The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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- ISBN13: 9780143142805
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The long-awaited-and thrillingly satisfying, genuinely original-first novel from the particular voice behind the tale collection Drown.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It’s been 11 years since Junot Díaz’s critically acclaimed tale collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus “lovesick ghetto nerd” with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of apt a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the tale of a multi-generational family tree curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I’ve read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is amusing, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf–you won’t be disappointed. –Brad Thomas Parsons
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Does anyone doubt that FUKU phonetically indicates the curse of figurative sexual intercourse as either the recipient or the giver, that one may name call if one seeks an identity with an entity, and “roots” promotes UFUK, as in Yunior to Oscar.
Diaz’s book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is a wonderful example of how throwing together some trash talk and a small cultural “home”, can impress self appointed litterati. Persons who desperately need attention to be “on.” Diaz has pulled off a coup of the greatest magnitude, ala James Joyce and Finnegan’s Wake, in helping to depose literature as an art form. But, he can jive and place a boogey tale with it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I know this is a useless review because I haven’t even read the book yet (I only just got it in the mail) but the book is in perfect condition, a hardback, fantastic value and I already know from others that it is a fabulous book to read. So therefore I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to read as much as I do, which is a lot!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Not only do I have no thought how this pathetic tale, pathetic protagonist(s), and pathetic tale line, (if one exsists at all) ever got published let alone won any award, let alone won the Pulitzer. Were there all South Americans on the Pulitzer board? Oscar is not only pathetic but uninteresting in the highest degree, dull is too nice word to clarify this individual. The leader bores me with this character and his sister who is equally pathetic. This is just one long lamentation (woe is me, woe is my brother, woe is my mother) and has not one even miniscule positive aspect to enable one to recommend it as reading. As far as the writing which so many have labeled “sparkling and wondrous”, come on, you must be kidding. So many Spanish phrases and words mixed in, half the book is unreadable and incomphrehensible. The footnotes are really the best part of this book and I establish myself turning pages while hoping and praying for a footnote just so I could escape the mundanacity of the writting. Heck, everybody in America had a terrible childhood unless your last name was Bush or Cheney, my own childhood made Oscar’s look like a romp through Disneyland. Not only is his childhood unimpressive and uninteresting, who cares anyway? So what, he was stout. Wowwwww lets write about about a stout guy and win a Pulitzer. Get real. I would have been better off reading one of Oscar’s fantasies.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
From the first few pages I was turned off by the “f” word being continually used. If I had known more about this book I would not have spent the money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Poorly written,hard to know,disjointed.Also,because of the frequent use of spanish words,I was not able to comprehend the meaning of several passages.
Finally,the use of lengthy footnotes made the book even more hard to read.
I cannot imagine this book being placed on Amazon’s best book list.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5