The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Paperback)

from littlegeek

Well, apparently the Pulitzer committee really loves those family epic immigrant experience books, because this one reminded me so much of MIddlesex, just with Dominicans instead of Greeks. Most effective when evoking all the terror and sadness of living under Trujillo. I was a bit disappointed i...

from myrialadel

Wow. This book was just that. It was funny, but had deep underlying conflicts within that exposed the chracters for what they truly were--their darkest motives and times, but also the good in them. This book was a very realistic depiction of life and all its flaws and hardship and unpredictabilit...

from nbarman

This book accomplishes a lot. It's funny, it has a voice (and a witty one at that), it tells an important history of the Trujillo-era Dominican Republic, it's a coming of age novel and it has memorable characters. More than anything, I enjoyed the history lesson given in such colloquial delivery....

from Lexicographer

Much to my surprise, I am not geeky enough to get this book. I mean, I get it. I enjoyed it. But I got lost in the references to nerdy delights, and even more lost in the Spanish passages. I think that maybe those things stood in my way of loving the book more, because sometimes I would be really...

from tsolinger

The undoubtedly brief, yet questionably wondrous life of Oscar de León is one of an overweight nerd, who is impossible to hate. Oscar, our hero, is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey. He is not like your stereotypical "Dominican cat." Oscar is no playboy and certainly no ballp...