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"Money to Burn" – Ricardo Piglia

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d…

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Money to burn – Ricardo Piglia

    I would give this book a 3/10.  I don’t usually like crime/thriller or action books. I also really didn’t like that it was a true story because the descriptions of the deaths were definitely creeping me out to be honest. An…

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Money to burn – Ricardo Piglia

    I would give this book a 3/10.  I don’t usually like crime/thriller or action books. I also really didn’t like that it was a true story because the descriptions of the deaths were definitely creeping me out to be honest. An…

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with burning money, crime, thriller

Thoughts on Money to Burn

Last week I remember including in my blog that as the books got more modern, they were getting easier to understand. I think I have to take back that statement for this week’s book. Although the actual language used in the book is more like the action/adventure novels I used to binge, the jumps in … Continue reading Thoughts on Money to Burn

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my girlfriend is mad at me for reading this book.

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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Money to Burn: the real homosexual agenda

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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Money to Burn

 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

Money to Burn

 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

Reality to Burn – Piglia

“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 […]

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, fiction, friendship, Mental Illness, truth

BANK HEIST FRIDAY AFTER CLASS HMU FOR DEETS (for legal reasons this is a joke @ my fbi angent ;))

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 […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, gangs, Ricardo Piglia, society, thriller, week 10

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