There's something about this that this book sounds very american, but like, is, it's very bleak, i guess. It's funny, cause at the end of the book, when everything's going sour, like george talks about when he knows it's not going to work out. Ah, so they let only a couple of characters know what their plan is, and say it to the old man candy, and his immediate response is, i've got some money. I'm pretty useless, but i'll give it to you if you let me come on. Cause, like, that's his only escape. So you kind of see these, these characters get that twinkle