The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazMy review
rating: 1 of 5 stars
Relentlessly depressing saga of overweight Dominican lad who's into sci-fi and women and achieves success in neither. Oscar starts the book a loser and ends it dead. With frequent digressions into his mothers's and sister's equally sad-sack lives, large chunks of untranslated Spanish and a whopper of a cheat coda, Junot Diaz' book is a turgid slog through Misery Land. Avoid.
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1 comment:
I have to agree with your review. After all the praise heaped on it the book was just terrible...
- Poppadumdum
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