books like an absolutely remarkable thing

I honestly wasn’t sure that this book was for me. As the entire world collectively tries to figure out where these Carls have come from and what their mission is, April and her friends find themselves at the forefront of it all, turning her into an internet sensation and changing her life forever. When April wakes up the next afternoon, the video has gone viral and she finds out that many other Carls have mysteriously appeared in cities around the world at roughly the same time that she discovered New York Carl. As a graduate from a design school, and an appreciator of fine arts, she marvels at the beauty of the sculpture, which she names ‘Carl’, and calls her best friend Andy out to create a video of the sculpture with her. The novel begins when our protagonist and narrator, April May, stumbles upon a 10-feet tall metal, Transformer-like sculpture at 3am in the middle of Manhattan. I have to say that when a copy showed up on my doorstep (thanks to the lovely people at Hachette), I lost a lot of my enthusiasm… mostly because the main character’s name is April May. It took another 3 weeks for me to pick it up, and I ended up alternating between the physical copy and the audiobook, which I purchased myself.Īn Absolutely Remarkable Thing combines science fiction with Hank Green’s own experience with social media/internet fame, culminating into a quirky and mysterious story.

I have been a long-time viewer of Hank Green and the vlogbrothers, along with the other shows that Hank has hosted, including SciShow and Crash Course, and I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life for Hank’s debut novel. Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube.

Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Published by Hachette Australia on September 25, 2018Īmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia | Barnes & Noble Series: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing #1 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Books like an absolutely remarkable thing