I read this a couple of months ago and it was so damn entertaining! Has anybody else read this?

amazing fucking book...i am dominican and have allthough not as fantastical, similar experiences. Then it takes that and makes it amazing. They are working on the screen play now to convert it to screen. Also my boy (he who will not be named but won a tony and freestyled his accpetance speech.hint hint) is doing the audio book.

Junot Diaz....heres hoping hes a lil bit of inspiration for dominican writers...

I don't know about that.

yeah its really early in the game but it is definitely in the works...it will be a tough adaptation but can be really really ill.

The whole time I was thinking, "This needs to be a movie."
I haven't enjoyed a book that much in a long time.

Is Drown worth checking out?

i had a nerdgasm deciding which to read first.

One of the best modern books ever. A lot of people complained that they couldn't understand all that Spanish slang but I speak Spanish so I don't care

the Spanish is helpful, but he directly translates most of the important information, and most of the rest is color that you can figure out from the context.

honestly, yeah, you can get the story without them, but the images (at least in the case) and associations we can have with the words make for better ready.

i'm nearly fluent in spanish and even more so in nerd, but my context for the nerdery is much closer to the story (never been to any islands, don't know many from them other than some time in miami and philly, but i know a lot about history and mexico/central america). but of course he doesn't go and explain all the fantasy shit.

so i dunno.

No, I think you need it..especially the nerd stuff.

but even without an extensive knowledge of it, you can get a lot of the ideas.

after reading about 50 pages you start to understand what the words mean. i didn't have any problems (after seeing them a few times) understanding the meaning.



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i think they're going to have to focus on certain parts and lose big chunks of what makes it so good.

An excellent read. I couldn't get into Drown, but this one had my attention from the beginning.

Reading it made me wish I spoke spanish because at some points i felt like i was missing something, but eventually i caught on to the meaning of the spanish words.

I don't know if i would want to see a movie. The book is a little to painful and uncomfortable to see on the screen.

but as a miniseries on HBO, that could work...

who's writing the script? hopefully, they got someone of color to do it...

i think i'd have to hurl if i saw "Written by Akiva Goldsman or William Goldman...." you get my point.

i love it

the girl's little brother in Raising Vic Vargas is kinda who i picture Oscar to look/act like.

Right before I finished the book a few months ago, I was driving and stopped at a stop light and I swear Oscar crossed the street. This kid looked so much like Oscar that I had to immediately text my homegirl who was reading the book too at the time.

I have read "Drown" also by Junot Diaz. A wonderful expose on growing up poor in rural DR but also the trials and struggles faced by emigrating families from DR to the US.

One of my old instructors, Achy Obejas, has also been rumored to be translating The Brief and Wonderful Life...into Spanish.

I just can't see that turning out well for some reason.

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i'll add my opinion shortly.

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i read it in two days.

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i haven't enjoyed a book this much in years.

having read 'the feast of the goat' by llosa a while ago, it was really interesting to get a completely contrasting perspective on that book and its presentation of the 'truth'.

junot diaz is a legend.

i'm thirty pages in.

godfuckindamn.

i almost threw the book across the room at the half reference to ray bradbury's venus story.

goddamn.

i had never even heard of this book before.

i went to the store to buy another copy of the confederacy of dunces and picked this up instead.

how the fuck do you not have a confederacy of dunces?

That hits close to home.

The whole time I envisioned Oscar looking like this guy. He does radio up in Boston (104.1 WBCN). Somebody else has to know who he is.

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That's probably one of the best chapters I've read in any book in a long time.

I picked it up last week but it has been sitting around since then so I'll probably try to see if I can knock it out by next week.


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i wasn't able to pick the book up for a week after reading that.
it killed me.

The canefield passage...wow. The fact that it would be too much to describe the violence is heartbreaking. And she got up after that?

But what messed with me was the fact that she allowed the Gangster to see her again after all of that.

And I think the fact that there was only about one page about Oscar and Lola's father says a lot about that guy without saying anything at all.
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best new author ive come across in a while.
i actually didnt like 'drown' that much.
his novel is a vast improvement.

for charity. im going.

I got delayed on my connection flight back from Cabo and read this shit while travelling home.

WOW.

I can wait to see what he writes next.

Thanks Ike.

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Def how I visualized Oscar. Shit even this kid's depression is similar to Oscar's

it's also hello funny how African, Spaniard, Indigenous colonial bloodlines created the nappy headed light bright red nigga. I have two boys with that phenotype. Dense packed red curls, freckles and light skin. One is Puerto Rican and White. They Other is Half Black half White

I be seeing him biking around too

He's a funny nigga, be putting white people in they
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