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Summary: Great Book
Review: "Toil" is a wonderfully personal account of work on a carpentry crew during construction of a custom house in Oregon. As a self-employed carpenter on the Oregon coast for 25 years, I have to say Jody Procter has it down: the subcontractor trying to sell you on his latest pyramid scheme; the radios; the inane chatter of your crew buddy; the bad weather, endless hunting stories and monotonous phases of construction. And then those magical days when the sun shines and mitered joints fit like they grew together, everything fades into the background and, as he says, "Work becomes a prayer."I find most home-building books boring, or at least as tedious as building a house. But there's great humor here, some self-discovery, and a few home truths. Construction is the medium. This book is about life. I was bereft to learn he died in 1998.
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Summary: A workbook for life
Review: I couldn't get enough of this beautiful book. It's like a workbook for life, seen through the eyes of a very human, humble and inspiring man. I loved it!
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Summary: I couldn't put it down...
Review: There are few books that are so gripping that you just want to read more and more. Toil is one of them. Proctor captured me fully with his vivid description of seemingly mindless and empty events and days. He seemed to take every detail of every day and somehow make it wonderful and fascinating. I only wish that I could make the mundane in my life as exciting and captivating as Proctor did.
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