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. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wanta husband, a house, a successful career. As it is, the reader becomes trapped inside the mind of a howling paranoid. Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous review the cult tale of a misogynist’s ruin Naturalistic in style, possibly based on real events, this word-of-mouth hit about a man who hurts one woman. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. A fiction would have more logic, more shape the wrongs done to Mr Anonymous would be more substantial and his outrage more proportionate. Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous Romance (2006) 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 in Bright 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. The city of New York had not yet truly become bombarded by the marketing schemes that social media has made a part of our everyday existence. 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. In 2006, the anonymous author (though many a passerby has bought his book from the man himself in SoHo) responsible for Diary of an Oxygen Thief was still marooned in Europe. 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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