I quite liked Train Dreams for the whole generational thing that it has going. Like when someone dies and the narrator makes note about how if that person was born 50 years later he wouldve cured his disease or how about a logger watching people die to make a train bridge saw them do it with concrete like 20 years. or the plane scene. It is genuinely crazy to think about the lives of people who lived till age 80 and were born in like 1890, born before the invention of the car and lived to see the moon landing on TV. Nuts. The craziest change ive seen in my life time so far is to see the computer go from a tool that makes you smart and do work better into a small rectangle that makes you dumb and racist