Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780143142805
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0143142801
Label: Penguin Audio
Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
Number Of Items: 8
Number Of Pages: 1
Publication Date: September 06, 2007
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Sales Rank: 113790
Studio: Penguin Audio

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The long-awaited-and thrillingly satisfying, genuinely original- first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the story collection Drown.

Amazon.com Review:
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the story of a multi-generational family curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I've read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is funny, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf--you won't be disappointed. --Brad Thomas Parsons




Rating: - Overrated
This book was recommended by several people and I read great things about it online. However, I felt it was incredibly overrated and no where near the previous Pulitzer Prize winner (The Road). It was painful to get through. The lack of Spanish translations and long pointless footnotes drove me nuts.

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Rating: - This Book is KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF FANTASTIC!
For me, Pulitzer Prize Winners are hit or miss. Oscar Wao is a bullseye. I loved everything about it. I read it in two days because I could not put it down. After almost a month, the story still lingers with me and I think about it every day and wish that every book I read bolled me over like TBWLOOW.

The story follows Dominican loser Oscar De Leon through his childhood and early adulthood. He is a sci-fi, fantasy, dungeons and dragons overweight loveable loser who has many unrequited ... Read More

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Rating: - Interesting, yet Frustrating
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao follows the life of a nerdy young man living in New York. Oscar is a comic book-loving overweight kid who is obsessed with girls, but lacks any kind of social skills to actually form a relationship. Even worse, he is of Dominican heritage, and has a reputation to live up to. Also, his family is haunted by a fukú, or curse, resulting from his mother's interactions with the former dictator of the Dominican Republic. The narration is done ... Read More

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Rating: - Read It! It's Brilliant!
Don't be misled by other reviewers. This novel is brilliant, utterly mesmerizing. Common humanity leaps out of each page, perhaps as often as a truly brilliant turn of a phrase or description of an event. Characters are vividly realized, Diaz's style actually changes to reflect the characters he focuses particular sections on, he invokes the magic of places most of us will never see and wouldn't be able to see in his way anyway. I read it in three days while in Iraq, meaning I went on maybe 90 minutes ... Read More

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Rating: - An OK read, I guess...
Not quite done... been working on this one for almost 3 weeks, which is a long time. I will read some, put it down for a few days, read a little more, put it down, etc. etc.

I will finish it, hopefully by the end of the week. Again, it is ok but I don't know if I would recommend it to anyone... I thought the Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green was a much better book, but I guess because this one incorporates so much Dominican political history it is worthy of the Pulitzer Prize?

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