I would like to start off by saying that when I found out in the epilogue that this was based on a true story, my mind was truly blown away. I also like the fact that even though this book sees women as merely placeholders and more like objects of desire, the story was told […]
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I think this novel is one of my favorites among all the novels I read this term. This novel is incredibly immersive; the pacing is perfectly balanced, keeping me hooked from start to finish. It made me feel as though I were right there, watching the entire event unfold from a godlike perspective. What struck […]
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I understand the appeal of this and other crime books, and I recognize the point of the story and what it had to say, but it was not for me. I’m not really a fan of graphic descriptions of people’s insides (of which this book contained multitudes). I really appreciated that Piglia didn’t seem to […]
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Wowie, wowie, wowie! That’s what I’m thinking right now at approximately 21.45, and I’m also grinning like a mad woman because I really enjoyed this book! Despite the fact that I typically do not enjoy when the narration stays on the same topic for a long time, I was very enticed by this book. The […]
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You’re searching for something unknown, and so you end up falling into despair. (p. 90) What if we were meant to live a different life than what others made us out to be? I felt this question appear in my head after this quote. This book began like it was written by Dostoyevsky- I mean, it was overwhelmingly difficult to…
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Like with many other things I have read in this course, I found this novel a little hard for me to follow at times. There were so many characters and aliases that I constantly lost track of who was who. That said, certain parts really stood out to me, especially the sections that focused on […]
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The journey back to the cottage after last week’s adventures (featuring Calvino) has not been without its bumps and mishaps–I nearly wrote about the wrong book because I misread the schedule, and was a …
Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The journey back to the cottage after last week’s adventures (featuring Calvino) has not been without its bumps and mishaps–I nearly wrote about the wrong book because I misread the schedule, and was a …
Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn was an interesting read for me, mostly because it is not the type of book I would normally pick up. I usually do not gravitate toward crime novels, and this story is very centered around a bank robbery and the criminals involved in it. It took me a little while […]
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Okay I promise I tried my best, but if there’s any questions about who’s which character, I might lose my spot in the goteverythingrightonquizzes club.
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