I mostly enjoyed this sprawling look at three generations of a Dominican family possibly suffering under an inherited curse. I just didn't have much patience for the title character, who regularly develops crushes on girls, gets close to them as friends, and is then upset when they won't break up with their boyfriends to sleep with him. Luckily the parts about the rest of his family were much more engaging, particularly in detailing life under the dictator Rafael Trujillo. I also liked that the narrator was a huge nerd who kept referencing things like The Lord of the Rings and Stephen King's The Stand (although since these references are never explained in much detail, I could see this being a drawback to a reader who wasn't familiar with those properties). But it's hard to shake the feeling that this would have been a better story without Oscar in it.