And in all honesty, with the prevalence of online dating, how many of us have a friend who we know is addicted to it? It's rampant, therefore this book is rather timely. I think the world of online dating was an interesting subject for "Anonymous" to submerge his addictive nature in for this book. I have to admit, I enjoy the author's asshole-ish ways. Perhaps not as good as Oxygen Thief, but still up to par with my expectations. That's why the author, frustrated cause he may have found the "one" but doesn't exactly know how to feel, decides to create a female alter ego on a dating site, who will help him to sell his books.Ĭause after all, love is like selling products, and that's why between the pages of the author's adventures we'll find paragraphs about his advertisements ideas.Ĭhameleon in a candy store is one of that books that keeps you hooked up to the pages not only for the story itself but for the language used, which combines melancholy and sarcasm to guide us in a world where it gets harder and harder to breathe "clean air", cause after reading both of the author's book you'll understand that after all we are all just oxygen thieves. And when fulfilling our desires isn't enough anymore we want to become the object of other's desire. We want to prove that we're worth the attentions of everyone in the world. What do we exactly look for when we scroll through the millions of people who'd like to chat with us? Company? Lust? Love? Attention. With no empathy Anonymous shows us not only the cruel reality of online dating but also a sad truth about ourselves. Chameleon in a candy store ascends with grace from hell, as it's dark, heavy, rough. In a world where anyone hardly ever picks a book here's your chance do to it. He's basically just showing you how he wrote and sold his first book and it will just make you regret reading that one too. You don't know where the book goes or what happens to the only other important character. The book ends as if the guy just got bored and had nothing else to rant about. Most of the time i had no idea what was going on, as he explained nothing and provided no context. This book is an insult to literature and authors everywhere who have worked so hard.Īnd to make it worse, there are so many typos it looks like he did not even proof read it. It makes me wish I never bought it because from reading the book, the guy obviously is manipulating. Finally, the author goes on to talk about how he wrote Diary of an Oxygen Thief and used an online dating website posing as a female to sell his book. He lists each woman's name, degrades them to a sexual object, finds something wrong with them and then moves on to the next. Slight spoiler (although nothing great happens in this book to spoil anywhere, there is absolutely no plot), the author rants the entire book about how he is old and does not want to settle down due to obvious personal issues. However, Chameleon on a Kaleidoscope is so bad I'm actually angry that I wasted my time. It was different, dark, honest and intriguing to see how this guy's head worked. Scott Fitzgerald for the iPad generation' Richard Nash, author of What is the Business of Literature? Visit 02thief.I read Diary of an Oxygen Thief because I saw the first page posted on social media and it looked interesting. One of the most interesting and controversial encounters I've made through a book' Lorenzo DeRita, editor in chief, COLORS magazine 'A dark-horse Williamsburg bestseller' Jonas Kyle, Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers 'F. I loved it!' Junot Diaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 'First he steals the oxygen from you, then he spits it right back in your face. 'Kinky, artsy, and swoon-worthy' New York Magazine 'The author does a great job. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City.
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