![]() The first few pages really grip you in with a strong hook but falters. For those who never heard of it, it’s basically a character study on someone who emotionally abuses women that he casually dates. Hurt people hurt people.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographers assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. ![]() I want to start by saying I totally understand why people dislike this book, it isn’t for everyone. 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 just finished Diary of an Oxygen Thief. The "Oxygen Thief" in the title refers to narrator's low self-esteem. Later, he meets a young, aspiring photographer in New York and falls in love with her. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI. Internally he grapples with paranoia, addiction, and a legacy of pain. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel. 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. ![]() After the narrator starts attending AA meetings, he sobers up and looks back on his past relationships with a measure of remorse. It is impossible to know if this book is literally a confessional of someone who then published as fiction, because the author remains unknown. 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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