Okay, gang. Let's get this thing going again. I propose our first topic of discussion: voice/point of view. Diaz has a distinctive style of writing - influenced by dialogue/dialect and slang. Now discuss!
Did it take anyone a little while to get into it? Do people not like the style of writing? Other thoughts, comments, observations?
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I love the voice and the style and i thought it made it really easy for me to get into -- i don't know if its because a lot of the kids i work with sort of talk in a similar slang or what, but i found it so easy to really hear the characters -- kind of like watching raising victor vargas or something. actually it feels a lot like that, and i loved the tone and voice and style of the dialogue in that movie as well as how great the characters were. anyway, i think it makes the book really move and it just adds to the feeling of this whole world and really being able to get into it even if you did not live it.
one think i thought was interesting was the chaning of perspective (mind you i am not even that far into the book at this point). but i am pretty sure that oscar is told in 3rd person, with the narrator posing as a character himself and possibly a Diaz personality(since he references himself from time to time), and then the sister gets to tell her story in first person and then back to 3rd person (but i think it felt like a different narrator) for the mom's story. That is where i am right now. I'd like to open up the discussion of the changing narrator/changing perspective a bit -- why do this? i'll write a bit more on this topic after i revisit those sections this evening, and try to get a bit further into the novel. but i am really enjoying it so far and think the characters are fantastic.
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