Room - Is it good?

The Nap Taker

I just started "Room" I'm to the part where they just escaped and in the mental hospital. I find it good but I'm a little disconnected from it, at times I find it irritating. Just wondering if it is as "amazing" as people have said or if it gets better?

I have a bad habit of not finishing a book if I can't get into it.

I did like the start of it and was on the edge of my seat with the whole escape scenario.

klondikebar

Same here. I liked it, but I don't remember how it ended.

catycate

I liked it, but I wouldn't call it amazing.

Ireland05

catycate said:

I liked it, but I wouldn't call it amazing.

This.  I thought it was a quick read, but it gets to be a little of a stretch after the escape.  I think it's worth it to make it to the end, but I hate to give up on books.  I just downloaded a book for the third time from the library because I don't like it, but I can't give up on finishing it.  

LuckyDad

I read the wikipedia summary (I often like doing this with popular books rather than actually reading them: FFFC?) It does sound like you are through the bulk of the plot, Nap Taker.

To me, the real life case the author was inspired by sounds way more fascinating than the book.

gollywollypog

I remember that part as the end of the book, no? If you're that far in you might as well just finish.

virgin4lyfe

Thanks to @LuckyDad I just read the whole Wiki of the case it was based on. I might have to read this now...

Ireland05

Yeah, @luckydad is right, the story it was based on was even more fucked up. Dude kidnapped his own daughter, kept her for 24 years in his basement, fathered 7 kids with her, and left 3 of the kids down there with her. His own wife/her mother didn't know about it. The craziest part is that he started remodeling the basement a year before the kidnaping, and renovated it at some point to accommodate the kids.

Thanks, luckydad for that time suck. So sad for that woman and her kids!

LuckyDad

Ireland05 said:

Yeah, @luckydad is right, the story it was based on was even more fucked up. Dude kidnapped his own daughter, kept her for 24 years in his basement, fathered 7 kids with her, and left 3 of the kids down there with her. His own wife/her mother didn't know about it. The craziest part is that he started remodeling the basement a year before the kidnaping, and renovated it at some point to accommodate the kids. Thanks, luckydad for that time suck. So sad for that woman and her kids!

You're welcome?

I didn't make you read it. And I didn't start this thread!

Nor did I write Room.

I feel like I am about 2% to blame.

jlw2505

Hard book to say I love just due to the topic but I found it very interesting and hard to put down.  So hard to imagine and even more so now with the stories of the women that were kept in the house in OH and some of the other scary stuff out there that has been in the news in the last few years with women being held in rooms or houses.