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Rumble
Scritto da Ellen Hopkins
Narrato da Kirby Heyborne
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Can an atheist be saved? The New York Times bestselling author of Crank and Tricks explores the highly charged landscapes of faith and forgiveness with brilliant sensitivity and emotional resonance.
There is no God, no benevolent ruler of the earth, no omnipotent grand poobah of countless universes. Because if there was...my little brother would still be fishing or playing basketball instead of fertilizing cemetery vegetation.
Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything.
Not in family-his is a shambles after his younger brother was bullied into suicide. Not in so-called friends who turn their backs when things get tough. Not in some all-powerful creator who lets too much bad stuff happen. And certainly not in some "It Gets Better" psychobabble.
No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about faith and forgiveness, there's no way Matt's letting go of blame. He's decided to "live large and go out with a huge bang," and whatever happens happens. But when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark, silent place, he hears a rumble…a rumble that wakes him up, calling everything he's ever disbelieved into question.
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Inizia ad ascoltareInformazioni sul libro
Rumble
Scritto da Ellen Hopkins
Narrato da Kirby Heyborne
Descrizione
Can an atheist be saved? The New York Times bestselling author of Crank and Tricks explores the highly charged landscapes of faith and forgiveness with brilliant sensitivity and emotional resonance.
There is no God, no benevolent ruler of the earth, no omnipotent grand poobah of countless universes. Because if there was...my little brother would still be fishing or playing basketball instead of fertilizing cemetery vegetation.
Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything.
Not in family-his is a shambles after his younger brother was bullied into suicide. Not in so-called friends who turn their backs when things get tough. Not in some all-powerful creator who lets too much bad stuff happen. And certainly not in some "It Gets Better" psychobabble.
No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about faith and forgiveness, there's no way Matt's letting go of blame. He's decided to "live large and go out with a huge bang," and whatever happens happens. But when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark, silent place, he hears a rumble…a rumble that wakes him up, calling everything he's ever disbelieved into question.
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I do love verse!
Rating: 4
Rumble starts off slow, takes about ten pages to push forward. It's a very Bury Your Gays book, we're focused on the straight brother's point of view for the whole book, none of Hopkin's usual POV straying.
It's a touch funny the book back and the online summaries really enjoy pushing the "can an athiest be saved" angle with a touch of undertone like this book is about converting non-believers to religion. The actual book is more about how harmful and hateful religion can be. How hateful and mean to homosexuals and people of different orientations they are. The way religion destroys life more than helps it.
In the end it's spiritualism that trumps out in this book.
Matt is a decent character, though he is angry at the world a lot. Several of the lines said or thought by him are very unfitting for his age, but it's not awfully distracting until you keep thinking about how young he is to talk like that.
The side characters are good, none better than Alexa and uncle Jessie, but really Luke deserved to be a bigger focus. This book brings up a deceased gay sibling and how religion and mistakes cost his life and that's never resolved. It's a sad situation never dealt with, unlike how bullying people would be in real life. Luke deserved so much better in this book, but it was Matt's story, and his growth after Luke's death. An unfortunate usage of Bury Your Gays without more proper handling or repentance for Luke.
Cross post from Librarything and Goodreads.
Rating: 3It's a touch funny the book back and the online summaries really enjoy pushing the "can an athiest be saved" angle with a touch of undertone like this book is about converting non-believers to religion. The actual book is more about how harmful and hateful religion can be. How hateful and mean to homosexuals and people of different orientations they are. The way religion destroys life more than helps it.
In the end it's spiritualism that trumps out in this book.
Matt is a decent character, though he is angry at the world a lot. Several of the lines said or thought by him are very unfitting for his age, but it's not awfully distracting until you keep thinking about how young he is to talk like that.
The side characters are good, none better than Alexa and uncle Jessie, but really Luke deserved to be a bigger focus. This book brings up a deceased gay sibling and how religion and mistakes cost his life and that's never resolved. It's a sad situation never dealt with, unlike how bullying people would be in real life. Luke deserved so much better in this book, but it was Matt's story, and his growth after Luke's death. An unfortunate usage of Bury Your Gays without more proper handling or repentance for Luke.
Cross post from Librarything and Goodreads.
Matt has a terrible life by anyone’s standards. He has parents who were only together because of an accidental pregnancy who are constantly fighting and drinking excessively, a recently deceased brother, a relationship that is falling apart, depression, anxiety, etc. Reading this book was hard for me because of how horrible Matt was treated by those around him. Plus, for the most part he just dealt with it which was just sadder to me.
Throughout the book you learn that Matt’s brother was gay and committed suicide. This action basally leads Matt to lose his faith and no longer believe in a God. He writes this essay all about why God is not real that you get snippets of within the story. I really enjoyed those snippets because it gave the reader a better understanding of Matt and what was going on with him.
This is an Ellen Hopkins book, so it is written in verse. It is really different to read a book in verse, it is not something I have ever done before and it took some time to get used to it. But once I did it was not bad. The only thing that really bothered me was the lack of true dialogue. It was weird reading a book with such short sentences and pages.
Overall, this book dealt with some typically taboo themes and I really appreciated that Hopkins was tackling them. I enjoyed experiencing, through Matt’s eyes, how he dealt with all the negativity in his life and how he was able to come to terms with everything.
Rating: 3Throughout the book you learn that Matt’s brother was gay and committed suicide. This action basally leads Matt to lose his faith and no longer believe in a God. He writes this essay all about why God is not real that you get snippets of within the story. I really enjoyed those snippets because it gave the reader a better understanding of Matt and what was going on with him.
This is an Ellen Hopkins book, so it is written in verse. It is really different to read a book in verse, it is not something I have ever done before and it took some time to get used to it. But once I did it was not bad. The only thing that really bothered me was the lack of true dialogue. It was weird reading a book with such short sentences and pages.
Overall, this book dealt with some typically taboo themes and I really appreciated that Hopkins was tackling them. I enjoyed experiencing, through Matt’s eyes, how he dealt with all the negativity in his life and how he was able to come to terms with everything.