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More of The Collector is always a good thing. This book is brilliant.

This is so good.

Well those sixty pages flew by. Its good to be back with Parker after a little break from the series.

Woahhhh

Love the writing. Love the concept. But man, this book drags.

Fuuuuuuck

I’m not one who wants to know the future: at the best it spoils the present, with longing or dismay, and at the worst, well. Who really wants to find out how tight the sling is, for your own very personal ass, who wants to know how deep the shit will really be? Not you. Not me either. Because it’s rarely bliss saved up, is it, when you finally get there.

Finally

“‘One day,’ I told him, ‘God will turn out all the lights to remind people like you that in the dark, you won’t be able to tell who is white like you and who ain’t. We’ll have to treat one another equally. We’ll learn it’s not our skin that makes us different. And only when we learn that will God turn the lights back on.’

Hills were made so men could stand at the top of ’em and roll their sins down. Creator is wise, Betty. It’s why He didn’t make this whole damn world nothin’ but a big flat piece of land.”

My father’s tears were things it hurt to see. They could lay against you like a beast who, by all of its downward weight, keeps you trapped until you starve the belief that a miracle will come, that a God will save you, that pain is no more than the shadow of the best home you’ve ever lived in.

Onto part two. The last chapter was devastating.

“Lightnin’ is the devil bangin’ at heaven’s door,” he said. “Throwin’ his whole body into it with so much force he cracks the sky. The devil only knocks on the door of heaven when it storms so the rain will hide his tears as he bangs at his father’s door, beggin’ to be let back in.”

Literally every sentence is this beautiful. I'm in awe of the writing.

Now that's how you start a book.

That was brilliant.

Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

Buddy read with Edward Lorn. My second Irving novel after the fabulous Cider House Rules. Can't wait get stuck in.

"My soul knows your soul. In any time."

What a brilliant novel.

One chapter left. I am not ready to say Goodbye to these characters.

Megan remembering her other life where she dies is reminding me of Jake in The Dark Tower series.

This is superb.