Anonymous begins seeing a therapist, of who he just wants to engage in sexual activity. Meanwhile he is surviving his job as a commercial marketer where is coworkers drive him absolutely insane. This online method provides him exactly what he wants at not cost. Through his online relationships he meets girls simply for physical reasons and drops them. So he decides to experiment with online dating. But much like his situation in his first book, “Diary of an oxygen thief,” he has no interest in commitment nor settling down. He goes in depth about the extents of their relationship. When the story starts out, he is seeing a french girl he had met when he had first come to the Us, she has been new to the US as well. He talks about his situation as far as alcoholism goes and his 15 years at AA. You warm up to him quickly because of his honestly with you. The anonymous author starts out the story with his familiar sense of sarcasm and no filter. But i enjoyed this book just as much if not more. Usually i'm not as pleased with a sequel to a book. I was pleasantly surprised to be as impressed with the sequel to this book as i was to the prequel. “ I had become that most dangerous of propositions: a beautiful girl with the mind of a man.” With my defenses reduced to rubble around me, I felt it was time to surrender or self-destuct, Or maybe I yearned for the familiarity of unhappiness, choosing self-sabotage over uncertainty, I’d rather fuck it up than not know.” “ She was getting too close to the inner sanctum, She was almost in. When two chameleons successfully take on each other’s hues, there is nothing there.” “ Broken people learn how to keep the peace at the expense of our own needs, We merged into any given situation. ❊❊❊❊❊ Quotes that might convince you to read❊❊❊❊❊ There is more that could be unpacked with the problems but that requires a more literary-tuned person compared to a casual reader. There is something about it could simply be based on his experience with love, in the sense that he barely received it from his parents and also he was sexaully abused as minor by a celergyman, which ultimately manifested in a twisted reasoning behind how relationships should be treated. It really goes to show that our narrator did in fact want it but would end up sabotaging it. What made up for this had been the theme of love. So the timeline for that also felt off as I am assuming he was in his mid thirties when it was written and now he was in forties, essentially I was confused of the span of this book more than I thought I would be. Because it seemed as though this was written during the publication process of Diary of an Oxygen Thief. I felt that it was breaking the fourth wall more than what I had been anticipating. What had been difficult about this book would definitely be the timeline of this book. So it honestly led me to wonder how men outside of America act, more than anything because everything came back to him wanting to be in New York. The experience the narrator had with women spans not only experiences within America but also abroad, along with internalized notions of what he deemed to be ‘americanism’. It was graphic because it felt too real to be considered fiction. If people hated the first book because of graphic nature, then this one definitely took the cake between both works. If anything I felt more played because I could see how it is a continuation but at the same time not. Like it wasn’t good but it wasn’t bad either. Ok, this one is definitely like a 3-3.5/5 book.
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