Brief and Wondrous

This book was very wide ranged in what went on. So many different plots, There was Oscar, his sister, mom, and roommate. All these plots came down to one sad person though and that was Oscar. It seems Oscar had bad luck with everything productive he tried from the moment he had two girl friends. Obviously, Oscar picked the better looking of the two and from that moment on anything that would benefit Oscar in his life kind of just didn't work out for him. He had terrible luck with girls for the rest of his "brief and wondrous life" all up until the very end with his last girl. But still, bad luck followed him all the way up until that point. part of me wonders if this is because he just had no self confidence whatsoever. I really pitied Oscar because no matter what the circumstances he always failed. He couldn't get in shape even when his roommate was willing to train and help him. One of the funnier things to me in the story was he was so bad at everything he wasn't even able to kill himself when he tried. He was that pathetic at everything.

I actually only enjoyed a couple part of this book at all. The first and most memorable part was the part about Oscar's mom when she was growing up. I figure I like it because I am a guy and it was fun to read about his mom when she was pretty and there was action that was going down with the gangster and the mom's attempted murder. It really was the only part of the sotry that had me page turning. The second part that was... readable was the sister side plot probably just because she was rebel and didn't take well to her parent's authority.