It’s a fascinating short read (roughly 150 pages) that will weirdly expose parts of you as you read. This book takes you on a journey through a narcissist mind who, in one of three of the book’s parts, has no remorse for his actions. I would recommend this book for adults/mature audiences who are intrigued by people’s dark side. However, she broke people’s hearts for professional, sinister purposes, while he broke hearts because he was broken… He slowly reveals how Aisling emotionally ripped him to pieces and, ironically, how she enjoys breaking people’s hearts, just as he had. The narrator outrightly tells the reader that Aisling will be his karma for the way he treated women, and in particular, the way he treated Penelope. The plot surrounding Aisling is absolutely riveting.
The narrator is in New York on business about a year later when he meets a beautiful, extremely young-looking photography assistant named Aisling. Talk about a moment that literally made me laugh out loud. ‘You know what this’ and ‘You know what that.’ To me, “you know what” should be reserved for something truly surprising. This is where I begin to find myself laughing.Īs he describes his first winter in Minnesota, he catches himself using “Minnesota” slang: “But you know what, I’m trying to stop saying that.
He moves from Dublin, Ireland, to Saint Lacroix, Minnesota, where he takes a prestigious position at an advertising firm and buys a home. After a massive blowout at his birthday party, the narrator finds himself in AA.įast forward five years, the narrator is fully sober from both alcohol and women. He describes his relationship with Penelope and how he drove their relationship into the ground with his low self-esteem and alcoholism. The narrator briefly tells the relationship history of some of the women he has mentally abused, including Penelope. I immediately hated the narrator, who remains unnamed throughout the entire book, and this continued until I found myself cackling at some of the things he says and later empathizing with his experiences. Then the glaze as they tried to hide how much I was hurting them.” Till the big saucer eyes were looking at me. In his words, “I’d wait until they were totally in love with me. Written as an autobiography in the first person, the book opens, and the narrator says, “I liked hurting girls.” He goes on to describe the euphoria he experiences as he goes girl to girl, breaking each of their hearts. If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering, why post anonymously? Well… Walsh is a children’s author, and to say Diary of an Oxygen Thief diverges from that would be an understatement. He goes on to describe the euphoria he experiences as he goes girl to girl, breaking each of their hearts. Written as an autobiography in the first person, the book opens, and the narrator says, I liked hurting girls. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was initially published anonymously but was later found to be written by Vivian Walsh. Walsh is a children’s author, and to say Diary of an Oxygen Thief diverges from that would be an understatement. Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs is about how we love today and how increasingly we try to avoid it altogether.Ībout The Author Anonymous is the New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief, Chameleon in a Candy Store, and Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs.I’m really not sure what influenced me to pick up this book, but I am glad that I did.
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And as you start to wonder whether men and women were ever even meant to be together, a surprise ending brings the trilogy full circle and provides unexpected closure to an issue raised by a certain photographer's assistant in the first book. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you'll want to throw this book at the wall, but you'll also want to know if it can possibly get any more disturbing (it can and it does). You've never seen romance do this before. About the Book The New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief and Chameleon in a Candy Store is back with the spellbinding conclusionto the series.īook Synopsis The New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief and Chameleon in a Candy Store is back with the spellbinding conclusion to the series.