the pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

"Special Topics in Calamity Physics" is the best thing I've read this year. It's as if Nabokov and Jonathan Safran Foer wrote "The Secret History." Oh, and the, the crossreferencing!

Okay, granted I haven't finished it yet, but I haven't felt this hyperbolic about a new author since I discovered A. M. Homes.