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. 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. The Guardian, London First he steals the oxygen from you, then he spits it back in your face. She by ambition DIARY OF AN OXYGEN THIEF is honest hilarious and heartrending but above all a very real account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us. She by ambition.Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and. Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous, Eduardo Iriarte, 2006, NLVI Publishers edition, in English It looks like youre offline. A fiction would have more logic, more shape the wrongs done to Mr Anonymous would be more substantial and his outrage more proportionate. Product Description Hurt people hurt people.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met inBright Lights, Big City. However, if one chooses to read it as an unfiltered account of real events, the strangely feverish splurge of the narrative makes more sense. Genres Fiction Contemporary Romance Adult Poetry Classics Dark. 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. 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. 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.
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