Ratings12
Average rating3.3
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.