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Loosing My Espanish: A Novel

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I got this book as a gift, and it sat on my shelf for nearly a year. Couldn't get into it at first, took me a couple of tires, but when I finally got into it WOW! This is a powerful, wonderful and unusual statement about idenity and loss. The lanuage is lyrical and touching, the narrator is compelling. This is one hell of a book.

If Marcel Proust and James Joyce were to have had a baby that they taught Spanglish it would be H G Carrillo.

I finished this novel three evenings ago and am still folded within it. Thank you a thousand times to the author.

I picked up a copy of this book out of curiosity. It was difficult for me to read as I do not know "Espanish" very well and the dialogue jumps back and forth quite a bit between English and Spanish/Espanish. I was able to understand for the most part what was going on, though.

I must say that I found some of the writing to be a bit pretentious at times, but the character development was quite excellent. I found myself becoming quite interested in what was going to happen next with the characters.

I found some moments in the book to be quite humorous, whether they were intended to be or not, probably because some events in the book resembled some moments in my youth.

The first two thirds of the book were really quite good, but it became obvious that the last one third of the book was quickly thrown together to finish off the book. The last one third felt quite disjointed, hurried, and hap-hazard. It's a shame that what started out as such a promising novel had to be finished off in such a disappointing fashion. It felt like the author was distracted or being pressured into hurrying up to finish the book to get it published before it really was ready.

Overall, it's an "okay" book, especially considering it was the author's first attempt at writing a novel. Hopefully if he decides to write another book, he'll either take or be allowed to take the time to finish it off properly. It's a shame to start something special and finish it off like it has become something to get done with and out of the way.

Although I liked and understood what the author was trying to do with this story - the way it was written left me baffled and bored. It was too confusing at times and I lost interest pretty quickly. The transistions didn't seem to flow well and everything just seemed taped and glued together. I didn't finish reading the story - maybe it would've redeemed itself with a fabulous ending but I wasn't interested enough to find out