1.) Misogyny. Women are just fucktoys. Men are not loyal, never will be loyal, and women shouldn't expect them to be. Men will cheat and fuck anything1.) Misogyny. Women are just fucktoys. Men are not loyal, never will be loyal, and women shouldn't expect them to be. Men will cheat and fuck anything that moves until they die. Just the way it is. There's no such thing as a loyal husband or boyfriend.
Women have no personalities or character traits. Instead they are distinguished by their body parts, "the one with the small breasts," "the one with the wide hips," "the one with the gigantic ass."
2.) The world is pain. Everything is terrible. There is no good in the world, it's a never-ending cesspool of misery. “Life sucks and then you die” is really not a message I stand behind.
3.) I speak Spanish, so I was fine, but if you don't understand Spanish I can see getting very annoyed with this book. He flips back and forth from Spanish to English all the time.
Even though Díaz is a smart and capable author, all I felt reading this was mild frustration. I didn't feel sad, I didn't really connect to any of the characters. The never-ending misogyny and the unrelenting stupidity (as in “inability to learn anything”, not book smarts) of the main character were annoying and didn't make for any kind of good storyline or plot. If you could even claim this book has a storyline or plot, which I find doubtful.
Tl;dr – Plotless, misogynistic garbage with a dismal worldview....more
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