the above named are much more important than Babe Ruth ,Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron or Mickey Mantle and I am a big baseball fan

LOL. Good one goulet. It would be awesome if reading was promoted as much as baseball in DR. But it's always more fun to seek the easy way out of poverty.

A shame that foreigners come on here and talk so much crap and have no idea what they are talking about. Dominicans are not a society of sports crazed dummys who only know about baseball. Your comments offend me and proves further that americans dont know anything about any country except from what they see on t.v and hear say. Because thats all the information they need,....its always a much easier way out of the libary.

MM you have probably recently been made aware of Mr. Diaz and I would venture you have no idea of the contents of his book or it would be an extreme long shot that you would have read it....so I doubt you can realize the impact it will have on future generations of Dominicans....so stay in the Dark and curse the Light.....also you should go back to the LIBARY you spoke about and learn your own history

goulet how dare you make those comments. You are implying that dominicans don't know how to read and that its all about sports! Take a look around you and realize that the united states has high illeteracy rate and you just proved how ignorant americans are. If you put two teenagers to debate one from us and one from DR, the dominican would kick his butt. Please get a life and read a book.

Colonial oh so so sorry I did not know you had literary heroes like William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, John Steinbeck, Sam Shepard, Norman Mailer,in the DR sorry how could I be so wrong to think Pelota is over emphasized ..here Well we will just have to return all those Nobels and Pulitzers...................what are you NUTS...this has nothing to do with a comparison to anything..this is setting an example ....with something other than steroid using athletes .....thank you very much....yes to many Dominicans dont know how to read and think it is all about baseball and reggaetton ....I did take a good look around me I have lived in the DR a long time

You are an insulting individual and I feel sorry for you. Illeteracy is everywhere did you know that huh. and sweetheart if you lived in DR for so long you would know that reggaeton is NOT Dominican its came from PR. You just once again proved how ignorant you are. Get a life.
From a very proud chula Dominicana.

The Boricuas invented it but it has become the music of all Latino youth from Tierra del Fuego to El Alto and beyond...I personally dont get it but I am a geezer....yes chula I also lived in PR....Good luck to you my dear we dont want to see you coming back hear wearing those shiny pulsaras or your boyfriend wearing them either...good luck in your new country

HAHAHHAHHAA!! First of all, you do not need to wish me good luck in my new country because I have been living in the US since I was 6 years old. I have a graduate degree and a professional career. I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful children, ok. Living the american dream with a big dominican heart. And when I do go to vacation in DR its to the top resorts and I pay for my relatives to stay and enjoy the resort life with me. So your last comment AGAIN shows how ignorant you are!! No good luck to you and learn how to spell before you start commenting on the education of another.

Agressive one you still dont get it...you came to Gringolandia when you were 6 with Mommy and Daddy....I came to the USA when I was 18 alone on the hound from Canada.... I do know and understand the immigrant experience ....I have lived yes lived in 6 different countries and I am planning to live in one more that I have my eye on....I am a granfather and have adopted two beautiful children here In the DR.....now if you think Dominicans are better educated and are not baseball obsessed you are welcome to your opinion I doubt you will find many who share it....grad school or otherwise and please enjoy your vacation at the new Four Seasons or the Ritz Carelton next time you visit...I will be on one of their courses hitting the old ball...My original comment you have obviously totally misunderstood

..this guy should get a parade when he comes to Santo Domingo....let the youth of this island know where the priorities of life are.........education ....education education......kudos for this ....the Don Quixote of dominican/american literature let us hope it inspires some of our students to write and all of our students to read books....this for me is better than 70 homeruns..http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....ominican-author-to-win-a-Pulitzer

so colonial I ask you the question in terms of national pride what is better Sammys homeruns or Mr Diaz and his Pulitzer ????? for me the answer is very simple

and for me too. You can't compare apples and oranges you just know they are both good fruits!

"it puts the “reader into contact with another human, another nervous system, another imagination.”

Hey, look at the bright side- you are fulfilling the author's admonition about reading, if only on the blog level.

I think she would rather play baseball but not on steroids ....please...or with a corked bat http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7458557.stm colonial dont you think these kids would be better off learning to read and write .....is this how you see the young people of your country.....and you say to me HOW DARE YOU .....Yes colonial I dare.....these kids are wasting their time and their lives.....and you of all people should know better....you claim to have an education .....what say you ? "goulet how dare you make those comments. You are implying that dominicans don't know how to read and that its all about sports! "

What the heck are you talking about. You are the one saying that dominicans are baseball obsessed and Im the one saying that its not all about baseball, dominicans are multi-talented(do some research and you'll be amazed on all the accomplishments). Seriously you are annoying me. You are confused and no I don't even like baseball and can't stand to watch it so go ahead and say something sarcastic about that. Like I said before....get a life and by the way since you seem to live country to country it sounds like you're a fleeing felon.... I represent them, just in case.

yes Iam talking about most Dominicans they dont know how to read and are baseball obsessed and if I was under arraignment you would be the last attorney I would call based on your feeble argument in this case....stick to slip and fall cases or you may be disbarred for impersonating a lawyer....you keep beating the same dead horse hoping I will settle....Wrong again

Also colonial judging by the planeloads of losers who are being returned in custody I hope you got their money up front