![]() ![]() The realistic nature of his story, stumbling over what happened when, looping back and forth in time to pick up dropped threads, contributes to its impact: you could be in a New York bar, lending a sympathetic ear to a self-pitying tale of woe. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. One of the most interesting and controversial encounters Ive made through a book. As it is, the reader becomes trapped inside the mind of a howling paranoid. First he steals the oxygen from you, then he spits it back in your face. Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts. A fiction would have more logic, more shape the wrongs done to Mr Anonymous would be more substantial and his outrage more proportionate. Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases. However, if one chooses to read it as an unfiltered account of real events, the strangely feverish splurge of the narrative makes more sense. One can never know to what extent this first-person account of a broken-hearted advertising creative who once “liked hurting girls” before the tables were turned on him is autobiographical, and there’s a strong argument for it not mattering. The voice of the narrator is the unadulterated male id, speaking what is normally unspoken, and what is below the radar of consciousness. ![]() What I will be detailing below is purely. I just want to put in a disclaimer saying that I know that I am in no way, shape, or form a professional book reviewer who knows 100 what they’re talking about. Fantastic Fathers Day gifts + your chance to WIN SHOP GIFTS Help Centre. The book I am going to review in this post: Diary of an oxygen thief by Anonymous, is, I’ve found, a controversial one. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. ![]() Since the author of this short, anguished novel first self-published it in 2006, it has assumed cult status, with no shortage of readers testifying to its powerful effect. Buy the eBook Diary of an Oxygen Thief, Oxygen Thief Diaries : Book 1 by Anonymous online from Australias leading online eBook store. by Anonymous (Author), NLVI (Editor), None (Illustrator) & 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 8,367. ![]()
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