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. Remember Chuck Klosterman’s definition of a villain If not, here’s a quick reminder: the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least. 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. 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. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a very powerful novel, deliberating realistic occasions of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us. As it is, the reader becomes trapped inside the mind of a howling paranoid. A fiction would have more logic, more shape the wrongs done to Mr Anonymous would be more substantial and his outrage more proportionate. The suspense of this book is so undoubted that it will produce eager inside readers to get their hands on it and horrified to read it. However, if one chooses to read it as an unfiltered account of real events, the strangely feverish splurge of the narrative makes more sense. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a novel which everyone should read, there is no age group criteria. ![]() 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 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. S ince 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. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI.
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