“Then the Kid raised himself up ever so slightly, leaning on one elbow, and murmured something into his ear which no one could hear, a few words of love, no doubt, uttered under his breath or perhaps left unuttered, but sensed by the Gaucho who kissed the Kid as he departed. They remained motionless for […]
Money to Burn is rich in scenes involving whirlwinds of chaos, relentless acts of crime, and portrayal of criminality as acts of disregard and recklessness in attaining what specific groups want or desire in society. The scene involving rape and ……
This novel tells a true story. This is so
crazy that the story does not need to be made up because, in reality, the most
unbelievable and the most cruel things can just happen.
After reading this book, I really want to
say every person could be bad or…
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This novel tells a true story. This is so
crazy that the story does not need to be made up because, in reality, the most
unbelievable and the most cruel things can just happen.
After reading this book, I really want to
say every person could be bad or…
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I think this is one of the most interesting novels i’ve read so far during this class. It kept the element of true crime/true events throughout the theme and most of the events (and I am a true crime junkie) and the sociologist in me was also abl…
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I think this is one of the most interesting novels i’ve read so far during this class. It kept the element of true crime/true events throughout the theme and most of the events (and I am a true crime junkie) and the sociologist in me was also abl…
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Reading Marguerite Duras’s The Lover is a genuinely disorienting experience. It’s essentially an autobiographical novel about a fifteen(ish?) year-old French girl who begins a passionate affair with a wealthy, older Chinese man. A detail I found interesting about the novel is how it actively deprives us of the lover’s identity. For example, we know he […]
I am really working on hating men less these days.
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Once again, this was a book that did not play out as I expected (ᵕ • ᴗ •) It was a bit difficult at first to make sense of what was happening and where each scene fit into a larger timeline, but by the end, I quite liked that! The non-linear storytelling made it feel […]
“Very early in my life it was too late” — Duras, 1984, p.
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