julieta's review
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
I agree with you on every point. I gotta admit that what I enjoyed the most was the bi-cultural youth punk and nerdy references, this I why I thought it was a refreshing perspective.
julieta's review
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
julieta's review
rating:
I really did not expect this book to be so sad, and so tragic. Oscar does not seem as important as his history, as the awful dictatoro trujillo, and all that his family suffered from him or anything related to him, or as the stories of his mother and grandparents. Is it a curse that the family has? you never know. I liked it even as it transformed oscar from a funny nerd, to a tragic nerd. The only thing is that he seems sort of frozen in the same problems all through the book, (he can't get a girl, has never been kissed, he does not look dominican, etc), and not because these aspects of his life don't change, but because he never gets over them, it seems to be the only thing he is, at least in the story...Even with some loose ends, It's probably the best spanglish novel I have read.
I agree with you on every point. I gotta admit that what I enjoyed the most was the bi-cultural youth punk and nerdy references, this I why I thought it was a refreshing perspective.