The Story of My Teeth
2013 • 192 pages

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Average rating3.3

15

I disliked this the same way I disliked The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. There is something about this Latin American literature style - humorous, quickly-told tales of unlikable, over-confident characters, mostly told in 1st person - that just doesn't excite me. I was about to stop after the first third, but then enjoyed the middle part (the clowns, a tease of Gustavo realising he's maybe a bad person) just enough to stick with it. Thankfully the book is short.

Some of the experimental structure of the book gets lost when consumed in audiobook form.

June 19, 2017