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Posted by: beansfalby0
A whole lot of sex and rape. This has been so far one of my favourite novels to read. I think this is due to my love for true crime, and psychology. My passion for true crime was satisfied through the exciting pursuit of the robbers by Silva. Additionally, the use of evidence in police […]
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Posted by: Fiona W
Welcome to my eighth blog! This week’s reading of “Money to Burn” presented a mixed experience for me. While I found the narrative to be intriguing in certain aspects, particularly the detailed characterizations and the exploration of the complexities ...
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Posted by: Fiona W
Welcome to my eighth blog! This week’s reading of “Money to Burn” presented a mixed experience for me. While I found the narrative to be intriguing in certain aspects, particularly the detailed characterizations and the exploration of the complexities ...
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Posted by: chia chi ou-chin
The reading this week, Money to Burn, is one of the longer readings so far in the course (at around 200 pages which is still relatively short if I’m recalling back to Span312 where we once read a 400+ page book). However, because it its style of writing, reading the book felt a lot swifter […]
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Posted by: Gabriella’s RMST Blog
Hello everyone! I hope you guys have been enjoying the sun as much as I have. I actually took advantage of this weather and did most of my reading for this week's book Money to Burn by Piligia, outside. What a change of pace this was from our usu...
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Posted by: Gabriella’s RMST Blog
Hello everyone! I hope you guys have been enjoying the sun as much as I have. I actually took advantage of this weather and did most of my reading for this week's book Money to Burn by Piligia, outside. What a change of pace this was from our usu...
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Posted by: Marcus
When I was reading the book, the events seemed very farfetched, so I was surprised that at the end of the novel, in the epilogue to find out that these events had actually happened and this wasn’t a work of fiction. I thought that the way of comm...
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Posted by: Julia W
Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well. This week, I read "Money to Burn" by Ricardo Pigila. I had high hopes for this novel, given the themes of mystery, deception, the creative process, and, most interestingly, criminal activity. Still, I like...
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Posted by: Marcus
When I was reading the book, the events seemed very farfetched, so I was surprised that at the end of the novel, in the epilogue to find out that these events had actually happened and this wasn’t a work of fiction. I thought that the way of comm...
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Posted by: Julia W
Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well. This week, I read "Money to Burn" by Ricardo Pigila. I had high hopes for this novel, given the themes of mystery, deception, the creative process, and, most interestingly, criminal activity. Still, I like...
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Posted by: Page Pioneer
“you have fuck-all to do and so you read” (74) That was me this past weekend. Well, not quite, I also had studying and work to do haha, but there was also lots of time to read. As someone who typically shies away from thrillers or crime novels, diving into “Money to Burn” felt the […]
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Posted by: haileygillian
Hi everyone and welcome back! To jump right in, I think we can all agree that this text differs a lot from most of what we’ve read so far, with the obvious difference that this book is about a bank robbery, while most (NOT ALL) have been slightly uncomfortable romances and relationship dynamics. This week’s […]
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Posted by: jack mosher
Hello or Bonjour, my question is surrounding the depictions of violence in the novel. What effect did they have on you and what purpose do you think they served in the overarching ideas of the novel.
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Posted by: Jivan Cheema
Hey hey hey!!! I hope everyone had a great weekend 🙂 And if you celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day, I hope you survived! HAHA. I LOVE it when we have required readings because I get to read everyone’s unique and different perspectives on the same book. It’s really interesting to see how everyone processes something in […]
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Posted by: amryn
I am a sucker for any books to do with crimes so this one was intriguing for me. Piglia follows a bank from in Argentina in 1965. It is important to note that this robbery was down not by one person, but four men. These men got away with the crime and headed to a […]
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