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I read The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao this year. It was good, but I found the footnotes in the beginning to be tedious and I think the book went too far into historical detail in the footnotes. At times it came across, as you are concerned as a bit pretentious in the footnote explanations which I felt could have been handled better within the story itself. Otherwise I thought the story was engaging and the writing pretty reasonable. I might try another book at some point.
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