I don't know about you guys, but I've totally read the first 107 pages of Special Topics in Calamity Physics already.
How can you not love a book that starts out talking about how great professors are, and how the curriculum is some sort of divine tool to organize the chaos of life itself? And the annotations...awesome. It's always nice to have my dependence on the structure of academia justified by my choice of reading material. Sometimes the meta grates a little, but for the most part, very enjoyable.
But I do hate that I've fallen into another of those quirky high school novels. I mean, really. Has there ever been a young adult novel, or an adult coming-of-age novel, that accurately depicted high school? Maybe it's just me, and the fact that I went to a terrible public high school and was completely oblivious to high school social dynamics as well, but...who has all these kooky teachers? Cliques with goofy nicknames, and without even slightly permeable membranes? Did anyone else ever have that "golden child" no fictional high school is complete without, beloved by everyone including teachers, etc. etc.? And the study group...really? I find it all wholly alien to my personal high school experience--not this book in particular, really, just...every depiction of high school life, ever. And maybe that's the point, and I know high school (particularly from my personal perspective) is not really the stuff of legend (or even popular fiction), but I'm really sick of all the revisionist crap out there.
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