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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Cassie

Cassie

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I'm only on pg 17 but I love it already. Even the footnotes are kick ass. Fuku!



Wacky, I REALLY think you'd like this one. Seems like the main character is a science fiction/fantasy/comic book nerd.. I pretty sure the author is too, he's put Morgoth's bane in one of the footnotes.

I wanted to type it, I DON'T KNOW WHY.

"I am the Elder King: Melkor, first and mightiest of all the Valar, who was before the world and made it. The shadow of my purpose lies upon Arda, and all that is in it bends slowly and surely to my will. But upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh as a cloud of Doom, and it shall bring them down into darkness and despair. Wherever they go, evil shall arise. Whenever they speak, their words shall bring ill counsel. Whatsoever they do shall turn against them. They shall die without hope, cursing both life and death."
 
so glad yer loving it!
yeah, the footnotes were killing me!!! lol -talk about nerd humour!
closer to the end you'll find a quote you are particularily fond of, but I will say no more.
this book is so brilliant; - the way you get one perspective on a person and then something is revealed later that makes you have a completely different POV.

the separate voices of the characters are amazing - THAT'S ALL FOR NOW
 
Who wrote it, again?
 
Jesus.
 
Oh, that guy.
 
Close! Junot Diaz wrote it.

Seriously, I have never enjoyed a book with footnotes much.. but I actually look forward to the footnotes! I look ahead a few pages to see if there will be more of them. I think they're so great because the author didn't break out of the style of the narration to write them. He says fuckface a lot, lol.

curiousa2z, I'm right in the middle of Oscar's mother's story.. so about 100 pages in.
 
It really changes your view of her, knowing the story, doesn't it? Cassie, the further into the book you get, the more it all gels together.

srsly - MFers would love this book.

Wacky you bastard - did you write this and not tell us!?!?! :rwmad:


I also suspect Fuddlemiff, Mentalist, and Ish.

Fuku! LOL.
 
Damn, she has had some crazy life! I still don't know what La Inca was about to tell Lola.. I guess I'm getting to that, cause I think she just saw the Gangster for the last time.
 
TISI READ THIS BOOK YOU WILL LOVE IT TOO
 
there's sex.
 
Is this for entertainment purposes? Just with footnotes. Christ....
 
The footnotes are great, I swear! The author calls himself The Watcher, and he doesn't break character in the footnotes. He refers to Trujillo's men as ringwraiths sometimes.
 
I'll read it in a few months.

I don't like Terry Pratchett footnotes but that might just be because I don't like Terry Pratchett books.
 
the footnotes are great - it's like yer friend catching you up on all the gossip in the neighbourhood when you go back to visit. informative but informal, if that makes sense.
 
NO, IT DOESN'T!
 
OH.. I just got to the part where they started calling him Oscar Wao..is it because of this poem? http://www.poetry-online.org/wilde_the_ballad_of_reading_goal.htm It's The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde, I'm reading it, but it's LONG, and I can't concentrate on it very long.

I just read a little more of the poem, and I think it might be why the narrator calls himself Watcher, too. Junot Diaz must be a genius.
 
AGREED. I really thought that when I finished the book. We may have to suss out what else he's written!
... went back and re-read some of my favourite parts, too.
 
Is Yunior the Watcher?

I'm on Abelard's section now, I'll be back tomorrow to talk about it!!!
 
<Is Yunior the Watcher? >
I CANT SAY.

Abelard turned out to be not what one would have expected from listening to his cousin, eh?
 
I finished the book today! Wow.. er Wao! I know what quote you were talking about.. also I loved it when Oscar said La Inca and his mom were using the Voice on him.. so many great things.

Yeah, I don't really know what I was expecting from Abelard, but he was both a coward and a great brave man.. I guess you need to be a bit of a coward if you're ever really going to be brave. Too bad he waited and waited and then did nothing before that final party. I can't imagine living under a dictatorship such as that, though. I imagine everyone did the best they knew how to survive.

I should go back and reread some parts, cause I kinda raced through it. I am bad about doing that sometimes.
 
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