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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 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 The book won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.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. This is cute little romance. I enjoyed the robotic point of view of our main character Don but you just have to take a leap of faith on how everything works out in the end. Don't expect much but a pleasant diversion and you will be happy. I'm curious how people who are sensitive on the autism issue will feel about the book. "Oddly charming" is a great way to describe the narrator. I could not help but hear it in the voice of Doc Martin. But I loved seeing the world through his eyes, and how this story was unfolding. I was a little disappointed with the ending -- not sure how I wanted it to end, but it was not as believable somehow as the rest of the book. Still it was a fun, insightful treatment and I thoroughly enjoyed it as a whole.
It’s cheering to read about, and root for, a romantic hero with a developmental disorder. “The Rosie Project,” Simsion’s debut and a best seller in his native Australia, reminds us that people who are neurologically atypical have many of the same concerns as the rest of us: companionship, ethics, alcohol. The debut novel of Graeme Simsion, an Australian IT consultant turned writer, The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy with sublime character precision and soppy but gratifying genre fulfilment...It's easily as impressive as in an obvious predecessor, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Second, The Rosie Project is extremely funny. The reader is in a privileged position, able to see Don's faux pas when he doesn't, but also has a huge amount of affection for the character, whose dispassionate view of illogical social norms is captured with snort-inducing deadpan accuracy. Warmly recommended. Whether we become what we are through our genes or through our experiences in life is the old chestnut that this debut novelist tackles with refreshing originality, wit and verve...Filled with engaging specificities of character and setting, the professor's struggle to understand the "fundamental, insurmountable problem of who I was" also becomes a poignant universal story about discovering how best to reconcile logic and emotion, head and heart, and connect our lives with others. Ingår i serienIngår i förlagsserienLa Campana (352) Fischer Taschenbuch (19700) La gaja scienza [Longanesi] (1096) Ingår iÄr avkortad iHar som referensvägledning/bredvidläsningsbokHar som kommentar till textenHar som instuderingsbokPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
En riktigt charmig och originell feelgood-roman! Don Tillman är 39 år gammal och ska gifta sig. Han vet bara inte med vem än. Han ser bra ut men har aldrig riktigt passat in i några sociala sammanhang och har svårt att få kontakt med kvinnor. Men som den strukturerade forskare Don är utformar han Projekt fru - ett mycket grundligt frågeformulär - som ska hjälpa honom att hitta den perfekta partnern. Hon får absolut inte röka, dricka, ogilla kött, komma försent eller rubba hans inrutade liv.Rosie Jarman gör allt detta. Hon är även spontan, smart och snygg, jobbar som bartender och vänder upp och ner på hela Dons tillvaro. Eftersom han är professor i genetik kan han hjälpa henne i sökandet efter hennes biologiska pappa. Och ju mer Don engagerar sig i Rosies jakt, desto mer börjar han släppa på sina strikta rutiner. Hon drar ut honom ur hans trygga men trista tillvaro och han börjar förstå att man inte kan hitta kärleken med hjälp av vetenskapliga tester.Projekt Rosie är en charmig romantisk komedi, en annorlunda och tänkvärd feel good-roman som visar att alla kan möta kärleken, hur udda man än är. En av de knäppaste och mest bedårande romaner jag läst. Den liknar ingenting annat och är skriven med spänst och bra tajming. Jag älskade Projekt Rosie. Den bjuder på underhållande läsning från början till slut, är eftertänksam och rolig, väldigt annorlunda och ytterst charmig. En briljant debutroman från en mogen och skicklig författare. New Zealand Herald on Sunday [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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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.
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