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Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
The first thing that anyone needs to know about Night Film is that Marisha Pessl is obsessed with italics. This book is a minefield of the damn things, spread so frequently that it's impossible not to set one off.
Night Film is told from the perspective of a disgraced journalist, investigating the suicide of a reclusive cult film director's daughter. Instead of a teenaged ingenue of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, we have a slightly past it man incapable of dealing with his distant family - albeit a man with a seemingly limitless supply of money.
But Scott McGrath is not important, though his lens does manage to catch the interesting facets of his unlikely sidekicks: Night Film is a mystery and a self-fulfilling prophecy, a book that demands that you read on to find what happens next, even if you're not sure that you're going to like the answer. Most of the book is presented in bite sized chapters, but around the 80% mark it hits one uninterrupted set piece that is both ambitious and amazing, and it never really looks back.
Night Film is story about stories and where they come from, and it hits most of the marks that it sets up for itself. The mixed media aspects are never overly intrusive, although they're not exactly suited to the Kindle version, and overall this is a gripping and ultimately very satisfying book.
Night Film is told from the perspective of a disgraced journalist, investigating the suicide of a reclusive cult film director's daughter. Instead of a teenaged ingenue of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, we have a slightly past it man incapable of dealing with his distant family - albeit a man with a seemingly limitless supply of money.
But Scott McGrath is not important, though his lens does manage to catch the interesting facets of his unlikely sidekicks: Night Film is a mystery and a self-fulfilling prophecy, a book that demands that you read on to find what happens next, even if you're not sure that you're going to like the answer. Most of the book is presented in bite sized chapters, but around the 80% mark it hits one uninterrupted set piece that is both ambitious and amazing, and it never really looks back.
Night Film is story about stories and where they come from, and it hits most of the marks that it sets up for itself. The mixed media aspects are never overly intrusive, although they're not exactly suited to the Kindle version, and overall this is a gripping and ultimately very satisfying book.