The Rosie Project: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DEKLXXQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Deceptively Complex RomCom: A Delight I loved the "The Rosie Project" – at least, right up to the very end. I was captivated by Don’s view of his world and his nearly-astute, yet unknowingly skewed, interpretations of his interactions with others. I’ve known and loved people like Don and was rooting for him from the first. I so enjoyed how Don compartmentalized and tracked every aspect of his life with neat little packets: The Standardized Meal System, The Wife Project, and The Rosie Project. All through the first part of the book,. This story will pull on your heartstrings while you laugh out loud. I am an independent reviewer. This book is the first book in the Don Tillman series and ends in an HEA.Don is a This story will pull on your heartstrings while you laugh out loud. KLV I am an independent reviewer. This book is the first book in the Don Tillman series and ends in an HEA.Don is a 40 year old man with Asberger's syndrome. He decides he is ready for a wife and goes about finding her using scientific methods. I love that this book does not portray Don as having a disease. Even he realizes that he is wired differently from most everyone else. His attempts to find a wife are hysterical. I found myself agreeing with his intent, if not his methods.The reader is introduced into the rel. 0 year old man with Asberger's syndrome. He decides he is ready for a wife and goes about finding her using scientific methods. I love that this book does not portray Don as having a disease. Even he realizes that he is wired differently from most everyone else. His attempts to find a wife are hysterical. I found myself agreeing with his intent, if not his methods.The reader is introduced into the rel. "but his life is organized down to the minute and he doesn't like any disruption or change to his routine" according to Courtney. This book was just okay. The story of geneticist Don Tillman who has Aspbergers. Highly functioning, but his life is organized down to the minute and he doesn't like any disruption or change to his routine. He is however, puzzled as to why he is still unattached. He longs for a wife and goes on a quest to find one. A crazy quest, involving a lengthy questionnaire that no woman could possibly answer to his satisfaction. Don is friends with the womanizing Gene and his long suffering wife, Claudia. They attempt to
So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie - and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper. She will be punctual and logical - most definitely not a b