Insurrecto

It can be a good read if you are interested in knowing about the american occupation in 1900s in the philippines. Story revolves about a massacre of filipino men and children by the hands of american “liberators”. It also talks about how history is presented by the victors of the wars and how each and everyone has different versions of the history (what you hear about an event mainly depends on where you are sitting). The writing style of the book is very challenging. It is not just a book where you will see on a sunday afternoon to relax your mind and finish it. This book requires your full attention because the writing style is a bit chaotic. The writer uses flowery words to describe things and so many reduntant words get thrown around and it is easy to lose the main idea of each sentence. I found myself being lost in the text and go back a couple of paragraphs to understand/remind myself what i am reading about. Characters are unremarkable (especially Chiara, a typical hollywood rich celebrity type. I was expecting that the writer would focus on a filipino character since the book is about philippines), thus it maynot be easy to have a connection with the character which makes it even harder to read and continue. Sometimes it is not clear whose thought is followed. Stories overlap on each other, that is why it is blurry if one is reading the script of Chiara, or Ludo’s movie or if it is part of the “real” history (magsalin’s). Overall, it is a hard read, however, if you are interested in the american occupation in philippines, please check it out because what happened there must not be forgotten.