I had to make it one of my last reads before school started.. yea bestseller smchmeller, but it was a good read. More of a genealogy essay in some ways, than an all out story of Oscar Wao. You begin to appreciate his family (sister, mother, bestfriend, grandfather, tia) and their struggles with life, which seems to be more from a passed down stubbornness, then the curse. I wonder how accurate his descriptions are of Dominicans, their superstitions, and the corruption of SD, but if I wrote a story of my family, it would probably have had the same energy (...it reminded me of my background) if I tried to describe Filipinos in the Philippines... except my family is uhh godly & square.

Despite the references to things nerdy (The Watchmen, Tolkien, etc) and 'cool' (Joy Division)... which it could have done without, the last couple pages is the best of the book. What about love?? I guess if I wasn't in it..I'd just be in disgust for its sappyness. wink wink, nudge nudge