Irving had made their routine practice of "the shot" so commonplace in their time together, that I forgot about even asking what purpose it served being in the story.īut the sentence carries so much more power than that. Maybe I was a little slow to catch on, but it was right then that I realized the reason they had always practiced "the shot". But then I read the sentence when Owen looks to Johnny and says something along the lines of "WE'LL HAVE ABOUT FOUR SECONDS". I thought I had it all figured out - the lunatic kid has the grenade and he's going to try and blow them up. It's at the end of the story, when Owen and Johnny are in the "temporary bathroom" with the children, and his dream is starting to unfold. I think I fell in love with book as I read one specific sentence. ***SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON IN THE REVEIW*** As the first sentence of the story starts out, "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice.", well, I am, too. ***I'm back a few days later to edit my review, because I can't stop thinking about this book. I'm short on time for this review, but man, this is the closest thing to "a perfect story" as anything I've ever read.
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