Room is a claustrophobic tale of terror, captivity, co-dependence and isolation narrated by a 5-year old child, which makes the reading experience unique, to say the least. In fact, I think that had it not been for this narrative technique, I would have probably sat this one out, out of fear of wast...
I sometimes do feel like a philistine, because my middlebrow tastes mean I wrinkle my nose at Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. It's not that I don't like writers who take chances with style. I've read entire novels in second person and loved them, but above all I want a story. This, well, this is diffe...
For my full-length review, please visit Casual Debris.Trapped in their small square room, Ma and Jack experience two separate realities. To five year-old Jack ROOM is his entire universe, and the universe of that room is experienced as another four-letter word, WOMB. To Jack the room is the safest p...
I'm unsure about this one ..... I'm not a fan of using kids as narrator and Room did not change my opinion. Jack, who tells the story, is 5 years old and lives captive with his mother in a shed at the bottom of the garden belonging to Old Nick, her kidnapper and abuser. So the subject matter is pre...
Pro:Die Grundidee für "Raum" ist bestechend: ein kleiner Junge hält die 12 Quadratmeter, in denen er sein kurzes Leben bisher verbracht hat, für die ganze Welt, weil seine Mutter es ihm so erklärt hat. Er hat keine Ahnung, dass die Dinge, die er im Fernsehen sieht, "in echt" sind. In seiner Unschuld...
Room really took me by surprise. I'd heard great things, yes, but for some reason I didn't think it sounded like the type of story I would personally really enjoy. I found the audiobook of this at my library and decided to try it out - and boy am I glad I did.A note on the audiobook: the audiobook (...
A 4.5 - a brilliant novel.Room really took me by surprise. I'd heard great things, yes, but for some reason I didn't think it sounded like the type of story I would personally really enjoy. I found the audiobook of this at my library and decided to try it out - and boy am I glad I did.A note on the ...
What hold could Old Nick have over Ma that would make that room her world? Why didn't she just leave? Or maybe she wasn't able to leave? Jack's fifth birthday definitely wouldn't be what a normal five-year-old would be delighted with, but Jack was happy to spend the day with his Ma in their ordinar...
Engaging. Well done, which is hard for a book written in a child's voice. I really wanted to know what was going to happen, especially in the second half of the book, although I felt that the restraint that got the reader through the first part was a little stifling for the second half. I just wante...
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