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Who wrote diary of an oxygen thief3/28/2024 ![]() Maybe the reader is just another of these relationships. It’s a story about a protagonist who takes pleasure in drawing people into false relationships just for them to get attached so he can derive some pleasure from the pain of him leaving them without notice. I’d sooner throw myself into a ball pit full of used needles than read this dreck again. Maybe the author knew the type of response it would get and decided to dodge criticism or targeted hate by not attaching their name to it. The book is written anonymously and in the first person, which would indicate that the story is true. If so, I’m sorry to be playing into their hands. Maybe this is the type of review the writer was trying to get out of people when they wrote it. ![]() I have to wonder if this is the point of it all. What ever will we do? If this is the climax of your story, just post it on Tumblr next time. But he actually just gets a little bit embarrassed. ![]() Like he finally got a taste of his own medicine and maybe by the end, you’ll appreciate the cruel irony of the situation. The author plays it up as if he’s the biggest victim of the story. The ending is dull, uninteresting, and masturbatory. The main character even leaves his home country, in essence avoiding all consequence. But in a book with a sole narrator, we never see that aspect. The people around them are effected by their decisions and see the consequences of their actions. And Don Draper and characters like him (Bojack Horseman also comes to mind) are only meant to be sympathetic to a degree. His horrid nature is comedic, it isn’t meant to garner sympathy. But those characters don’t exactly line up. One Reddit user calls the unnamed narrator “Dennis Reynolds, Don Draper, and Holden Caulfield all mixed together”. You’re led to believe that he’ll be redeemed by the end. The first line has you prepared to read the guilty conscience of a man who enjoyed hurting women, emotionally torturing them out boredom. But he manipulates to his heart’s content. ![]() He doesn’t abuse in a direct way, making a point to say that he never struck a woman. The narrator will describe a particularly cruel encounter. His male relationships are sparsely mentioned at all. The opening details the narrator’s bad treatment of the people around him, women primarily. He’ll blame the alcoholism or his upbringing, but in such a throwaway, nonchalant, self aggrandizing way that he does not win the sympathy like J.D. That should make him wiser, more sympathetic. That is not true of the Oxygen Thief, who is at every point older than Holden is. You gradually learn about his character in a natural way, even pitying him by the end. Holden is young, lost, disillusioned, but you understand him to a degree. The narrator in Diary of an Oxygen Thief is no Holden Caulfield. I adore Catcher in the Rye and often consider it one of my favorite books. But I feel so strongly in opposition to that. This book has been called Catcher in the Rye for the modern era. I’ve don’t know that I’ve ever hated a book more…ĭiary of an Oxygen Thief is an exercise in how long you can read on before throwing your hands up in defeat of the completely miserable, unforgivably foul protagonist. ![]()
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