The Story of My Teeth
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A novel about the creative process, the value of art and the cult of literary celebrity that follows one man with a mouth full of bad teeth and a life full of stories.
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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.
Not a story to just blow through, it was written as chapbooks to a group of factory workers who then gave feedback and direction to the story.
When my professors first assigned this book to me all I could think was: BORING. Now it's been almost five years and I think about this book A LOT! Just read it. It is NOT BORING!!!
