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Graeme Simsion

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Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His education includes a BSc, GDipC and IS from Monash University, an MBA from Deakin University, a PhD from University of Melbourne, an Advanced Diploma of Screenwriting from RMIT, and a 2014 Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, RMIT. His visa mer Ph.D thesis, Data Modeling: Description or Design, was published in 2006. He is a former IT consultant and the author of two nonfiction books on database design. He won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book, The Rosie Project, which was published in 2013. It also won the Australian Book Industry's General Fiction Book of the Year for 2014 and the Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year for 2014. The screenplay for this book has been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2014 the sequel, called The Rosie Effect, made the New York Times bestseller list. His 2016 novel, The Best of Adam Sharp, has been optioned by Vocab Films for a screenplay. He has written numerous award-winning short stories. His most recent short stories include The Life and Times of Greasy Joe, The Big Issue, Like It Was Yesterday, Review of Australian Fiction, and Intervention on the Number 3 Tram, Melbourne Writers Festival. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Critiques that find use of a sort of autistic caricarure in the main role explotative feel relevant in part, but the author does show great skill at weaving a love story around a particular conscious state. The perspective, however incomplete and
simplified of a character that is unable to understand enotion and how he discovers the factors that express love is interesting and revealing of many stereotypes we adopt.

Ultimately an entertaining story plotted around a different type of consciousness, which is a bit too kuch of a fairy tale and can be insensitive to situations where people are living with actual medical conditions that are similar.

I feel despite everything it is a worthwhile read.

… (mer)
 
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yates9 | 548 andra recensioner | Feb 28, 2024 |
KIRKUS REVIEWFirst comes love, then comes marriage, then comesa baby that Don Tillman, lovable genius, has certainly not factored into his current life plan.The Aussie genetics professor who warmed hearts in The Rosie Project (2013) succeeded in snatching ?The World?s Most Beautiful Woman.? But pragmatic Don thinks his situation might be too good to last forever. He?s right. Enter Bud: Baby Under Development. After 10 blissful months of marriage, Rosie announces she?s pregnant, uprooting the carefully balanced life they?ve created in New York. Complicating matters is a secret Don?s keeping from Rosie: A lunch with friends turned disastrous when a new acquaintance, a social worker, diagnosed Don as unfit for fatherhood. This puts Don under a lot of stress, which he tries to combat by learning as much as he can about fetal development. He?s as lovably frustrating as ever, handling this unexpected situation with utmost practicality. Rosie, though, is having none of it. She?s Don?s emotional opposite, dismissing Don?s suggestions and turning fonder of the f-word by the minute. After creating such a successful offbeat relationship in his first book, author Simsion chooses to dismantle it, leaving the quirky lovebirds unable to communicate. Really, it?s Rosie?s fault. She?s become entirely unlikable, failing to see that underneath Don?s unconventional methods is a man who cares. Instead, she finds him ?embarrassing,? and it?s heartbreaking. The impending failure of their relationship feels sudden, most likely due to the book?s many side stories: Gene, Don?s best friend, is in New York after the breakup of his marriage. George, a rock star who lives upstairs, has issues of his own, as does a fellow pregnant couple with financial troubles. While Don tries to solve all these problemsÂ¥exercising his winning analytic voiceÂ¥his marriage is fading into the background, as is readers? support of the Don-Rosie combo. Simsion tries to swiftly mend what?s been broken, but the happily-ever-after is lacking confidence.Don prides himself on meticulous consideration of all scenarios; not even he could?ve imagined that the sparkle of his love story wouldn?t last.Pub Date: Dec. 30th, 2014ISBN: 978-1-4767-6731-4Page count: 304ppPublisher: Simon & SchusterReview Posted Online: Nov. 5th, 2014Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15th, 2014… (mer)
 
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bentstoker | 157 andra recensioner | Jan 26, 2024 |
KIRKUS REVIEWPolished debut fiction, from Australian author Simsion, about a brilliant but emotionally challenged geneticist who develops a questionnaire to screen potential mates but finds love instead. The book won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. ?I became aware of applause. It seemed natural. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. But it was real.? So Don Tillman, our perfectly imperfect narrator and protagonist, tells us. While he makes this observation near the end of the book, it comes as no surprisethis story plays the rom-com card from the first sentence. Don is challenged, almost robotic. He cannot understand social cues, barely feels emotion and can?t stand to be touched. Don?s best friends are Gene and Claudia, psychologists. Gene brought Don as a postdoc to the prestigious university where he is now an associate professor. Gene is a cad, a philanderer who chooses women based on nationalityÂ¥he aims to sleep with a woman from every country. Claudia is tolerant until she?s not. Gene sends Rosie, a graduate student in his department, to Don as a joke, a ringer for the Wife Project. Finding her woefully unsuitable, Don agrees to help the beautiful but fragile Rosie learn the identity of her biological father. Pursuing this Father Project, Rosie and Don collide like particles in an atom smasher: hilarity, dismay and carbonated hormones ensue. The story lurches from one set piece of deadpan nudge-nudge, wink-wink humor to another: We laugh at, and with, Don as he tries to navigate our hopelessly emotional, nonliteral world, learning as he goes. Simsion can plot a story, set a scene, write a sentence, finesse a detail. A pity more popular fiction isn?t this well-written. If you liked Australian author Toni Jordan's Addition (2009), with its math-obsessed, quirky heroine, this book is for you.A sparkling, laugh-out-loud novel.… (mer)
 
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