{"id":60,"date":"2024-03-19T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/?p=60"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:46:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:46:51","slug":"week-10-soooo-bonnie-and-clyde-but-more-fucked-up-except-for-malito-money-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/2024\/03\/19\/week-10-soooo-bonnie-and-clyde-but-more-fucked-up-except-for-malito-money-to-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 – Soooo Bonnie and Clyde but more….fucked up??? (except for Malito) (Money to Burn)"},"content":{"rendered":"

These were some messed up characters. Like I don’t even know what to think about them…or even about this book for that matter. Also, why is that we haven’t read a single novel yet with a normal character?? Like no matter what anyone says all the characters we’ve read so far have been messed up in one way or another. However, I will say Malito’s character was a lot more sane<\/em> and probably my favourite character in the entire novel. They were all morally ambiguous characters but he was my faveeeee (this blog post is basically gonna be a Malito fan account).<\/p>\n

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I think what really drew me into him was when his character was introduced, with the description of \u201cHe possessed a god of his own to watch over him. And a halo of perfection which led to everyone wanting to work with him,” (pg.9). I mean come on now, who wouldn\u2019t be intrigued by a character like that?? He was such a fascinating and complex figure within the criminal underworld, even if he was somewhat\u2026immoral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Despite his role as a gangster, he was rational and had a strategic mindset, something I didn’t really expect from the characters we were introduced to. The other characters were all driven by impulse or greed, but Maltio had a much more calmer..ish approach that was based on thorough, calculated thinking (I mean makes sense…he was like the boss). Moreover, another aspect that truly fascinated me was how his character was able to navigate the murky water of the criminal world, while also mainting some semblance of integrity. He did bend the rules and was more than willing to commit crimes, but even then he maintained some control….moral compass<\/em>???. I don’t really know what else to say about him, I just found him to be such a stark contrast from the other characters. Maybe I just find morally ambiguous individuals fascinating.<\/p>\n

Moving on from Malito (*frowny face*), I will say I did not enjoy this book. I thought it was going to be more thrilling because of the bank robbery but sadly it wasn’t. I feel like the storyline was interesting but just wasn’t executed well enough, but oh well you can’t like every book. The only thing keeping me going was my love for Malito.<\/p>\n

Question to think about: A bit of a simple question this week, but did you have a favourite character in this novel or someone you strongly hated? If so, who?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These were some messed up characters. Like I don’t even know what to think about them…or even about this book for that matter. Also, why is that we haven’t read a single novel yet with a normal character?? Like no matter what anyone says all the characters we’ve read so far have been messed up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,41],"tags":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-piglia","tag-madness","tag-malito","tag-psychotic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alizey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}