Junot Díaz may have put himself into a corner. In 1996, the author penned Drown, a collection of short stories about the Dominican immigrant experience, as told through the perspective of one Yunior de Las Casas. Eleven years later, Díaz produced his debut novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar...
This is one of those books that read really fast. I read it and it almost feels like my head how fast this narrator thinks/feels... If that makes sense. It's a good read although I guess I would have liked to learn more about some of the women. There's a lot of Spanish in here too which I'm too lazy...
Your girl catches you cheating. (Well, actually she’s your fiancée, but hey, in a bit it so won’t matter.) She could have caught you with one sucia, she could have caught you with two, but as you’re a totally batshit cuero who didn’t ever empty his email trash can, she caught you with fifty! Sure, ...
I loved Diaz's Oscar Wao novel, so I was looking forward to this one. Too bad it doesn't have anywhere near the depth of the earlier work.I will say that the writing remains wonderful--powerful, evocative, and provocative. Diaz wields language as a weapon and doesn't pull any punches. That's the goo...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/08/this-is-how-you-lose-her.htmlDisclaimer: I very rarely abandon books, especially book club books. However, I could not make my way through this one.This is How You Lose Her is the story narrated by Yunior, a young man...
It's hard to explain why I love Junot Diaz' writing so much but I tried to in my blog post: http://quellebooks.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-is-how-you-lose-her-by-junot-diaz.html Such a wonderful collection of short stories. I tried to delay reading it until the paperback came out but I couldn't resist...
This collection of interconnecting short stories is like an extension of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Well, not only "like," it is an extension of Oscar Wao (minus Oscar). It's a continuation of Diaz's easy prose that almost seems effortless and a story telling style that's self-aware and c...
Just as everyone who loves this book says, the writing in this work is really quite good. It's an interesting mix of Dominican slang and English and helps to contribute to the rawness of the narration. However, the characters were all flat, Yunior was pretty much unreadable as a somewhat main char...
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