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A review by scheu
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
3.0
I really loved God is Dead and as a result I really wanted to love Currie's new book. The end of the world? What's not to love, especially when I've read so many end-of-the-world books?
You'll ask yourself "does anything matter?" as you read this, because you pretty much HAVE to ask. 90% of the story leads you to think that everything does matter, because the main character ignores the voices in his head, ostensibly saves humanity from destruction, reconnects with the love of his life, and so on. The last 10% - where the voices start on this multiple-worlds track and the main character relives his life in a much happier way - didn't ring true for me. Maybe I took home the wrong message. My message was 'however miserable you are in this life, however hopeless it all is, at least one of your multiversal selves is happy'.
I imagine that everything DOES matter in the repsect that you can change people's lives for the better, but when it comes to extinction-level impacts, you're just screwed.
You'll ask yourself "does anything matter?" as you read this, because you pretty much HAVE to ask. 90% of the story leads you to think that everything does matter, because the main character ignores the voices in his head, ostensibly saves humanity from destruction, reconnects with the love of his life, and so on. The last 10% - where the voices start on this multiple-worlds track and the main character relives his life in a much happier way - didn't ring true for me. Maybe I took home the wrong message. My message was 'however miserable you are in this life, however hopeless it all is, at least one of your multiversal selves is happy'.
I imagine that everything DOES matter in the repsect that you can change people's lives for the better, but when it comes to extinction-level impacts, you're just screwed.