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The old man smoking and shooting police and I'm here reading the confrontation listening to Nessun dorma 😂

I heard Wheel of Time was cancelled. So I'll be reading the books again

That part about the boys and the cave was certainly funny

"They moved on across the field, through vapors of fog and wisps of light, to the east, looking like the last survivors of Armageddon." - Cormac McCarthy, kind of laying off the Road vibes with this beautiful quote

The chapter I've read is from the perspective of the Old Man. He trots and walks in the moonlit passages atop the mountain, quite deformed by old age. When he returns home, he retrieves five shotgun shells. He uses a knife to make holes in them to create buckshot loads. Based on my reading, this reduces the velocity of the shot or widens the shot spread for hunting birds or other small game. I didn't know this...

What did I just read? A mother makes her son swear vengeance upon his father's killer. A woman, I am inclined to say, who did not truly know of her husband's deceit, which is a repeating theme in McCarthy's novels.

I am enjoying this book. I swear, if I didn't look at the Internet I wouldn't have known this was a debut novel. The prose is immersive. It is also an experience.