The Airportline: Observations

I’m currently working my way trough the 2007 Pulitzer Price winning novel ‘The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao’ by Junot Díaz. It is an amazing book from a very unique writer who combine Puerto Rican ghetto slang with urban American life in New York. On the cover the Observer is quoted as saying: ‘Writing like this good comes along if we we’re lucky once or twice in a generation’. I don’t know if I am THAT impressed, but I really like this honest and creative story about a no ass getting nerd in Brooklyn. Díaz writing is both funny and poignant, often in a combination that makes you happy and sad at the same time. It's like a The Cure song, If The Cure would be funny and from Puerto Rico. An example:

‘And he even got – joys of joys! – the opportunity to meet the famous Manny, which was about as fun as being called a fag during school assembly (which had happened). (Twice).’

Or this, a few pages later when he realize that college maybe wouldn’t be all that he hoped for.

‘Before he even realized what had happened he had buried himself in what amounted to be the college version of what he had majored in throughout high school: getting no ass.’

Airportline suggest that you all go out and get this book.