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Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
Gosh, did I LOVE this book. I honestly couldn't put it down for the week it took me to read it (and almost missed my stop on the subway both ways on my one commuting day in to the office). I couldn't remember where I found this title, and I picked it at random off of my Kindle library to read after finishing the last book I was reading, and I was overjoyed to find that I was completely invested in this read.
It starts off as what you might think is a typical detective story, but it quickly becomes something more: a quirky trio working together to solve a mystery, an experience of reading real documents in a file, a question of fiction vs. reality, an examination of what we want to communicate through art, and so much more. It had a gothic vibe to it, a horror vibe, and a supernatural vibe. Every time I felt like I knew where Pessl was going with the story, she took me right to that conclusion and then tipped the story sideways, so I couldn't get a handle on it, and I LOVED it. She led me right to the place I thought I'd so smartly figured out, only to acknowledge that I'd put the pieces of the puzzle together to find that the completed puzzle didn't remotely match the picture on the box.
I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time (and regretting that it's over, as I always do with a great read), but I'll be moving on to more of Pessl's work in the near future.
It starts off as what you might think is a typical detective story, but it quickly becomes something more: a quirky trio working together to solve a mystery, an experience of reading real documents in a file, a question of fiction vs. reality, an examination of what we want to communicate through art, and so much more. It had a gothic vibe to it, a horror vibe, and a supernatural vibe. Every time I felt like I knew where Pessl was going with the story, she took me right to that conclusion and then tipped the story sideways, so I couldn't get a handle on it, and I LOVED it. She led me right to the place I thought I'd so smartly figured out, only to acknowledge that I'd put the pieces of the puzzle together to find that the completed puzzle didn't remotely match the picture on the box.
I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time (and regretting that it's over, as I always do with a great read), but I'll be moving on to more of Pessl's work in the near future.