Scan barcode
A review by literatetexan
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie Jr.
4.0
Ron Currie Jr. has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut elsewhere, and I suppose that Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles is his most Vonnegut-ish book. I didn't enjoy it as much as Everything Matters, but I did like it better than God Is Dead.
The protagonist, who is also named Ron Currie Jr, is in love with a woman named Emma. In fact, that might be understating his feelings for her. He actually seems obsessed with her. They have an on-again, off-again romance over the course of the years.
He also spends a lot of time getting drunk on a Caribbean island and getting into fights. He has affairs with other women to try to forget about Emma. And he spends a considerable amount of the novel contemplating the Singularity and what it's going to mean to his love life and the love lives of everyone around him.
It's beautifully written, and I related to Currie's attitudes and thoughts in more instances than I'm entirely comfortable with. Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles is one of my favorite books I've read this year, although I read it immediately after re-reading Everything Matters, which affected me more on every level.
The protagonist, who is also named Ron Currie Jr, is in love with a woman named Emma. In fact, that might be understating his feelings for her. He actually seems obsessed with her. They have an on-again, off-again romance over the course of the years.
He also spends a lot of time getting drunk on a Caribbean island and getting into fights. He has affairs with other women to try to forget about Emma. And he spends a considerable amount of the novel contemplating the Singularity and what it's going to mean to his love life and the love lives of everyone around him.
It's beautifully written, and I related to Currie's attitudes and thoughts in more instances than I'm entirely comfortable with. Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles is one of my favorite books I've read this year, although I read it immediately after re-reading Everything Matters, which affected me more on every level.