good.

June 15, 2008