Which brings us to Marisha Pessl and Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
The feeling is called jealousy - deep, shoulda-been-me jealousy that clouds my ability to judge the book itself. There’s a special cold black place in my heart for writers under thirty who come out of nowhere with a best-selling much-praised first novel for which they receive huge advances and instant fame. (12) a (No, unless a boy is born that can swim faster than a shark.) (8) c (Jonathan Franzen: “A masterpiece of sorts.” Brunswick Laboratories, MA: ORAC Unit analysis, presented as bar chart) (7) d (This is against policy at Cimitière de Clarens.) (6) c (~bloods plotline disappear halfway through ~berries have 61 fewer ORAC units than açaí) (5) c (“A Cadillac-sized smile drove away with his face as if I’d just agreed to pay him ‘in cayash,’ as Dad would say, for a Sedona Beige Metallic Pontiac Grand Prix, fully loaded, two grand over sticker price, driving it off the lot right then and there.” “Stop the radicals! Join the antioxidant revolution!”) (12) _ “Post-BBC Office is anyone allowed to be named Gareth? Really? Really?” (11) _ “Maybe I don’t need this many antioxidants and/or self-indulgence.” (10) _ “I’m confused about what editors, like, do?” (9) _ Handy pronunciation key for difficult-to-pronounce words like “açaí” or “pessl” (8) _ Authoritative blurb raises questions about agenda of blurber (5) _ Contains metaphors that go down like a junebug having lion sex in a bourbon mood (4) _ It seemed sort of good in the beginning, but by the end I was like, “Blaahahhgajh. (3) _ If feeling extremely charitable, I might call it “frothy” (b) The bottle of açaí juice I bought for lunch Reviews of “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” and the Bottle of Açaí Juice I Bought for Lunch Cleverly Masked as SAT Test Questions
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