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A review by secre
The Empathy Problem by Gavin Extence
4.0
This is nothing like I thought it would be and yet I really enjoyed it. Gabriel as a character should be fairly detestable and yet somehow I actually found him quite engaging. A man at the top of his game, multi millionaire hedge fund banker; has no empathy for anyone other than himself. Gets diagnosed with a brain tumour; has six months to live, no cure.
Brain tumour creates emotional liability or lability if you want to get technical; Gabriel starts crying at the drop of a hat and falls for a musician. It goes from bad to worse and he creates an entire new world for himself that he thinks she wouldn't despise. But somewhere along the lines he gains a conscience and the two versions of himself become strangely merged.
Split between high life banking and Occupy protestors, this strikes a strange balance between being funny and serious, flippant and touching. It is nothing like I had expended but it was well worth the read and one I would happily recommend. It's not about the 99% by and large but is still highly empathisable with which is strange but agreeable.
Brain tumour creates emotional liability or lability if you want to get technical; Gabriel starts crying at the drop of a hat and falls for a musician. It goes from bad to worse and he creates an entire new world for himself that he thinks she wouldn't despise. But somewhere along the lines he gains a conscience and the two versions of himself become strangely merged.
Split between high life banking and Occupy protestors, this strikes a strange balance between being funny and serious, flippant and touching. It is nothing like I had expended but it was well worth the read and one I would happily recommend. It's not about the 99% by and large but is still highly empathisable with which is strange but agreeable.