Colin Fischer by Miller Ashley Edward & Stentz Zack

Author:Miller, Ashley Edward & Stentz, Zack [Miller, Ashley Edward & Stentz, Zack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Mystery, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781595145789
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Amazon: 1595145788
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Goodreads: 13589178
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Colin fixed on a spot of bare, faded wood beneath a peephole. A cheap buzzer had been there once, but it was gone now. It wasn’t clear whether the buzzer had fallen off or been ripped out; both fates seemed equally plausible. He balled his hand into a fist to knock, suddenly remembering countless fairy tales featuring children, strange forests, and doors that should never be opened.

Colin knocked anyway.

11 The oft-told story is that a frog tossed into a pot of boiling water will leap out immediately, while a frog in a pot of water where the temperature is turned up slowly will not notice the change and sit contentedly until it dies. This is not actually true. Frogs are actually quite sensitive to changes in temperature and will hop out of a pot the moment it becomes uncomfortably warm. Colin once got in an argument with a middle school science teacher over this very fact and offered to prove his point with a large flask, a Bunsen burner, and a live frog. Instead, his teacher consulted Wikipedia before grudgingly accepting Colin’s assertion.

12 It was a long-held belief that the ancient Anasazi people of the American Southwest were peace-loving farmers. That belief had to be reassessed when archaeological digs around Anasazi population centers unearthed clear evidence of cannibalism. In fact, the word anasazii itself is a Navajo term, translating roughly to “ancient enemy.” The Navajo and other neighboring tribes considered the Anasazi dangerous sorcerers and shapeshifters, as well as taking issue with their rather particular culinary habits. Colin found the whole idea of cannibalism distasteful—it was hard enough just to kiss his grandmother.

13 Or, as was once noted in the 1985 science-fiction film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension, “The reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once.” Colin liked this movie a great deal, mainly because his father took such enjoyment out of it. Even so, he quibbled with the realism of a hero who was a quantum physicist, a rock star, a surgeon, and a ninja all at once. Surely, no human being could know so much about so many different things.

14 Understandable, since Caltech is widely regarded as the worst athletic school in NCAA Division III, a fact Colin’s father pretended not to care about.

15 The Thirty-Nine Steps was adapted into a movie in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock. The film took several liberties with the book, including substituting the character of Annabelle for a man named Franklin Scudder. Colin’s father surmised this was most likely to add “romantic tension” for the female audience. However, he could not explain why Hitchcock thought women wouldn’t appreciate a perfectly good story just as it was.

16 “Pressure points” were often used for control moves in some forms of ju-jitsu, a martial art that enjoyed wide popularity among the boys of the San Fernando Valley. This was in part because of its use in mixed martial arts, but even more for its romanticized association with ninjas, mysterious Japanese assassins renowned for their ability to strike quickly and melt back into the shadows.

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