Reviews with content warning for Emotional abuse - Diary of an Oxygen Thief

I didn’t understand the concept that much. It’s a love-or-hate book. You’re either going to feel inspired by it, or confused. The reason why I decided not to finish this book is because it confused me, and bore me. I wasn’t really interested in reading an autobiography of someone who liked mentally hurting girls, and I saw no poetic way of it or meaning in it. I felt weird reading it.

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Not only is the main narrator the most unlikable character I have ever had the displeasure of reading, the writing itself is awful. The plot meanders aimlessly and jumps around. There are no interesting concepts as everything is very suface level and it is very poorly executed.

The best thing to come out of this is that the illegal online version of this book I was reading would sometimes glitch out meaning I got to skip parts of the book.

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dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

hmm.. weird book. very memorable only because it's like a grotesque car crash that you can't look away from. full of hate for the main character and

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challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

In summary I feel like this book is about a man getting hurt once, choosing to hurt everybody else afterwards and getting off on it even though the reason he got “hurt” the first time was his own fault, and then getting a little taste of his own medicine too. I had a lot of “wtf” moments and a few laughs due to dark humor. Being only 151 pages it’s a super quick read that kept me interested until the end because I wanted to understand the point and know what would happen.

Personally I get drawn into stuff like this because I’m always curious to understand the minds of fucked up people. On the flip side I feel like the more I try to understand troubled characters the more conflicted I feel.

The #1 complaint I see in other reviews is how “horrible the narrator is” I mean yeah… He’s an addict who is also giving sadistic psychopathic narcissist who needs to seek serious help. Why we are giving a book a shitty rating because the MC is shitty is crazy to me because sometimes that’s the literal point of the book. You don’t have to like him and maybe it’s not your thing but the book itself is good. It’s a “diary” of a mad man essentially.

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dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

This book is quite literally one of the most difficult books to get through. The actual writing is awful and there really no point to the story. The main character and author I’m assuming is whiny and annoying throughout the whole book. Honestly almost DNF the writing was so bad. The main character when on many tangents about unimportant information that doesn’t help progress the story.

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