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was an _amazing_ feeling..). Balzac also knows his humans and describes the
human traits and the things you don't expect characters to do or say. All the
little unflattering internal thoughts.. When a character gives you goose
bumps, the author is doing something right.

"How the Steel Was Tempered", by Nikolaï Ostrovski: relates the adventures of
Pavka Korchagin, a kid warrior during the Russian Revolution.

"On the Genealogy of Morality", Friedrich Nietzsche. I found it in a library
and I had just enough money to buy it, so I did and walked 5 miles home. I was
asked by a beggar for the equivalent of a dollar, and it made me laugh.

Except for Ostrovski, Balzac, and Pascal which we had at home, the others were
from a Canadian university's website. You can't order just any book youCongo as a security guard.

He is also a hitman for hire, something he keeps hidden from his doctor lover Jasmine Trinca. But, after shooting the Congo’s Minister of Mining on the instructions of his assassin-for-hire colleague Javier Bardem, Penn is forced to flee without telling Trinca…

Several years pass (at least is seemed that way to me) and Penn is back in Darkest Africa only to be attacked, presumably for some past transgression. Having (I assume) read the script he heads back to Europe where – relying as much on lovingly photographed locations as on the story, he sets out to find out who wants him dead and fix them.

The plot is even less plausible than the average election manifesto. Penn starts off in London where he reunites with