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 He’s blinded by love. 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. ISBN-13: 9781501157851 Summary Hurt people hurt people. Oxygen is found in the air as O2, and found in the ozone as O3. Oxygen is a very unstable element, which makes it easy to make compounds with other elements creating different kinds of solids and liquids. As it is, the reader becomes trapped inside the mind of a howling paranoid. Oxygen can be found in in metals, water, and even the one thin that protects us from the powerful sunrays. A fiction would have more logic, more shape the wrongs done to Mr Anonymous would be more substantial and his outrage more proportionate. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov ‘Lolita’ is a must-read for all those who liked reading ‘Diary of an Oxygen Thief. However, if one chooses to read it as an unfiltered account of real events, the strangely feverish splurge of the narrative makes more sense. 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. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, you want revenge. The look on their face, first the confusion, then the anger. He purposely gets into relationships with women, gets close to them and once they have fallen in love he tells them that he does not love them. ![]() My logic went as follows: If someone hurts you, then you automatically want revenge. The Diary of an Oxygen Thief is the story of an alcoholic man whom is fueled by the mental and emotional pain of others, specifically women. Since those heady days I heard an adage that seems to apply here: ‘Hurt people hurt people.‘. 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. 25 of the best book quotes from Diary of an Oxygen Thief.
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