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| Title | : | Everything Matters! |
| Author | : | Ron Currie Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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) |
Rating Out Of Books Everything Matters!
Ratings: 4.05 From 6899 Users | 944 ReviewsJudgment Out Of Books Everything Matters!
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 plotJunior 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
1st Awesome Thing About This Book: There is an exclamation point in the title.2nd Awesome Thing About This Book: Everything else (!)I feel like I really did a disservice to this book by not reviewing it immediately after I finished it. But, as it stands, Im about eight reviews behind right now, so there you have it. This book, like so many Ive reviewed this year, was a gift from my husband and I guess he knows me well, because I loved it. This was my first foray into Ron Currie Jr.s world and I
Wow this was just wonderful! Such an amazing story. I highly recommend listening to the audiobook version, you won't be sorry!
If I could give half stars, this would be a 4 1/2.I loved this book. The premise is unique, and as the story unfolds you wonder, "Where is he going with this?" Currie then proceeds to go in directions that you wouldn't expect. I didn't expect them, anyway.The characters are well fleshed-out and Currie brings them to life with remarkable ease. The prose is succinct. The story lags a tiny bit in the middle, but then most novels do, and the lag is only a small, temporary hiccup.The more
This is simultaneously one of the most uplifting and depressing books I've ever read. Every time I started to feel really joyful--"Yes, everything DOES matter!"--something would come along to make me question the book's themes all over again. That said, this is not a sad read, just a hard one. This is one of those books that does something to your soul, even if you can't exactly pinpoint what that is.Junior is "gifted" with the knowledge, in utero, that the world will end in roughly 35 years. He
One thing I'll say about Everything Matters is that its plot messed with my expectations. Not that I had a lot of expectations about a novel that opened with disembodied voices telling a developing fetus that the world would end in 36 years, but Currie's story of a typical American life with a few very untypical things about it dodges easy categorization. It's neither magic realism, nor science fiction, nor a supernatural tale, but more of an earnest existential drama about the choices people
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