This week’s book, Money to Burn, is a novel based on a true story by Argentine author Ricardo Piglia. Compared to the previous novels that we have read, this one is completely different as it diverges from the topics such as coming-of-age. This novel recounts the shocking bank robbery that happened in 1965 in Buenos […]
Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog. The read for this week is Money to Burn by Roberto Piglia. I didn’t know much about this book going in (only that it was about a bank robbery of some sort) and was quite shocked by what I ended up reading. My shock greatened when I learned […]
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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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For this week’s blog post, I will be discussing the novel “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia. I found this book to be one of the more interesting reads this semester as I am a big fan of anything thriller. I really enjoy thriller movies and books as they keep you on your toes. I […]
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Dang that was crazy. At first I read this book as a completely fictitious account not at all inspired by a true story, but throughout most of it I was like wow the addition of the newspapers and “eyewitness” accounts really made it more realistic. But afterward I was like… well how much of that […]
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Money to Burn is a book based on crime specifically that of robbing money. But what do they do with this money at the end? Burn it. Why? The answer is based on the reader’s understanding of the book. My understanding of why they would plan a heist, so systematically with no errors, and instead […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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