A review by underdog30
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

2.0

Where shall I begin with this one? It's over-written, it's over-cute. I spent half of the book hating every character in it and the rest of the book annoyed that I could hate characters so lacking in dimension. After feeling the first hundred pages or so were just too precious for words (oh, what an adorably precocious main character!), I settled into the heart of the novel accepting the fact that it was more or less a piece of Young Adult literature for the AP set (hey, professor, look what I can do!). However, any mild good will I may have had came crashing down over the last fifty ridiculous pages. I have heard some say that this book could be a hundred pages shorter. I think it can be twice that shorter and still be just as good...bad...whatever.