The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
Published: 11/04/13
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 329
Oh wow. I don’t know where to begin with this review.
Firstly, lets all take a moment to appreciate the cover.
*appreciate*
Secondly, this has been a book I have been desperate to read since I first heard about it. The plot sounded so unique and the main character seemed to be ridiculously interesting. I was lucky enough to win a copy through the goodreads First Reads section and I pretty much screamed when it dropped through my letterbox. I devoured this in less than a day and wish I could read it all over again.
Meet Don, a man who has never been on a second date after the Apricot Ice Cream Incident. He is a hugely intelligent genetics professor who spends his time meticulously planning every aspect of his life. He has a standardized meal plan, with lobster being served every Tuesday night, he doesn’t like people who smoke and he can’t stand people who are early or late. He likes people to be just on time.
Realising that he wants to spend his life with a woman and, noting his track record, Don decides to initiate The Wife Project. He fears that choosing women at random to date would be a waste of time when ultimately they do not fit the requirements for his wife. Therefore he designs a questionnaire to filter out these unsuitable women, leaving only the suitable ones for him to date.
Then Rosie comes along.
A smoker, non- punctual, completely unsuitable woman for Don, yet he finds himself wanting to spend time with her even though she starts to mess with his precision timings and plans for life.
When Rosie and Don start The Father Project together, they start to see past each others imperfections and Don begins to learn the meaning of the word love.
This is an astonishing book. The main character Don is autistic and we get a rare insight into his beautiful mind. Don is sweet, funny, caring, attractive, smart and lovable I fell for him straight away and continued to love him until the end. As an ex psychology undergrad I picked up on some of the science humour and found it quite easy to understand some of the mild technical language used when describing some of the aspects of the questionnaire and other psychology references which may be slightly difficult to pick up if you don’t have a psychological background However that does not take away a single thing from this fantastic novel.
The main character is SO well developed and I felt I knew him personally. All the other characters around him were equally well developed and loved reading about them all.
It is packed full of laughs and is a pure delight to read. I am in love with this book and think it is possibly one of my favourite books ever.
Graeme has written a fabulous book and everyone should read it!
Utterly superb.
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 329
Oh wow. I don’t know where to begin with this review.
Firstly, lets all take a moment to appreciate the cover.
*appreciate*
Secondly, this has been a book I have been desperate to read since I first heard about it. The plot sounded so unique and the main character seemed to be ridiculously interesting. I was lucky enough to win a copy through the goodreads First Reads section and I pretty much screamed when it dropped through my letterbox. I devoured this in less than a day and wish I could read it all over again.
Meet Don, a man who has never been on a second date after the Apricot Ice Cream Incident. He is a hugely intelligent genetics professor who spends his time meticulously planning every aspect of his life. He has a standardized meal plan, with lobster being served every Tuesday night, he doesn’t like people who smoke and he can’t stand people who are early or late. He likes people to be just on time.
Realising that he wants to spend his life with a woman and, noting his track record, Don decides to initiate The Wife Project. He fears that choosing women at random to date would be a waste of time when ultimately they do not fit the requirements for his wife. Therefore he designs a questionnaire to filter out these unsuitable women, leaving only the suitable ones for him to date.
Then Rosie comes along.
A smoker, non- punctual, completely unsuitable woman for Don, yet he finds himself wanting to spend time with her even though she starts to mess with his precision timings and plans for life.
When Rosie and Don start The Father Project together, they start to see past each others imperfections and Don begins to learn the meaning of the word love.
This is an astonishing book. The main character Don is autistic and we get a rare insight into his beautiful mind. Don is sweet, funny, caring, attractive, smart and lovable I fell for him straight away and continued to love him until the end. As an ex psychology undergrad I picked up on some of the science humour and found it quite easy to understand some of the mild technical language used when describing some of the aspects of the questionnaire and other psychology references which may be slightly difficult to pick up if you don’t have a psychological background However that does not take away a single thing from this fantastic novel.
The main character is SO well developed and I felt I knew him personally. All the other characters around him were equally well developed and loved reading about them all.
It is packed full of laughs and is a pure delight to read. I am in love with this book and think it is possibly one of my favourite books ever.
Graeme has written a fabulous book and everyone should read it!
Utterly superb.
Laura