Hello everyone and welcome back! This week’s novel had the exciting premise of a bank robbery gone wrong (ooooh ahhhh). Ricardo Piglia’s factual/fictional retelling of a bank robbery in Buenos Aires, Money to Burn started off so strong. I enjoyed the action-packed narrative interspersed with the backstories of the different characters. As the novel progressed, […]
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Hello everyone, when I read Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn” it was, in my opinion, a compelling story about mystery, deceit, and the complex dynamics of power. Likewise, I discovered that this novel always brought to mind Arlt’s Mad Toy, which we had read at the start of the term. The characters are from comparable […]
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Luca Guadagnino, I have your next movie idea king! I actually really liked this novel. It was fast-paced, interesting and genuinely made me go WTF several times. I fully forgot that what I was reading was based on a true story, because everything about it felt like a movie. But even with the genre of […]
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Trigger warning: Mentions of Sexual Exploitation and Crime Art work by Kristina Timofeeva Did you see what I did with the title 😏 ????? Cause the book had talk of drugs and the experience of reading it was…well..almost a surreal high?????? No, just me? ok… Money is just the same as drugs: what’s fundamental is […]
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Where to even begin on this whirlwind of a novel. Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn was genuinely one of my favourite reads of the course thus far. I think this has to do with the writing style in part because … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with Drugs, love, money, thieves, violence, women
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog;) I hope you all have being enjoying this weather as much as I have. This week’s reading was a nice change from the usual story lines we have read so far. I’d describe it as captivating crime thriller that kept me on my toes. I’m not usually an […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with class, crime, money, Police
Hi everyone! This week we read Money to Burn by Piglia. To start this book consistently reminded me of Mad Toy by Arlt that we read at the beginning of the term. It’s set in the same place, and the characters come from a similar socioeconomic backgrounds. To be honest I think I enjoyed Mad […]
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No genuinely why is everyone, man or woman taking it up the ass. Money to Burn by Piglia is a book that I honestly did not like until they got to the shoot out/ when they were stuck in flat number 9. Then the book became clear to me about what it was attempting to …
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, Deviance, Justice, Law, money, Outlaws, sexuality, society, violence
I really wanted to like this book, but I did not. In fact, I hated it. First of all, why were there so many nicknames?! I may be the only one who feels this way but I kept getting so confused with the amount of nicknames the characters had. And the never ending chapters, it […]
I absolutely did not like Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia at all. It started off very promising with an exciting start, quickly jumping into action. Although, as the book continued, and I learned more about the characters, I just began to loathe it. I am not a ranting type of person but this book […]
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