Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn” was a long and chaotic book filled with too many names and nicknames that made it hard to keep track of what was happening. It took a lot of motivation to read this one especially since the last few books I’ve read have been quite short. The content of the […]
First of all, I must admit that this is a genre of novels I am not particularly interested in, those about robbery, crime, and the like. So, before reading this book, I had already formed my opinion about it. After finishing it, I feel that although it is not much different from what I expected, […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, dislike, drug, money, problem, robbery, violence
Ricardo Piglia’s novel, “Money to Burn,” is a refreshing change of literature that follows the escape route of a group of criminals as they speed to escape from Buenos Aires to Uruguay with the police tight on their heels. This book offered a different reading experience compared to the other readings in this course, it […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, Drugs, escape, Heist, money, Police, sexuality, violence
This week’s reading of “Money to Burn” was certainly an interesting one. I can’t say I loved reading it. I personally would not classify this as a thriller, for the scariest part was how vulgar and gross the men were. It was not enjoyable to read because of their disgusting sex lives and their views […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Argentina, burn, crazy, crime, Drugs, money, robbery, violence
Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week’s book. This week we delved into Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn. It’s safe to say this was definitely my least favourite book. The jump from reading books about childhood, romance, and death, to violence was weird, but honestly the change was good. The story has several main characters […]
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This week’s novel was ‘Money to Burn’ by Ricardo Piglia. I’m not sure how I felt about this book as it was action packed which kept me locked in at times, however, the way in which certain sexual acts or violence was described made me feel disgusted. Specifically, the descriptions of the young girl Blanca […]
The first thought I literally had upon picking up this book was “hey. We’ve got the first coming of age novel in a long while!” Then I started reading Plata Quemada (written by Ricardo Piglia), and quickly realized that this has to be one of the most action-packed books I’ve ever read. To summarize, this […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Burnt Money, crime, Drugs, money, Plata Quemada, Ricardo Piglia, value
I absolutely DESPISED this book, “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia. It was a difficult read with the characters being all over the place with their odd descriptions. Needless to say this book had more action and crime than the other books, although the amount of vulgar words was insane. The next time I force […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with addicts, crime, Drugs, hate, psychoticness, sexualization, weird men
Hi everyone, this is my blog post for this week’s novel “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia. Firstly, I want to note how disturbing yet interesting it is that this novel is based on a true crime. Knowing this while reading, it really made me consider the real life contexts and values that existed in […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Corruption, crime, freedom, Ricardo Piglia
“What has to be most feared, the worst thing in life, always happens out of the blue, without anyone being ready for it, which makes it all the worse, because one is both waiting but has no time to get used to the idea and is caught out, paralysed, yet obliged to act and take […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with betrayal, Corruption, crime, Drugs, love, mafia, money, morality, queer, robbery
