I mean, doesn’t that sound just a little bit entitled and misogynistic? Plus, he says stuff like this: Tillman seems to believe that he is an “ideal mate” for any woman, given his intelligence, physical health, financial success, and social status. Simsion pushes the socially-awkward-adult-male-nerd angle very hard, to the point where it started to evoke for me a salivating, entitled, MRA/incel keyboard-hero fucknuckle. Tillman doesn’t fit in particularly well anywhere, really – there’s a lot of very heavy-handed hints that he has undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome (*note: that term has since been replaced by more appropriate descriptors, but it’s the one that’s used throughout The Rosie Project, so it’s what I’ll use in this review.) That in and of itself would be fine, but there’s something about his character that makes me feel… well, icky. He’s never had much “luck” with women, which will come as no surprise when I tell you that his proposed solution to that problem is to create a questionnaire to assess the suitability of each “potential mate”. The main character is a genetics professor, Don Tillman. (And if you want to support this project, you can make a purchase through an affiliate link on this page – I’ll earn a small commission for referring you)
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