Room: A Novel
Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating -- a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
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This book was incredibly difficult to read.
Not because it was badly written. On the contrary, it was hard to read exactly because it was so well written. The juxtaposition between the horrific situation the characters are in and the narration of Jack's five-year-old voice made for a very strange read (in a good way), clashing between innocence and horror. What I thought was so great about this book was that even though we learn all about everyth...read more
Not because it was badly written. On the contrary, it was hard to read exactly because it was so well written. The juxtaposition between the horrific situation the characters are in and the narration of Jack's five-year-old voice made for a very strange read (in a good way), clashing between innocence and horror. What I thought was so great about this book was that even though we learn all about everyth...read more
OK, oddly compelling. I almost stayed up all night reading, which is surprising because when I started out I found the language so stilted that I had a hard time continuing. The premise of the story is so horrifying - a child and his mother locked up 24/7 in an 11x11 room. The reason for the lock up is eventually revealed and the story, narrated thru the voice of this very precocious, yet obviously unworldly, five year old. Donoghue has done a ...read more
Extremely hard to read as a mother and yet I had to finish and find out how it ended. Emotional to say the least
Extremely different novel--couldn't put it down. Really made you think. I would highly recommend this book.
I liked it, I'm just not sure why I spent time reading it? Like how has my life expanded from it? I might be becoming an increasingly hard critic these days, and I don't like it.
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