Diary of an oxygen thief

by Anonymous

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Novels

151 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Books can be attributed to "Anonymous" for several reasons:

* They are officially published under that name
* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author
* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific author

Books whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed to Unknown.

See also: Anonymous

Reviews

[Claire Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Psychologically, a very interesting book for its insights into the manipulative male mind. While I can’t say I’m a fan of his personality or that I agree with his actions, our narrator’s character and voice are aggressively unique and represent an interesting and revenge-fuelled interpretation of love, hatred, obsession, and heartbreak. The narrative voice is the star of this book - entering our protagonist’s perspective captures the reader but the story itself is lacklustre and, in my opinion, is worth the read mostly for the psychoanalysis of the characters and their actions rather than for the plot and writing itself.

[lexi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly…. such a good book. I actually really enjoyed it. I don’t understand how people can take this book so seriously and get upset by the character? It MIGHT be real, it MIGHT be fake but that’s the reality of it, people like this exist. It’s so clever? Real or fake it’s interesting and I had no expectations. I had no clue where this would go and that might be why it was so good.

[Zuzanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unbelievably boring. The main character is nothing but shallow. Tries to be edgy and brutal without any depth. No surprise the author didn't reveal their name - I wouldn't want my name next to this title either. Don't bother reading.

[JMAS · Rating 2 out of 5]

narcissistic mentally ill playboy realizes he’s a loser and needs to get a hold of his life. i didn’t feel sympathetic for him in any way. the psychology was interesting i’ll give it that

[Alexa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually I really enjoyed it. I can see why it bored you but I found it an easy book to read. I think we can all relate to some of the things the obsessive narcissist says, even if we deny it. Of course, i think he’s a sick person and I don’t feel any pity for him, but as a psychology student it was very fun to analyse him. I do recommend this book, but only for people how can stand long prolonging:)

[eri ₊˚⊹ ᰔ · Rating 4 out of 5]

not for everyone but I really enjoyed the insight into this protagonist’s mind - not everyone in the world is pure with good intentions, this just shows you how the other side of the population might be thinking.

[Aubrey Kuzara · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’d rather be skinned and having my organs ripped out alive by BILLIONS of Giant Huntsman Spiders, than be anywhere near this man

[Lee]

(If I could I would give 0 ⭐️)

There is a reason we don’t know who the author of this book is 💀 they knew what they wrote was awful. That first page was the reason I got the book at it was SOOO disappointing at the end. Would love to read a book that follows the plot of the first page

[ellzie]

this was in fact a diary of an oxygen thief because i never wanted someone to steal all the oxygen in the world as much as i wanted when i read this

[Alisha Ahuja · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not to be a hater, but I hated this. I’m sorry.

[Caroline O'Rourke · Rating 1 out of 5]

hated from the bottom of my heart 🫶🫶

[Oriana Persi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring. Horribly written. Took me 5 months to finish this nightmare

[Kiera Garcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book and concept. Not for everyone though.

[Carolina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I saw a lot of negative reviews on this book because of the asshole in the book but I actually enjoyed it. Yeh I couldn't believe how he treated women and, yeh it wasn't right but he wasn't right. And the fact in the end he gets treated the same is even better.

[Braelyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

didn’t like this

[Radclyffe Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok i fucking loved this - maybe it’s cos my taste is so deplorable I was deeply attracted to the narrator

[Claire Tomiko · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wouldn’t want anyone to know I wrote this either.

[Star · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not surprising to me that this book is controversial. It can be uncomfortable to read a misogynist being openly misogynistic. Yet are we confusing our dislike of such people for the dislike of a book? Are they one in the same? And if so, why does this society compel minority authors to almost exclusively publish on their suffering? If it is mistreatment that is so appalling, why do we punish minorities who stray away from the gory details of their oppression and reward them for laying bare their hurt and humiliation for the sake of our voyeurism?*

This book is about a very angry and probably sad alcoholic who takes his pain out on others. It's written from the perspective of the aggressor rather than the victim. As a thought experiment I found it intriguing. It can be uncomfortable at times, I believe in part because we live in a society that believes one should never admit to intentionally causing harm. This goes against our social contract and therefore puts us at unease.

I don't believe being uncomfortable is inherently bad. And again I would ask, if it is, then how does one feel when reading about children forcefully separated from their families, women beaten and raped, nations divided by political unrest, blatant acts of discrimination, abject poverty? I assure you I have felt much more uncomfortable than this. I would ask yourself, if this book is so offensive am I being triggered and if so what other "great" novels are triggering to other populations? Should they then be discredited because of the harm they cause? I don't have the answer but all these questions arise for me. Perhaps if anything I appreciate a book (and the discomfort) that inspires me to investigate such questions within myself.

So is it a good book? I found it in a Little Library and started reading on my walk home. While I can't claim to have thought much about it whenever I set it down, I did generally want to read "just a little more". I cared what happened next and to whom. I was curious if and when there would be plot twists. If I could I'd give it a 3.5. Solidly entertaining, not earth shattering.

*I am reminded of (white) reviews I read on Yaa Gyasi's "Transcendent Kingdom", which complained it didn't live up to the depths of "Homegoing". Is a black author only valuable when extrapolating on the experience of slavery or pain of poverty?

[IMITATOR · Rating 1 out of 5]

everything about this book leaves a bad taste in my mouth and fills me with a bubbling rage, the misogyny and the poor writing that seeps through and permeates the pages (I read this digitally but you get the gist). It feels like the author has no idea what this book is or what they were trying to do with it. I had to skim through 30 pages because it got so boring, repetitive and felt like it was leading no where, it didn't feel like there was a story being told. In the beginning it showed alot of potential, like okay we have this absolutely shitty character but can they be written well, then it absolutely plummeted in quality and writing style. There's this one scene in the book, I don't remember when, but the character references film techniques to describe what's happening in the scene and how they're feeling and I thought that was brillant. Finally it had felt like the story was developing and the author knew what they were doing, making this misogynist piece of shit a film geek (no hate to fellow film geeks except all the misogynist ones, fuck you). But that being incorporated into the writing style was quickly dropped. I know the author was trying to make their character feel meaningless but they did such a shit job at conveying that.

[Nanabah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m gonna just treat this like a tbh bc I have a lot of thoughts I fear. I overall enjoyed the book mainly because it was honestly interesting and somehow satisfying to read this man’s “side of the story.” To follow along with a person who makes you very uncomfortable (as a woman reader) in the beginning to him having a taste of his own medicine is quite insane. Semi-Spoilers coming soon don’t read too far.

When I first started I was very uncomfortable reading about how he enjoyed intentionally hurting women—how he found loopholes holes to hurting people “legally.” I was like sir AHEM. But I keep reading—I learned about how he viewed these individual women (not good btw) and how he had planned to hurt people as a way of expressing his own hurt. BUT there was a tiny bit of foreshadowing about what was to come, that there was a woman “like him” who knows who he is and what he does to others.

So come in badbitchwithamission—he falls in love w this girl who basically plays him for FILTH, and makes an entire project out of their breakup. And I’ll admit—she did not have to do him like that in FRONT OF HER FRIENDS AHAHAHA—but honestly PURRR, he deserved that shit after what I read in the beginning parts of the book.

And he ends it by being like “I wanna publish dis before she does bc I want people to know my side *baby tantrum*” like am I the only one who would LOVE to see this project???

I don’t know I gave it 3 stars bc I thought it was super satisfying to watch this man get put in his place but also for the ending to be like “so yah that’s what she did to me” is sorta eh. But fs good on him for being honest ab how he enjoyed hurting people??? Like I mean public therapy I guess—I hope he learnt his lesson.

[Leah Maxwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

“The ad man who fell on his own poison sword.”
Alcoholic narcissist hurts women to feel better about himself in his 20s, once he heals and goes to AA in his 30s, a girl who he meets and describes as ‘the love of his life’ does the same thing to him, but even better because she’s a woman. KARMA BITCH!!


This was a very interesting psychological read. It’s refreshing to read a book from a protagonist with extremely questionable and reprehensible motivations. I listened to the audiobook and the credits revealed that the voice actor was also the author, so even though it’s anonymous I do know that this was really written by an Irish man.
Theme of the book was clearly karma, even if some of it was deluded, imagined karma for some gender specific slights he feels he was victim to. He hates himself so much that he feels he needs to hurt women for being stupid enough to like him. The ending was poetic justice that’s rough around the corners.

[Matilde Hillers · Rating 1 out of 5]

I Think the Way he writes is interesting, but after I’ve read the hole book I don’t even know what it is about. When I started reading this book I thought it would be about romance, but the girl first came in the book at the third chapter.

I also think that if you want to write a novel on 151 pages you don’t make the bag ground last about 100 pages.

There was nothing funny in this book that you could laugh of, but really many sexually comments which I don’t really understand why the person chose that.

I think if the book was written entirely different then I would maybe be a really good book but yeah no. I am.

[Natacha Andersen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really do not need to hear about his masturbation habits...

There was certain parts of the book that I like. The writing was overall good, but the plot and the structure of the book not so much.

First of all he did an really amazing job at making the book seem ten times longer than it really was. One of the main things bothering me, was that it only had like two chapters or so. One normal chapter and the rest of the book is just one big chapter...

the whole book was just him trying to justify what he did, but he just ended up sounding really pathetic honestly.

[Poiesis · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.8

I have such mixed feelings about this book. The concept was amazing. The idea that whoever is speaking is a terrible person and it’s written like a diary, but I just didn’t enjoy the execution. I was left feeling bored and if I’m honest, I never actually finished the whole book.

I’m going to listen to the audiobook but my brain just won’t focus on the words anymore.

2.8 because the first page is amazing but left disappointment in its wake.

[Haroula · Rating 4 out of 5]

i mean… i certainly didn’t understand it at the beginning and the main character was so unbearable and crude. as it continued and he explained his situation and why he does what he does i didn’t become empathetic but i understood why this book was written. if you want a book that’s hilarious and witty this one’s for you. from an intellectual level this book is terrible, but the wit makes up for it in my opinion.

[Destiny · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hate his point of view on life. He was self centered and thought that being in a relationship was some game. He hurt women for fun but when he finally got a taste of his own medicine he was embarrassed and emotional about it.

[Lux Anne · Rating 2 out of 5]

written in a sleazy and overused male gaze, just makes you feel like shit about yourself with all the references to the female body like it’s this guys property.
Not the worst read ever, but the writing style is lazy

[Malia Garcia · Rating 1 out of 5]

🌟
it was so boring….the whole way through. after reading the book i’ve discovered i just didn’t like the main character and as the book went on i grew to hate them more. booooo tomato tomato!!!!!!

[Youssef Abidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The beginning was so good but at the end it wasn’t that good cuz i got invested and i expected the book as good as the first pages. Still good tho.

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like what do I say, it was just absolutely terrible? And i'm not saying that because of the topic in the book as some may think. It's genuinely just bad.