![]() I thought if I hurt her enough, she would want revenge… And while I flattered myself that she’d seek revenge, I didn’t realize that leaving me to stew in my own paranoid juices was revenge enough.” Is his logic flawed? If so, how?ħ. 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.i wanted another humbert humbert (shame on whoever it was who compared this book to lolita in the synopsis).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. Yeah, i just expected something a little different. ![]() Infuriating, considering i read 140 slow and excruciating pages to get to this point just to be disappointed like every girl the narrator fooled back in his prime time. it didn't have any impact, wasn't surprising, wasn't brutal at all (which is what i'd desperately hoped for). i didn't pity the narrator and i also didn't understand what her strategy was supposed to be. The thing we've been waiting for since page one. Halfway through, this turned into some sort of self-pitying self-help book written by a touch-deprived middle-aged man. I was intrigued, because i'm a fan of all things dark, disgusting, disturbing, mental.Īnd the first third was quite good, actually - funny (the narrator taking the "pith" out of someone's "lithsp" was probably the funniest thing i've read in a book ever) and cynical the reader absolutely appalled by the narrator and yet being met with smart and relatable quotes, self-aware, realistic observations about life and the relationships we choose to fill it with.īut all of that sort of got lost as the story progressed: the narrator becoming an emblem in AA (alcoholics anonymous), getting a good job, fretting about the future, describing his boring and mid-life-crisis way of living, and tiring everyday life.
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