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. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was initially published anonymously but was later found to be written by Vivian Walsh. I’m really not sure what influenced me to pick up this book, but I am glad that I did.
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