You guys need to read Night Film so we can talk about it.

[Mara]

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

I'm not recommending it, exactly, because I haven't finished yet and it could still end up being a disaster. But I'm far enough in to know that either way I'm really going to need someone to talk to when I finish. It's kind of long so I need you guys to start now before I finish.

I also suspect that it is just up the alley of several Match-Cutters.

What I know so far: it's a psychological thriller. A young woman in New York is found dead of an apparent suicide. It causes waves because she is the the daughter of a reclusive cult filmmaker who makes work so disturbing that his more recent films are only shown literally underground-- in tunnels, catacombs, etc-- because they are refused any sort of conventional distribution. He's a subject of fascination, adoration and grim rumors. A disgraced journalist begins looking into her death and that's pretty much all I know so far.

Please read it so we can talk.

[amberlita]

I would pick it up, but I can guarantee I'd be a good 2 weeks behind you the entire time.

As penance, I'm watching Seven Brides For Seven Brothers for the first time right now. For you.

[Mara]

As penance, I'm watching Seven Brides For Seven Brothers for the first time right now. For you.

This is so beautiful I want to cry.

[dreamdead]

I'd read reviews that seemed fairly indifferent about the novel from the NYTimes critics, though I'd been interested in it prior to. I'll try to free up time in the summer but am otherwise pretty booked.

Let us know if it lands the ending. I think I remember that being described as underwhelming...

[ledfloyd]

This sounds up my alley, and I really dug Marisha Pessl's first book, but I have a lot of reading for school this semester.

I'll try to make it the next fiction book I read.

[Gittes]

I was really interested in reading this, but then I kept noticing a lot of tepid to downright negative appraisals of the book. I still might give it a chance sometime. I think her debut novel had a better reception.

Night Film still sounds fun, though. I don't really like the fact that it has an official app with additional content, but the execution might be great. Fortunately, Pessl made sure that the text stands on its own.