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Originally Posted by NewChief
Oscar Wao is ****ing excellent.
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I don't know man...
There is something forced about it that's really bugging me. I'm only on page 100 or something, but it seems that Diaz is really trying way too hard with his characterizations.
As of right now, it's coming off as a combination of a poor man's John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces" and a mid-level Elmore Leonard novel.
I have enjoyed the copius interpretive historical footnotes in the book however.
I'm hoping it gets better.