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The Lies of Locke Lamora Week 2 Questions Straight from our own lovely Nrlymrtl, here are the questions for this week's discussion. Enjoy! and make sure to check out DarkCargo.com, where a LOT of discussion will be taking place on the subject (they're the host this week). Also, I'll post my answers at the end.

Welcome Lynchmob!

Here follows the questions in the second week of the Lies of Locke Lamora Read Along. You are on the Super Secret List and hence are privileged to these ahead of Saturday's posting. I look forward to your inciteful and snarky comments, but please don't post anything until Saturday. This segment covers Chapter 3 through the end of the Interlude: The Boy Who Cried for a Corpse.

1. The first time I read this story, I felt like something would go horribly, terribly wrong, but that Locke would pull it out in the end. It's an amazing thing to have such confidence in a character that seems to be biting off more than he can chew, but that's how I felt.

2. To be honest, I hadn't really noticed the detail in the drinks until now. I guess it was just another part of the "setting" for me.

3. Oh Sabetha, ever mysterious, and with some clear-yet-unspoken connections to Locke's past. She's definitely a mystery, that one.

4. I thought it was pretty creepy, yeah. Probably not as much as you did, but there's definitely a lot of "Eww, why?" going on.

5. It would make for an interesting story to see Locke as the Capa of Camorr at some point, or at least with a huge amount of influence. And they clearly get along. There have been worse arranged marriages, I suppose. But reading through it the first time, I didn't think it would happen.

6. The first time I read this book, I assumed that The Gray King was trying to undermine Barsavi's tight-knit group of leadership, and make it look like the Capa couldn't take care of his own people, so why not let The Gray King take care of them instead.

7. The Boy Who Cried for a Corpse is my second favorite flashback in the novel (thankfully, my favorite is in the week that I make up the questions!). I think that Chains really learned what he had that day in Locke. He's someone that can get the job done, AND do it in such a brilliant way that he recoups the original cost of pulling off the job along the way. I'm thinking that Chains was probably willing to give them bigger jobs starting right after that.
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