Ilustrado: A Novel Audiobook

" Miguel is a major talent. This is a great debut novel. "

" I have not finished some chapters of his book. I can't read it. It's a great piece of work but certainly not for me. Maybe it was written this way because it contains sensitive information. I wish I can read this book... "

" I really wanted to like this book. I live in the Philippines, and am interested in local authors. But the stories within the story made the book choppy and hard to follow. It's like it was just trying too hard to be clever. The book received a Man Asia Prize, so someone out there liked it...but it just wasn't for me. "

" Modern Phillipines as seen through the eyes of an expat. Lots of great scenes that I enjoyed as short stories but didnt quite accept (or understand) the book as one long, connected narrative.m "

" this is not an easy book to read, switching as it does from character to character, excerpts from different writings by one of the main characters and interviews and even different versions of events. There are two main characters, the one who is supposedly doing the writing about his mentor who recently died, and that mentor, a writer and professor at Columbia. Both men are expats from The Philippines, the other main character in the book, both from political powerful families, both have abandoned daughters back in the Philippines. I think this is a good book to read twice, just to get things twice, probably a 3.5. "

" Wow lalim! "

" Wow! Totally unexpected ending. "

" This is some serious crap and waste of time. It's like a know-it-all classmate who just transferred to your esteemed university from a small-town community college who wants to show the world that he knows about stuff. I can believe it won an award. I mean, the Syjucos have money. "

" This book was interesting and I felt like I learned about modern Filipino politics. I have to say that I was not crazy about his writing style although some parts were hilarious. I felt a lot of the book was lost of me and geared towards Filipinos/ Filipino-Americans. "

" I just liked the way it was written. It's like combing through a box full of notes on somebody else's life. "

" Much hyped with nothing to show for it. Pretentious. "

" I didn't get this book because A. it's lyricism is just so breathtaking that I get carried away and B. it's mainly about things that don't interest me (read: feudalism, imperialism, elitism, etc) but I have to say, it's one hell of a book. I'm really proud of this. "

" I mean, I can't...I can't even. I don't fully understand what happened, which is what I like. "

" I really enjoyed this book at first, but about half-way through it just became a chore to read. The somewhat gimmicky way that it's written begins to wear on you and makes it very difficult to enjoy the main story. "

" This was supposed to be a good book. Not at all, actually. "

" Great idea...too slow and bogged down in details...when you just want to know WHO DID IT. "

" Unnecessarily convoluted and talkative in a lot of places, but Syjuco is a solid and talented writer. I definitely await more works from him. "