Room is all five-year-old Jack has known his entire life. It's where he lives with Ma who is visited some nights by Old Nick. Jack has to stay in the wardrobe during those times. He doesn't realizes there's a world outside and that the things he sees on the TV are real. He also doesn't realize that ...
WOAH. I don't know where to start other than... woah. I read Frog Music months ago, and I'd been hearing lots of buzz about Room, but hadn't picked it up until a friend raved about it. This is such a heart wrenching and well crafted book. I was so surprised that the narration of a 5 year old lan...
Decidedly neutral. On one hand, it was absolutely riveting: a true one-sitting books. However, I never managed to grow accustomed to Jack's voice, finding it borderline annoying and overly precious to the last, and the plot becomes unfocused after the first half. I really wish either more or less em...
I picked this one up because I've talked about Frog Music, Donoghue's other novel, and every time... someone asks if I've read Room. When I tell them I haven't, I got the same response every time. Well, I absolutely need to do it as an audiobook. It's told by a child.This seemed pretty gimmicky to m...
4.5/5OVERALL IMPRESSION: This book was just wow. I've wanted to read it for a while, but I recently started getting into audiobooks and saw that this was available at my library so I decided to give it a try. The thing about this book that makes it so haunting is the narrator playing Jack. He really...
It didn't take me long to read this book. 24 hours. 1 day. But in that time I felt so utterly consumed by it I could think of nothing else. It made interacting with other people difficult because I couldn't explain how I was feeling, or why. It is haunting.Jack just turned five years old. His entire...
Disturbingly awesome read. The writing style i.e. living in a 5 year Old's brain took some getting used to but then I couldn't put this down. "To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his M...
Jack is a 5-year-old boy who lives with his Ma in Room. They have tons of things to do every day. They take a bath, they eat, they build things with old boxes, they do Phys Ed, they get to watch TV just for a little while because it rottens your brain, they have treats every Sunday, and then Jack ha...
Quite a few people recommended this book. There were plenty of good reviews. I waited a very long time to finally get my hands on this book and was so excited to read it. This book did disappoint me. I understand that it's a difficult subject to write about or even read about sometimes. The author h...
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