The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)

No cover — Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) (2013)

English language

Published July 29, 2013

ISBN:: 978-1-4767-2908-4

(1 review)

The Rosie Project is a 2013 Australian novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion. The novel centers on genetics professor Don Tillman, who struggles to have a serious relationship with women. With a friend's help, he devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners. His plans are set off course when he meets Rosie, who does not fit many of Tillman's criteria, but becomes a big part of his life. The work was first published on 30 January 2013 in Australia by Text Publishing and the rights have since been sold in over 40 other countries. International sales are in excess of 3.5 million copies and the book was named Book of the Year for 2014 by the Australian Book Industry Association. In the United States the novel was published through Simon & Schuster and in the United Kingdom through Penguin Books. A sequel, titled The Rosie Effect, was …

The Rosie Project is a 2013 Australian novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion. The novel centers on genetics professor Don Tillman, who struggles to have a serious relationship with women. With a friend's help, he devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners. His plans are set off course when he meets Rosie, who does not fit many of Tillman's criteria, but becomes a big part of his life. The work was first published on 30 January 2013 in Australia by Text Publishing and the rights have since been sold in over 40 other countries. International sales are in excess of 3.5 million copies and the book was named Book of the Year for 2014 by the Australian Book Industry Association. In the United States the novel was published through Simon & Schuster and in the United Kingdom through Penguin Books. A sequel, titled The Rosie Effect, was released in 2014, followed in 2019 by the third and final book in the trilogy, The Rosie Result.

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5 stars

Read back in April, some as an ebook and the rest as audio. The latter is highly recommended - Dan O'Grady has the perfect deadpan delivery and Australian accent.

Don Tillman doesn't know (or acknowledge) that he has Asperger's. The humor from this romantic comedy doesn't come from that directly, but more from the situations and how people around him deal with him. Into his rigidly constrained life comes the (cliched) Rosie, "the world's most incompatible woman... late, vegetarian, disorganized, irrational".

I enjoyed the humor and found the story clever. While the situation started out a cliche, all the characters were interesting and most grew through the novel. Especially Don, who found love and acceptance, even if he still didn't acknowledge his own limitations. His view of Asperger's as a potential bonus reflects another novel I read recently, [b:The Speed of Dark|96063|The Speed of Dark|Elizabeth Moon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320497793s/96063.jpg|1128271]. I think Don puts …

Read back in April, some as an ebook and the rest as audio. The latter is highly recommended - Dan O'Grady has the perfect deadpan delivery and Australian accent.

Don Tillman doesn't know (or acknowledge) that he has Asperger's. The humor from this romantic comedy doesn't come from that directly, but more from the situations and how people around him deal with him. Into his rigidly constrained life comes the (cliched) Rosie, "the world's most incompatible woman... late, vegetarian, disorganized, irrational".

I enjoyed the humor and found the story clever. While the situation started out a cliche, all the characters were interesting and most grew through the novel. Especially Don, who found love and acceptance, even if he still didn't acknowledge his own limitations. His view of Asperger's as a potential bonus reflects another novel I read recently, [b:The Speed of Dark|96063|The Speed of Dark|Elizabeth Moon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320497793s/96063.jpg|1128271]. I think Don puts it best:

"I formed a provisional conclusion that most of these were simply variations in human brain function that had been inappropriately medicalised because they did not fit social norms - constructed social norms - that reflected the most common human configuration rather than the full range."

I start the sequel soon, with some trepidation; it is not as highly rated. Regardless of the outcome of that project, this quick read is definitely recommended.