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| Title | : | Everything Matters! |
| Author | : | Ron Currie Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | June 25th 2009 by Viking Adult |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Novels |
Ron Currie Jr.
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4.05 | 6899 Users | 944 Reviews
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In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories-his anxious mother; his brother, a cocaine addict turned pro-baseball phenomenon; his exalted father, whose own mortality summons Junior's best and worst instincts; and Amy, the love of Junior's life and a North Star to his journey through romance and heartbreak, drug-addled despair, and superheroic feats that could save humanity. While our recognizable world is transformed into a bizarre nation at endgame, where government agents conspire in subterranean bunkers, preparing citizens for emigration from a doomed planet, Junior's final triumph confounds all expectation, building to an astonishing and deeply moving resolution. Ron Currie, Jr., gets to the heart of character, and the voices who narrate this uniquely American tour de force leave an indelible, exhilarating impression.
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| Original Title: | Everything Matters! |
| ISBN: | 0670020923 (ISBN13: 9780670020928) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Maine(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2010) |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 6899 Users | 944 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Everything Matters!
REVIEW ALSO ON: http://bibliomantics.com/2012/12/21/h...Everything Matters is told from multiple perspectives of the Thibodeaux family: worrisome mother, workaholic father, drug addicted brother, insane uncle, savant Junior, the love of Juniors life Amy and the omnipresent 2nd person narrator(s). I have yet to find a second person perspective so well written and so relevant to the narrative style since this book. Although Junot Diaz comes a close second, particularly in his newest short storyThe first pages of this book made all my this is a very good book sensors light up like a christmas tree with sheer happiness. A baby still in the womb is infused with the knowledge that the world will end soon. Born with this overhang of doom the embryo, baby, adolescent and finally man struggles to find meaning in his life. The authors point of view on this topic is given away by the title.I was always a fan of the line from Martin Luther that if he knew the world was going to end tomorrow he
I would like, if I may be so bold, to try a revolutionary new rating system for this particular book. Since the novel I'm reviewing is divided into three distinct "Parts," I would like to rate each of these individual parts separately (!!!!!!!). This isn't just because I'm bored of giving a book only one rating (though, truth be told, I am sort of bored of doing that) but because I had very different reactions to each of the three sections. So here goes:PART 1 -- RATING: 4 StarsIt's hard not to
I can't remember the last time a book toed so close to the line between heartrendingly brilliant and just plain cheesy. In the hands of a lesser author this would have been the latter, plain and simple. And while Currie comes dangerously close at times, he always stops short of going over the line to melodramatic cheese. Instead he comes across as a modernist storyteller like Vonnegut - with just enough of a dash of science fiction to allow suspension of disbelief for some of the stranger plot
Picking up a book called Everything Matters! (a book shouted Everything Matters!) turns out to be both a challenge to you, the reader, but also a trap, and a bit of a spoiler. Because you are being told, nay, implored to Pay Attention! to everything. You don't think that's asking too much of you because the book has such a great premise, which is: what if you (this time I am not referring to you the reader, but the hypothetical you, but specifically, the main character) were born with the
Junior has a secret. From the time he was in the womb, he has known exactly when the world will end on June 15, 2010 a comet will hit earth and obliterate every living thing. The story is told over the course of 35 years in alternating voices from Juniors, his brothers, his fathers, and Amys (Juniors first love) perspectives. What should be an intriguing, nail-biting suspense filled book is just plain weird. From the first chapters where Junior speaks from the womb, to the 70s-80s time period
I worried through the entirety of my pregnancy. How, I fretted, could I bring a child into this world? How could I protect him? What did he have to look forward to but melting ice caps, tsunamis, wild fires, genocide, floods, hurricanes, drought, war, war, war, serial killers, crazed gunmen in schools, bullies, etc. Now that I am a parent, I realize I can't protect him from these things. I can only protect him from what I can control, and even then I am often left powerless.We will do as we
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