the body

初洋書！初めてなので、ずーっと観てみたかった映画ので、薄いやつを選びました。「THE BODY（スタンド・バイ・ミー）」スティーブン・キング著。レベル６中の５だったので、２日間で読み終わりました。分からない単語は４，５個出てきましたが、調べないで読みました。雰囲気で推測します。（調べるのがめんどくさかっただけ）
仲良し４人組が、行方不明の少年の死体が森にあると聞いてそれを見に行く話。死体を見た時の少年の表現がおもしろかったので出してみます。
"He was dead,completely dead. He wasn't going to go out with his friends in the spring to collect bottles uncovered by the departing snow. He wasn't going to get into fights in the playground. He wasn't going to pull a single girl's hair. He was everything like wasn't,can't,don't,shouldn't,wouldn't,couldn't. He was one big not. He was dead. I could go on all day and not explain the distance between his bare feet on the ground and his dirty shoes hanging on the bush. It was about three feet,it was millions and millions of miles. He was disconnected from his shoes and there was no hope of reconnection. He was dead.
特別難しい単語・表現はないのに、これだけ印象に残る文がかけちゃうんですね。

映画の方、名作ですよね。なのに、しかも映画好きなのに観たことありません。今度借りてこよう。