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Brief Wondrous Life	Customer Rating:
The humor of the book is hard for me to connect with. I found it boring, and never completed the book.

spanish readers only	Customer Rating:
if you can read spanish this book is for you. most of punchh lines are in spanish i did not understand alot of the book

Impressive	Customer Rating:
This book delves into layers of history, despots, struggle, and the courage of everyday human beings in a less than welcoming world. A masterpiece!

Junot Diaz is amazing and so is Oscar Wao

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This book was one that I couldn't put down. I have liked Junot Diaz since I read Drown but this book showed a side of him that is deeper and more intricate. I do think that it's possibly a bit difficult to understand, or maybe not as amazing if you do not know anything about Dominican culture but if you have even the slightest understanding of the culture you will be as engaged and amazed as I was with The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Overrated.

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I'd heard good things, but was disappointed... This book had its moments, but hype aside, I found it pretty offensive (frequent use of the n-word etc) with a nearly indecipherable plot. There are lots of giant footnotes which are kind of fun at first, but so irrelevant to the story I eventually stopped reading them. Character development in the Oscar Wao department (isn't he the main character?) was so poor, I found it difficult to care about him. This coming from a girl who cries at sad TV commercials. In a nutshell: The book wanders aimlessly and comes to an ending which evokes little emotion or feeling... aside from being painfully predictable.