Train Dreams

And then you say, I think he uses pain maturely, not cheaply.

The grieving of the protagonist in Train Dreams feels very realistic.

Train Dreams is the only book of his that I've read.

And I read it on a train and thought that that would make me remember it.

I have maybe a disability where I just don't remember any books that I've ever read.

So I have to make notes.

in a specific book of all the things i love about a book and the page for train dreams is is thick yeah i like how clear he is i like how clear he is i like how he doesn't exaggerate to make something feel more important than it is he trusts the reader to find importance

yeah

'Cause in, in a lot of those type of stories it'll be like, you know, the hoodlum with a heart of gold or something like that, and that is not, that's not what's going on in, uh, in Jesus' Son or in any of his other stories either.

Like, Train Dreams is one that's really popular with him, and they did a Netflix adaptation of that book recently.

And the [laughs] in the book, the very first scene is a bunch of, like, white laborers trying to throw a Chinese guy into the river.

Um-

The first one that I read was Angels, and that's sort of like a crime story.

There's a, a heavy criminal element to it at least.

Uh, and then I read Train Dreams-

Yeah.