![]() I personally don’t think a person like that just magically changes their ways. I think him bringing up he was an alcoholic and was going to Alcoholic Anonymous meetings was his way of getting readers to feel sympathy.Īfter hearing him graphically talk about the way he would get women to fall for him, then discard them I immediately could not sympathize with him. He explains that he was an alcoholic and believes it might be a connection to why he acted so horribly to women. I did think he sounded rather witty, although again, he sounded like a jerk who deserves what he got. As if I was reading his diary or something.Īnother thing I did enjoy about the book was his humor. I loved this because it made it sound raw. Often, he brings up how he hopes the book will be published. The way he writes is directly to the audience, and he makes it feel like he is sitting with you having a conversation about his life. I do like the way he approached his writing. I did not think he was as “dark” the more I read his words. When you read the first few pages, you expect to hear about this heartless sociopathic man. He mentioned that she was playing games with him, but if I recall correctly, he used to play games with women himself. He also whined about how a beautiful Irish girl he fell in love with treated him poorly. He complained about his job and his house when he moved to America. I may admire his honesty however, he did sound whiny throughout the book. Not everyone would admit to getting women to fall in love with them, and quickly discarding them just to enjoy the pain they have put them through. ![]() Although, he sounds like a jerk, I admire his honesty. The dark themes do hit close to home if you have ever experienced someone hurting you the way that this anonymous author explains he did. This book is a Dutch memoir that was published in 2006. He explains on the first page of the book that he got off on emotionally hurting them, and he compares himself to a serial killer who feels no remorse. It’s written anonymously about an Irish man who bluntly writes about how he used to like hurting women. It was far from what I thought it would be about. I was surprised when I read the first page and found out that it wasn’t. The narrator also admits that he experiences bouts of paranoia, further problematizing the relative truth of his narrative.When I first picked up “Diary of an Oxygen Thief”, I thought it would be a book of poetry. It is also easy to believe that the narrator has blown his so-called relationship with Aisling way out of proportion, and that the reason she acts so cruelly towards him is because he is a creepy older guy who becomes obsessed with her. As such, the audience is disinclined to believe some of his suppositions about how deeply he hurt these women, especially when the narrator himself sometimes slips up and admits that this may not be the case. He believes he is the most important person and thinks that other people believe this as well. Similarly, he is also incredibly narcissistic and believes that the world revolves around him. The narrator does not seem to be trustworthy, mostly due to his apathy towards other people. While this retrospection allows the narrator to reflect on various aspects of both his behavior and his relationships, it also is partially responsible for the disbelief the audience feels towards the narrative. The narrator’s writing of the novel takes place eight years after his entry into AA and about two years after his alleged relationship with Aisling has been terminated. The novel is told retrospectively, as the narrator looks back at his actions after he has been hurt. He writes this book in the hopes that it will be published before her photos, to palliate the humiliation he feels. The narrator realizes that she hates him. At the end of their so-called relationship, she takes him to a bar and has a male friend humiliate him and try to get into a fight with the narrator, which she photographs. He believes she is toying with his emotions and using him as the tragic subject of her art, a book of photographs. Once in New York, and still at the job that he hates, he begins to pursue her shamelessly, and she treats him very coldly. He claims she convinces him to move to New York, although there doesn’t seem to be any evidence to support this. After they have sex, he falls in love with her, although she seems lukewarm at best towards him. He starts looking for a way out on one business trip to New York, he meets Aisling, a beautiful, young photographer’s assistant. He buys a house there and ends up getting stuck, realizing that he hates this job, as well as Midwesterners. He works on improving his career, eventually moving to Saint Lacroix, Minnesota to do so. The narrator enters into AA, finds a stable job as an advertising executive, and stays away from women for five years.
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