![]() ![]() I carried the guilt of my crimes around with me for years after I stopped drinking. I've been punished, so it's okay to talk about it all. Balance has been restored The same thing happened to me, only worse. Then the glaze as they tried to hide how much I was hurting them. Till the big saucer eyes were looking at me. I'd wait until they were totally in love with me. I didn't care how long it took either because I was in no hurry. It's like when you hear serial killers say they feel no regret, no remorse for all the people they killed. I dont mean to offend Dostoevsky by comparing this book to his works, but I couldnt help but notice the parallels in the characters.Mentally not physically, I never hit a girl in my life. I do appreciate how the situation as a whole transformed the way he behaves in a relationship. The way I see it and based on his dating history at the start of the book, Karma caught up to him. ![]() He was grasping at straws of her attention and convincing himself that she felt the same way, which i think is part of his egotistical sense of grandeur about himself. He deluded himself into believing there was a relationship when there really wasn’t. He’s definitely pathetic for being a 30-something year old man and finding what Aisling did to be humiliating. ![]() However, I will say that the character in Diary of an Oxygen Thief contrasts at the end of the novel by not playing into his own embarrassment/shame as some of Dostoevsky’s characters often do. Their greatest fear is to be truly seen and/or humiliated in the public eye. They all share a distinct paranoia, delusion, sense of superiority and excessive concern for how other people perceive them. Many people found it underwhelming, to an extent I agree with them, this wasnt what I thought the book would be about.Īs far as the main character of this book, he kind of reminded of the characters/narrators from Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground and the Double. Hey, late reply lol but I just finished reading it and Id love to share my thoughts on it. Example: Hello.Įxplanation of our link flairs Join our /r/bookclub Don't forget /new! Filter by Flair AMA Weekly Thread Mod PostĪma Check out this week's Thread Calendar
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