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TLDR; The South African man Arno comes to the US in 1999. He cons millions from farmers and rich women. He eludes the FBI and a private investigator in 2008. He

TLDR; The South African man Arno comes to the US in 1999. He cons millions from farmers and rich women. He eludes the FBI and a private investigator in 2008. He flees to South Africa in 2009 with his brother, the leader of an organized poaching ring. In 2011 Arno and his brother's poaching ring are caught by local authorities in South Africa. There are lots of interesting bits of California agricultural history between the plot points.

kbob 11y ago
I am perplexed. Apparently there are people in the English-speaking world whose leisure time is so unstructured and abundant that they'll spend 30 minutes reading a story by an unknown author on an unknown topic and not regret it. I do not have a job, and it is Saturday, and I still felt time slipping away from me by the second paragraph and stopped reading after the third. How can I become one of these relaxed people?
- randycupertino 11y ago
  I thought it was interesting, I read the whole thing because I'm relaxing listening to the rain falling out my window. It's like reading a book, only a long form, well written magazine article instead. Now I'm off to meet some friends for lunch! Enjoy your day :)
- AstroJetson 11y ago
  You need to read more of them, you'll soon get into the rhythm of reading them. Once I figure that it's a long story, I bookmark it for later consumption. I look at them as mini-novels / long short stories. Since I read non-technical things for relaxation, they fit in. Places like the NYT, New Yorker and Rolling Stone often have long articles like this. (Heads up, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone writes these really long stories with lots of detail. Problem is that he's mostly writing about the scum of the earth, so your blood pressure is rocking before you get done.) This one was good TL;DR; Guy scammed farmers out of millions, but all the details, back and side stories were very interesting. Keep trying, there is more out there!

kbob 11y ago

I am perplexed. Apparently there are people in the English-speaking world whose leisure time is so unstructured and abundant that they'll spend 30 minutes reading a story by an unknown author on an unknown topic and not regret it. I do not have a job, and it is Saturday, and I still felt time slipping away from me by the second paragraph and stopped reading after the third. How can I become one of these relaxed people?

randycupertino 11y ago
I thought it was interesting, I read the whole thing because I'm relaxing listening to the rain falling out my window. It's like reading a book, only a long form, well written magazine article instead. Now I'm off to meet some friends for lunch! Enjoy your day :)
AstroJetson 11y ago
You need to read more of them, you'll soon get into the rhythm of reading them. Once I figure that it's a long story, I bookmark it for later consumption. I look at them as mini-novels / long short stories. Since I read non-technical things for relaxation, they fit in. Places like the NYT, New Yorker and Rolling Stone often have long articles like this. (Heads up, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone writes these really long stories with lots of detail. Problem is that he's mostly writing about the scum of the earth, so your blood pressure is rocking before you get done.) This one was good TL;DR; Guy scammed farmers out of millions, but all the details, back and side stories were very interesting. Keep trying, there is more out there!