![]() April and her friends solve intricate puzzles involving, among other things, Queen lyrics, chemistry, and logic, both in the real world and the dream world that accompanies Carl. April is catapulted into social media fame as the world learns that there are 60 Carls-April’s name for the sculpture-in cities around the world. She calls her friend Andy, they make a fun video, and post it on YouTube. May is a hip 23-year-old scraping by in NYC who accidentally comes across a ten-foot-tall sculpture of a Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor in front of a Chipotle in the middle of the night on a street in Manhattan. The story is told in the first person by April May, who includes you in her life so naturally you feel as though you are another friend in her group of friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third thing I liked is that you could decide, in the midst of today’s social media-centric political and cultural turmoil, that April and her friends (and the author) have an agenda-except you’d be wrong, and April tells you that too: “If you get anything out of this, ideally it won’t be you being more or less on one side or the other, but simply understanding that I am (or at least was) human.”Īn Absolutely Remarkable Thing is, first of all, a good story. He first thing I liked about Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is that it is “an epic tale of intrigue and mystery and adventure and near death and actual death.” The second thing I liked is that the narrator tells you that. ![]()
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