Imagine Dennis Reynolds, Don Draper, and Holden Caulfield all mixed together.
The main character is very clearly a piece of shit though. book Diary of an Oxygen Thief Quotes 25 of the best book quotes from Diary of an Oxygen Thief 01 Share Since those heady days I heard an adage that seems to apply here: ‘Hurt people hurt people. This might be because I’ve read American Psycho but who knows. However, I didn’t feel as if the book was as depraved as I had been led to believe. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was called a surprise. Throughout though, he proves himself to be an unreliable narrator and the books has its humorous moments.īut this book was hyped up to me as something extremely disturbed and not for the faint of heart. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI. Things pick back up when he meets a woman he genuinely cares about but is very cold / cruel to him. The first few pages really grip you in with a strong hook but falters after the narrator describes his 5th or 6th relationship. For those who never heard of it, it’s basically a character study on someone who emotionally abuses women that he casually dates.
Because of his sense of self-loathing he seems to go through life unworthy of the very air he breathes.ĭiary of an Oxygen Thief quickly became popular from its initial publication in 2006 to 2016 where it was listed on both Amazon and iTunes 20 top selling books.I want to start by saying I totally understand why people dislike this book, it isn’t for everyone. The "Oxygen Thief" in the title refers to narrator's low self-esteem.
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It is written as a script to a movie that Steve is making about part of his life. This book was published in 1999 by Scholastic, with 281 pages. It is a first person narrative, both parts being told from Steve. Later, he meets a young, aspiring photographer in New York and falls in love with her. The book Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a fictional story of a teenage boy, Steve Harmon.
Internally he grapples with paranoia, addiction, and a legacy of pain. After taking a job in the United States, the narrator is confronted externally by the absurdity of corporate America, culture shock, and the conflict of moving from the lower to upper-middle class. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us. After the narrator starts attending AA meetings, he sobers up and looks back on his past relationships with a measure of remorse. Diary of an Oxygen Thief Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis Chapter 1 Summary The narrator talks about how he used to like hurting girls emotionally, specifically about how he watched their eyes, to wait until they were in love with the narrator, and then try to see if he could kill their souls. Purporting to be an autobiography, Diary of an Oxygen Thief begins with the narrator, an Irish advertising executive living in London, describing the pleasure he used to receive from emotionally abusing women. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was called a "surprise dark-horse Williamsburg best seller" by New York Magazine, referring to the independent art, literature, and music scene in Brooklyn, New York. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI.
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