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Don Tillman #1-2

Het Rosie project & Het Rosie effect

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Het Rosie Project
De autistische Don Tillman is superintelligent, kan geweldig koken en is op zoek naar een vrouw. Door zijn sociale onhandigheid is hij echter nooit verder gekomen dan een eerste date. Dan komt Rosie Jarman in zijn leven: verre van perfect, maar wel intelligent en mooi. En ze is ook op zoek naar haar biologische vader - een zoektocht waarbij Don haar misschien zou kunnen helpen.

Het Rosie Effect
Rosie en Don zetten hun leven voort in New York. Maar Dons oude zwakheden komen weer boven en brengen hem opnieuw in de problemen. Hij verliest zijn emoties totaal uit het oog en dreigt Rosie kwijt te raken op het moment dat ze hem het hardste nodig heeft.

761 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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About the author

Graeme Simsion

39 books5,947 followers
Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant and the author of two nonfiction books on database design who decided, at the age of fifty, to turn his hand to fiction. His first novel, The Rosie Project, was published in 2013 and translation rights have been sold in forty languages. Movie rights have been optioned to Sony Pictures. The sequels, The Rosie Effect, and The Rosie Result, were also bestsellers, with total sales of the series in excess of five million.
Graeme's third novel was The Best of Adam Sharp, a story of a love affair re-kindled - and its consequences. Movie rights have been optioned by Vocab Films / New Sparta Films with Toni Collette attached to direct.
Creative Differences was originally created as an 'Audible Original' audiobook, but is now in print with a collection of short stories from across Graeme's career.
Two Steps Forward is a story of renewal set on the Camino de Santiago, written with his wife, Anne Buist, whose own books include Medea's Curse, Dangerous to Know and This I would Kill for, The Long Shadow and Locked Ward. Movie rights were optioned by Fox Searchlight. A sequel, Two Steps Onward, was published in 2021.
Graeme is a frequent presenter of seminars on writing. The Novel Project is his practical, step by step approach to writing a novel or memoir.

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22 reviews
June 4, 2025
Erg vermakelijk en makkelijk te lezen boek met een creatieve invalshoek
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16 reviews
July 8, 2018
great books, read both super fast... extremely entertaining read!
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Author 94 books135 followers
April 16, 2022
I read and reviewed both of these books separately, so this is basically for my own records. Both books got three stars from me, so it was easy to rate the box set. They're fun romance stories, and Don has an amusing voice, although all the humour comes from a thought process that he doesn't find funny at all. Don isn't neurotypical, and his attempts to navigate the world around him, to fall in love and have children, are complicated by the fact that he finds it difficult to communicate effectively, and to empathise, with people who are. That said, he's still a genuinely good person, so I want to see him succeed... although, as I commented in both individual reviews, it does feel as though I'm expected to laugh at him, instead of with him, which is less rewarding.
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June 7, 2025
The Rosie Project is a fun and nerdy love story. Don's thoughts make you reconsider the strangeness of our everyday life and social interactions.
In the second book, the Rosie effect, we meet them in a worthy sequel. New setting, mostly the same cast, and good story. one star off, because at the end, a large number of loose ends get tied up, in what feels like a bit too sudden and forced course of events. otherwise, a good read!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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32 reviews6 followers
March 11, 2019
These books are a great insight into life with an academic with OCD or who is on the spectrum. Some great humourous and light hearted sections that make it good reading. Sometimes a bit hard to continue due to the obsessive behaviour but overall enjoyable.
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16 reviews1 follower
March 20, 2018
2 boeken in 1.

Waar het Rosie Project super vlot wegleest (korte hoofdstukken) en een heerlijk verhaal is, is het Rosie Effect wat langdradiger en leest het minder vlot weg.
31 reviews
February 2, 2020
zalig. weet niet of het herkenbaar is voor (sommige) mensen met autismespectrumstoornis, maar het voelt echt.
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2 reviews
March 11, 2020
Leest als een trein. Een kijkje in het (al dan niet) briljante brein van Don Tillman zorgt voor hilariteit alom.
28 reviews
May 8, 2020
I absolutely loved this heartfelt, deeply human, achingly funny read.
15 reviews
May 10, 2020
Enjoyable reads that were easy to consume, but still felt they had substance. A welcome break.
20 reviews
June 8, 2020
Easy to read and easy to fall in love with the character of Don Tillman.
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June 21, 2021
I loved this funny series and I learned some things too!
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April 14, 2022
Kreeg deze duologie van Phara en zij zei al dat het geweldig was en duhhh obv was het da ook, i frk lovedddd to read this, was echt fkn mooiiiii op vakantie gelezen yeah i fell in love
90 reviews
June 12, 2019
Don Tillman is een super intelligente geneticus die het moeilijk heeft om sociaal contacten te onderhouden. Tijdens zijn onderzoek om de perfecte vrouw te vinden, komt hij Rosie tegen. Een vrouw dat allesbehalve perfect is, maar wel mooi en intelligent. En ze is ook opzoek naar haar biologische vader, waarmee Don haar wel kan helpen.

Deze 2 boeken hebben een fantastisch inzicht in autisme als een fictief verhaal. Ik heb veel geleerd over verschillende onderwerpen en over hoe liefde tussen een neurotypische en een niet neurotypische ook kan lukken.

**spoiler the Rosie effect

Rosie en Don's zijn getrouwd en wonen samen in New York. Don's natuurlijke aard komt vaker naar boven en brengt hem in problemen. Zijn emoties geraken in de war en door slechte beslissingen te nemen raakt hij Rosie nog kwijt.
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