He’s an alcoholic who discovers that he loves emotionally abusing women but, as the story progresses, he eventually meets his match. The cover quote from John Scalzi says Buckell is stretching the horizons of science fiction. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is written as an actual diary by, as you can see above, Anonymous. A recorded message from an old friend stirs Roo out of retirement: "If you're getting this message from me, it means I'm dead." As the storms close in, Roo sets out for justice and gets drawn into a conspiracy of the super-rich that could have drastic consequences for the world. 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. The story then jumps to the wonderfully enigmatic Rasta, Roo Jones, a former spy seeing out his retirement in a Caribbean transformed by rising sea levels and global warming-fed intensified hurricane seasons. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographers assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City.
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This novel is a work of fiction, although the author does try to confuse the audience in this respect, as both the author and narrator are unnamed. Listen to Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Simon & Schuster Audio with a free trial.nListen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was published anonymously in 2006. The New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief and Chameleon in a Candy Store is back with the spellbinding conclusion to the series. The story opens with an incident of apparent industrial espionage gone wrong, and a chase scene that would comfortably grace any James Bond film. 1-Page Summary of Oxygen Overall Summary. S ome novels read as if they were written for the movies and, even if that's not true of Tobias Buckell's Hurricane Fever, this is certainly a book written by an author with an eye for the dramatically visual.
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