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 […]
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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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…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with creative process, crime, Deception, Mystery
“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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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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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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Even though I’m not a huge fan of action and thriller novels, out of all the books we’ve read, I thought this one was the easiest to understand. Piglia toys with the lines separating fact from fiction in this book, utilizing actual occurrences as a springboard for more in-depth subjects. The story interacts with Argentine literary […]
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I think we all need to start off by giving a round of applause to Professor Jon Beasley-Murray for making this book a required reading because IT WAS FIREEEEEE. I know everyone is raving about how they loved this book and just the whole crime genre in general which I love to hear because crime, […]
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Hello again everyone, I’m back to discuss this week’s book: Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia. This book is without a doubt my favourite so far in the course. The fact that it is based on a true story makes it even more interesting to me. The events that take place are so gruesome and […]
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In the realm of crime fiction, Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn” stands out as a gripping narrative that transcends the boundaries of the genre. The novel reconstructs the infamous heist that took place over the span of September to November 1965, where an armed gang intercepted a van transporting a staggering sum of over $7,000,000 […]
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