I’ve heard that the characters and the plot in a book can only be as smart as the writer. If that is true, Marissa Pessl must be one extremely smart lady. If you haven’t read “Special topics in calamity physics”, buy it now. I couldn’t put it down. It was more than suspense that kept me up all night reading. It was the fact that the characters seemed so interesting and new and familiar at the same time. And after reading the last page I still couldn’t be absolutely certain of what had happened. The reader is actually left to choose what to believe.
The story is about Blue, a seventeen-year-old girl who witnesses her teacher and friend hanging from an electrical cord in an apparent suicide. Only Blue has reasons to suspect foul play. As she tries to figure out what happened, the reader starts to wonder just how sane the heroine really is. With what I now consider as one of my favourite endings, this is a book I recommend to anyone in my age group or older.
I wish there were more books like this one.
I’m reading “The Shadow of the Wind” now. When I finish it I’ll tell you if I liked it.
Also, I would like to recommend the following books to anyone who hasn’t had a chance to read them yet:
The little prince by Antoine de Saint…Something
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen*
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer*
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
*If you’re not a girl you may not like these.
If someone has read any of these (some of them are pretty basic, so I expect you have), please tell me what you thought. And feel free to point out whatever book you think should be in my List of Catchy Books Everyone Should Read.
2008-03-24 @ 23:15