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well
fellow book worms
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you have had enough time
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an now for something rather differnt
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True Grit
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1968 novel by Charles Portis
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The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross, churchgoing elderly spinster distinguished by intelligence,
independence, and strength of mind. She recounts the story of her adventures many years earlier,
at 14, when she undertook a quest to avenge her father's death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney.
She is joined on her quest by Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (pronounced "La-beef").
As Mattie's tale begins, Chaney is employed on the Ross's family farm in West-Central Arkansas,
near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County.
Chaney is not adept as a farmhand, and Mattie has only scorn for him,
referring to him as "trash" and noting that her kind-hearted father Frank only hired him out of pity.
One day, Frank Ross and Chaney go to Fort Smith to buy some horses.
Ross takes $250 with him to pay for the horses, along with two gold pieces that he always carried,
but he ends up spending only $100 on the horses.
Later, Ross tries to intervene in a barroom confrontation involving Chaney.
Chaney kills him, robs the body of the remaining $150 and two gold pieces,
and flees into Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) on his horse.
and ...........>
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5:47:51
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Chapter 1 0:38
Chapter 2 9:46
Chapter 3 27:57
Chapter 4 1:20:12
Chapter 5 1:31:50
Chapter 6 2:28:33
Chapter 7 4:08:55
Afterword 5:29:18
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