by Ron Currie Jr.
I re-read this book because I remembered really enjoying it. I still enjoyed it, just saw it a little differently, and at this point in my life it reminds me of a lot of the growing up I had to do when I read it the first time.
Nearing the end of Everything Matters!, I went to the bookstore and bought a copy of Great Jones Street. Books like Everything Matters! (and other recent "breakthroughs" like Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Swamplandia!, and The Night Circus) make me wonder whether I should really bother trying to...
Definitely different than expected. Several others have commented that it really drags in the middle and they were right. I did enjoy the fact that there were several aspects to the story line that were completely unpredictable to me.
Awesome story, except for the really out of place rape scene. Could have done without that, thanks.
This had all of the potential to be a 5-star book, but at the halfway mark it sort of fell apart and became a little outlandish. I'm never a fan of the abrupt use of "all expenses paid by a government agency" just to propel a storyline forward (and solving lung cancer in a month? okay...). BUT the q...
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 bec...
An odd, surprisingly sweet book that I was really glad that I read. I picked it off the TOB's long list and am sorry it didn't make the short list. I'm really liking this spate of non-cynical books.
A fast-paced roller-coaster of a read, proving Newton's Law as applied to relationships. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. And everything does matter. The build up of the book seems to be more intense than the ending, which tends to lose steam, but if you like something more than the ...
About 2/3 of the way in, the Voice which besets Junior Thibodeaux all his life--foretelling the end of the world but also giving him tips on how to behave, secret details of other people's histories, even at one point a missing ingredient for a medical cure--this Voice says that it's going to explai...
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