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Diaries of an oxygen thief3/17/2024 It doesn’t matter how long it takes, you want revenge. Anonymous’ logic consisted of “If someone hurts you, then you automatically want revenge. And I needed her to leave me because she was getting in the way of my drinking.” What can we learn about Anonymous from this specific statement?Ħ. Not that the others did, but she wouldn’t have left me if I hadn’t ripped her apart. In reflecting on his relationship with Penny, Anonymous states, “But she’s the one I regret hurting the most. According to Anonymous, “The more they confided and invested in you, the deeper the shock and the more satisfying the moment at the end.” Given that he has a lot of experience in art, advertisement, and the business realm, can we see any similarities between the advertisement world and his personal life?ĥ. Do you think the author attempted to push all societal boundaries with this book such as in content, language, and marketing?Ĥ. Publisher’s Weekly recently published an article discussing how this book broke the standards of self-publishing works in terms of marketing and overall success. Do you think his language and writing style are typical of what society perceives as a male advertising executive?ģ. Despite current trends, many professions still have a designated stereotype attached to them. Given his country of origin and the overall candidness of many British persons, do you think this contributes to his tendency to be more direct and vulgar in Chapter 1?Ģ. Thank you, Jennifer, for sharing them with LitLovers!ġ. These questions were developed by Jennifer Johnson, Reference Librarian for the Springdale (Arkansas) Public Library. One of the most interesting and controversial encounters I’ve made through a book. It actually makes for a more satisfying experience." ( Excerpted from EV Grief.)įirst he steals the oxygen from you, then he spits it right back in your face. Because we can’t Google anyone we’re forced to make up our own minds about what’s happening in the narrative. "Also writing anonymously allows me to inhabit the reader more effectively. I love that there’s no cheesy photo on the backcover and that we don’t have to hear about how the writer lives in Connecticut or San Francisco or Brooklyn or wherever with his two dogs and a cat. Currently-lives in New York, New York USA.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.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 Cityĭiary 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. 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. 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. After the narrator starts attending AA meetings, he sobers up and looks back on his past relationships with a measure of remorse. 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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