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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Rosie Project: A Novel (originale 2013; edizione 2013)di Graeme Simsion
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. 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 The book won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.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.
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. Appartiene alle SerieAppartiene alle Collane EditorialiLa Campana (352) Fischer Taschenbuch (19700) La gaja scienza [Longanesi] (1096) È contenuto inÈ riassunto inHa come guida di riferimento/manualeHa come commento al testoHa come guida per lo studentePremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Mi chiamo Don Tillman, ho trentanove anni e sono un professore di genetica presso l'Università di Melbourne. Ho una posizione ben retribuita, seguo un'alimentazione strutturata e regolare, ho molta cura del mio fisico. Nel regno animale, non avrei alcuna difficoltà a trovare una compagna e a riprodurmi. Perciò, il motivo per cui sono ancora scapolo mi è oscuro. Tuttavia ho fatto una scoperta incredibile: statisticamente, gli uomini sposati sono in media più felici... e vivono più a lungo! Per questo ho dato vita a un progetto: il Progetto Moglie... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche
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Enter Rosie. She probably would score about 0% on this questionnaire. She's impulsive and chaotic where Don is organised and predictable. This is their story. This book is clever, funny, poignant, endearing and original. Read it. ( )