Everything Matters!
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101050927 (1101050926)
Publish date: June 25th 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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...