decades ago. Exactly what is Spanglish about them? Despite these unanswered questions and contradictions, I found the book entertaining, especially the author's recounting of his exposure to multicultural New York and his tongue-in-cheek Spanglish translation of Don Quixote, which demonstrates just how clever the bilingual mind can be. You see, I read a description of the book that described it as a serious look at the phenomenon of "Spanglish." It does have that (and it is quite good) - but 2/3 of the book is a Spanglish to English dictionary. While interesting, it was not what I had planned on reading when I had requested it from my local library. I just wanted you perspective buyers to know ahead of time. Also, if you don't have a decent command of Spanish, this book will be pretty hard for you to read. If you have a hard time following the jokes in a George Lopez stand-up routine, you'll have just as hard of a time reading this book because he fills it full of Spanglish. While entertaining to us bilinguals, I wanted warn you before you bought it. Half the book reads like some kind of ranting reciprocal bigotry. The author jumps all over the linguisists at the RAE while revealing a lack of linguistic awareness on his own part. He actually puts forth the assertion that Basques and Catalunyians prefer to speek Euskera and Catalan over Spanish because they felt alienated by Felipe Gonzalez, the late President of Spain. ---Duuhhh!