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Dark Academia Novels (11) Top Five Books of 2013 (533) » 16 till Books Read in 2015 (996) Unread books (327) Academia in Fiction (40) Contemporary Fiction (45) Best Campus Novels (69) Books Read in 2022 (3,303) Female Protagonist (543) Biggest Disappointments (117) Books Read in 2008 (145) Scolaire (8) Summer Reading (16) to get (54) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 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. DNF. i wanted to like this and on some level it connected with my "inner teenager," i know i would've loved it when i was like 15 - but unfortunately as an adult i just found it insufferable. i also didn't think the main character was particularly fleshed out, she just seemed to constantly define herself in terms of her father and her devotion to him - and i found the father character utterly annoying and frustrating. i got my friend to spoil the ending for me so i do get what she was going for, but it did NOT work for me. A quirky, wordy, bookish novel. It started out with a slow but enjoyable build up to. . .a lengthy expositional section that seemed to be lost and wondering just where it belonged. It went off the rails at the end and came to a ho-hum rest that betrayed the reader (me) more than a little given the initial promises made by the author. Wonderfully entertaining, nonetheless, so I couldn't give it less than four stars out of five. Sono arrivata fino a pagina 129 e non so nemmeno come. È stata una lettura (seppur parziale) estenuante. Dei personaggi non ce n'è uno che sia anche solo lontanamente credibile.
Her exhilarating synthesis of the classic and the modern, frivolity and fate — “Pnin” meets “The O.C.” — is a poetic act of will. Never mind jealous detractors: virtuosity is its own reward. And this skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more. Har som instuderingsbokPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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I enjoyed Special Topics a great deal, and I'm eager to look up the works referenced (those that are real). There's a beautiful balance to it illustrating the subtle, subtle gradation between the colors of wisdom, wit, intelligence, and education, with varying uses of the filters of charm, beauty, loneliness, etc. Acknowledgement of bias doesn't necessarily protect one from it, awareness of the power of charm doesn't necessarily keep one from being charmed.
The lack of ultimate resolution is frustrating for me, but I think that's mostly due to the fact that my heaviest influence out of the Western canon is ancient Greek tragedy, in which there are typically punishments for every sin, and some kind of eventual justice. There's very little vindication in Special Topics, but I think part of the point of the story is that vindication is overrated, that knowing the truth is sufficient, and doesn't require being able to prove it to other people.
I'm curious about how I would've felt about the book if I'd read it when I was the same age as Blue Van Meer (impossible, not written at the time), versus how I feel about it now. In my egocentrism, it makes me wonder what precocious teenagers see when they look at us precocious-teenagers-former, what judgment is laid down on us by them. It also makes me wonder, whenever I meet a precocious-teenager-present, which of them are going to make good, and which of them are doomed. (