Finished Mo 3/13/17
This book was given to me by Becky?, one of the members of the Contemporary Book Club.
I had read about how good this book was, and I had a slightly different idea of what the novel would be about. I thought that it would be a strange love story between a man with Asperger's and a barmaid. But, there is so much more to the actual novel. I loved it! Simsion wrote the book as a screenplay and I'm thrilled that it is going to be made into a movie.
The Wife Project- Don Tillman, genetics professor, somewhere on the spectrum of autism or Asperger's, writes a complex questionnaire to find his 'perfect mate'.
The Father Project- Don meets Rosie Jarman, a doctoral student of psychology and barmaid, he learns from her that her mother told her that who she thought was her father was not. Don, being a genetics professor, offers to test the various candidates. Rosie's mother said that she was impregnated at her father's graduation. One member of this class is Rosie's father.
The book is set in Australia and Don and Rosie travel to NYC for a few days in search of Rosie's biological father.
They become friends and Don realizes that he's actually capable of change, and later he finds the ability to express his own version of LOVE.
Many parts of the book are completely hilarious. The scenes of dancing should make a real impression when they appear in the movie. Also, Don's practicing sex using a doctor's skeleton as a partner.
The theme of the novel is that you don't find Love, but Love finds you.
Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant and author of two nonfiction books on database design. At the age of fifty he decided to write fiction and THE ROSIE PROJECT is his first novel.
The author's page at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Simsion
The book at amazon-
https://www.amazon.com/Rosie-Project-Novel-Graeme-Simsion/dp/1476729093
NPR review-
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/03/228508828/the-rosie-project-will-charm-you-with-science
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