![]() ![]() ![]() His specialty: genetic predisposition to cirrhosis of the liver. “I had no previous knowledge of autism spectrum disorders, as they were outside my specialty,” he explains. Once Gene offers a solution to Don’s conflict between the time of the lecture and the time Don had planned to clean his bathroom, this capable fellow gets to work preparing the lecture. “Gene’s lecture problem had arisen,” Don explains in his signature deadpan tone, “because he had an opportunity to have sex with a Chilean academic who was visiting Melbourne for a conference.” In the first scene of the book, his philandering colleague, Gene, asks Don to sub for him at a lecture he’s supposed to give on Asperger’s. ![]() That something is what readers will identify as Asperger’s syndrome - Don is long on logic, unpracticed with emotion and challenged by social cues. However, there is something about me that women find unappealing.” Logically, I should be attractive to a wide range of women. Don Tillman, the narrator of Graeme Simsion’s debut novel, “The Rosie Project,” is, in his own words, “thirty-nine years old, tall, fit, and intelligent, with a relatively high status and above-average income as an associate professor. ![]()
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