The final book that I have read for this class, “Faces in the Crowd”, was one of the most confusing books I have read. Although I found it much easier to read because the writing incorporated more modern words, I finished the book not really grasping the whole concept. There were many different themes of […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with class, Corruption, crime, fiction, love, non-fiction, politics, sex, trauma
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 […]
This book was less short and nice this week 🙁 “Money to Burn” was a bit of a hard read for me as I usually don’t enjoy reading action books. I am a bit stupid in the sense that I like seeing action type stories in video form (such as movies) more… But my personal […]
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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 […]
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 […]
This week’s reading was the novel Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia. To be honest, I can’t say I enjoyed reading the overall plot due to the violence, sexuality, drugs, and gang life embedded in it. However, I do enjoy the narrative techniques and the underlying ironic themes of inequality within the system and injustice. […]
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I know I said that “Time of the Doves” was one of the books of all time, but this book is a strong contender for the book of all time. “The Lover” by Margurite Duras was an interesting book to say the least. This book’s subject matter was heavily sexual, which would be eyebrow raising […]
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Hey Everyone! This week’s book is “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras. This book was an interesting read because it was very strange yet it kept me wanting to read more. It felt like one of those forbidden reads where I wanted to see if the nameless 2…
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Hey Everyone! This week’s book is “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras. This book was an interesting read because it was very strange yet it kept me wanting to read more. It felt like one of those forbidden reads where I wanted to see if the nameless 2…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with abuse, children, death, desire, first love, life, sex, The Lover
