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   Is the Quiet Ones a good book?

   • Some novels are just a hit, a miss, or one that you were way too ahead or too late to read. This review on The Quiet Ones by Glenn Diaz doesn’t necessarily agree with many of the acclaims and high praises it has received through the years. But this isn’t a negative book review either, just a lukewarm one.

   The Silent Lives of Manila's Inhabitants: The Quiet Ones by Glenn Diaz

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   Is the Quiet Ones a good movie?

   • The Quiet Ones is a vivid portrayal of the urban side’s constant hustle, of postcolonial Philippines in the throes of capitalism, and the silent lives that the inhabitants of the noisy Metro Manila live. But here are three things that didn’t appeal to me (yet). First off, the characterization.

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   Who wrote The Quiet Ones?

   • Vicente L. Rafael, author of Contracting Colonialism “Glenn Diaz’s The Quiet Ones [is] a novel that has skillfully painted the grime of Metro Manila in the most Waze and Cartier-Bresson manner, the gloom of the BPO milieu, the infectious dregs of capitalism, and the prison called globalisation …

   The Quiet Ones - GLENN DIAZ

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   What is a mute story in the Quiet Ones?

   • In interlocking narratives, it explores lives rendered mute by irate callers, scripted apologies, and life’s menial violence, but which manage to talk back every now and then, just as long as the Mute button is firmly pressed. “ [The Quiet Ones] begins like a thriller: a man in an airport, a suspicious black bag, the police not far behind …

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   Nov 10, 2017 · The Quiet Ones follows the intersecting lives of call center agents set in the noise of a country grappling with its fractured identity. There are crimes; there are heartbreaks. But there's also Jollibee, Jasmine Trias, and the kind of happiness that makes Pico Iyer sad.

   • 3.9/5 (440)
   • Format: Paperback

   • Author: Glenn Diaz

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   At once a workplace novel and a meditation on history and globalization, The Quiet Ones is a grimly humorous take on a soul-sapping, multi-billion-dollar industry. In interlocking narratives, it explores lives rendered mute by irate callers, scripted apologies, and life’s menial violence, but which manage to talk back every now and then, just ...

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   Nov 24, 2018 · At once a workplace novel and a meditation on history and globalization, The Quiet Ones is a grimly humorous take on a soul-sapping, multi-billion-dollar industry. In interlocking narratives, it...

   • Author: Glenn Diaz
   • Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2018

   • ISBN: 9715508847, 9789715508841
   • Title: The Quiet Ones: A Novel

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   Mar 18, 2021 · The Quiet Ones is a vivid portrayal of the urban side’s constant hustle, of postcolonial Philippines in the throes of capitalism, and the silent lives that the inhabitants of the noisy Metro Manila live. But here are three things that didn’t appeal to me (yet). First off, the characterization.

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   Aug 22, 2018 · The chapters are more like short stories of the people connected to the heist with the final chapters/epilogue supposedly tying everything together. At this point I must admit that there was a chapter (and a half?) from the book that I didn’t really care for.

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   Jun 3, 2018 · Without doubt, The Quiet Ones by Glenn Diaz is a lyrical, omniscient articulation of rage over capitalism and its repercussions to human frailty. This rage, however, is not limited to rants, hiccups, disgruntled groans and sarcastic chuckles which emanate a weak and unfounded work of art.

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   May 18, 2019 · Book Description: What if you didn’t know where you came from? Who am I? This is the question Josie asks herself when a mysterious letter arrives. Then a brutal murder turns her world upside down. To make sense of the present, Josie must go back to the start. But who can she trust when no one knows the truth?