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A very different tone to the story in part II, in describing Win's childhood growing up learning all the intricacies of the diamond cutting business and his father's observant eye, a passage of which seems to be a foretaste hint of some of the novel's tension and suspense. The diamond cutting and examination business and history is related through the MC's father and uncle showing him the whole process, memorizing it
— Feb 15, 2022 09:38PM
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Tokoro
is on page 355 of 448
"One thing I knew from the blood I inherited from my mother: the Portuguese don't forgive and forget. And they love a good blood feud...I wasn't the same person anymore. Angola had changed me. I didn't know what had happened to me in that ravaged land. Maybe working for a living changed a person."
'Four [women]?' 'You wouldn't begrudge a man two steaks would you?'...Who the hell was I to begrudge a starving man?"
— Apr 16, 2023 09:20PM
'Four [women]?' 'You wouldn't begrudge a man two steaks would you?'...Who the hell was I to begrudge a starving man?"
Tokoro
is on page 301 of 448
A shame the books we don't want to are the ones running at an easy pace. This is why I'm not a businessman; too much run-around being done with communicative truth---don't tell it how it and provide clarity, find a nicer term for w/o being helpful. It shows on the business dealings and manner of communicating such here. Exploit or be exploited. Charity or health-care.
— Feb 10, 2023 11:14PM
Tokoro
is on page 246 of 448
Got through the entire mere 20ish pages of part 5, POV Marni's (NGO aide worker and past relations with our protagonist) and her past/raising, seeing how much her mother suffered under the Mormon church's strictures of family and life expectations, become more and more mentally unstable. At first I misread it, husband's action for father's (strict, good Mormon vs backslid), as odd juxtaposition, but I caught myself.
— Jun 09, 2022 11:07PM
Tokoro
is on page 237 of 448
Reflections on Mormon ceremonial and cultural tradition. That's new: Joseph Smith, inaugural prophet, was a Mason, and that Mormon rites can be cited as mimicing Masonic rites. How much can this be historically verified? Or was it a rhetorical device for the sake of the context of the story?
— Jun 09, 2022 10:46PM
Tokoro
is on page 229 of 448
Hard hitting as Malaya all the same.
"Countries are like people, Marni thought. They develop personalities and emotional distress, just as individuals do. They can go schizo like Germany did under the Nazis, paranoid like Russia under Stalin. Angola she saw as a beaten child, whipped and starved, raped and tortured, until it no longer knew what a normal existence was. Traumatized, the whole country acted psychotic
— Jun 09, 2022 09:45PM
"Countries are like people, Marni thought. They develop personalities and emotional distress, just as individuals do. They can go schizo like Germany did under the Nazis, paranoid like Russia under Stalin. Angola she saw as a beaten child, whipped and starved, raped and tortured, until it no longer knew what a normal existence was. Traumatized, the whole country acted psychotic
Tokoro
is on page 218 of 448
OK, progress. I got through the entirety of part 4---no matter how brief at close to 70 pages---just tonight, which is very good progress for a distracted reader like me. But distracted reader I remain, as with this page count, I could've finished another book.
"Funny---in America or Europe, people would threaten to call the police. In Angola, the threat is that you'll be murdered."
— Apr 14, 2022 12:35AM
"Funny---in America or Europe, people would threaten to call the police. In Angola, the threat is that you'll be murdered."
Tokoro
is on page 211 of 448
" 'Cross, one thing you need to learn in life, people are consistent. Losers never make it big. And achievers succeed at anything they try. Running a diamond mine isn't any more complicated than winning a race in a sailboat...What my old man taught me was that people are consistent. A thief is a thief is his whole life, even if he only indulges once. And an honest man doesn't steal.'
— Apr 14, 2022 12:14AM
Tokoro
is on page 195 of 448
I like this internal narration of Liberte apprising the situation with his first visit and tours of the mine, as well as his managers of the it, whose characters he's attempting to pry out as well as explain the behavior of. This is a literary element I greatly appreciated in some choice books I read a decade ago: to trace the logic and thought process.
'Stealing at work was something shared w/your lover, not wife.'
— Apr 13, 2022 11:43PM
'Stealing at work was something shared w/your lover, not wife.'
