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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz
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Loved this tale of the trials and tribulations of Oscar Wao. Audio is definitely the way to go for non-Spanish speakers because you can pick up many meanings from context and intonation. (I also found a glossary online that was put together by a fan).
The narrator of this tale is Yunior, who I've met before in Diaz linked story collection, This Is How You Lose Her(which until recently I thought was a novel). I like him much better in Oscar Wao, although he still seems to have a problem with promi ...more
The narrator of this tale is Yunior, who I've met before in Diaz linked story collection, This Is How You Lose Her(which until recently I thought was a novel). I like him much better in Oscar Wao, although he still seems to have a problem with promi ...more
This was a pretty amazing book. It's many stories within a story. Oscar is the main character - my heart went out to him as he spoke of many issues that followed him through his life... overweight, friendless, living in a sci-fi/comic book world. We hear from his sister Lola, his mother, his grandfather, his sister's friend "Yunior" (who appears to be the narrator of the novel). Diaz has lots of footnotes to explain the history/government of the Domincan Republic. It's a very gritty, blunt novel
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This was a very good book. I found the second half better than the first half, but still really enjoyed it overall. Diaz' writing is fresh and his writing about DR is informative and personal. I struggled some with all the Spanish that had no translation and not really any context setting. I could have sat reading with Altavista pulled up or something, but that wasn't really convenient.
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This was pretty good. I found myself laughing at so many parts. It was surely more funny to me cuz' I listened to the audio of it...which was great. Oscar's life is worth reading about.
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