Just started reading "Room" and it's awful!

Sunflower777 · April 2011

I am about 70 pages into it and I don't really want to keep reading because it bums me out. But so many people have said it's so good, I'm compelled to keep going.

Anyone read it? What did you think? Right now I'm wanting to know how the mother got trapped, I hope they end up explaining that.

meghans30 · April 2011

Who is it by? Haven't heard of it.

GinandTonic · April 2011

You know, people rave about it, but I wasn't all that impressed. I got really annoyed by the 5-year-old perspective to name one thing.

It's disturbing and thought-provoking, but not my favorite.

skippy2310 · April 2011

GinandTonic:
You know, people rave about it, but I wasn't all that impressed. I got really annoyed by the 5-year-old perspective to name one thing.

It's disturbing and thought-provoking, but not my favorite.

Ditto this. I wasn't a huge fan.

JOEBunny · April 2011

I loved it. I listened to it in the car with DD and she loved it too. It is narrated by a "child" on the CD, she didn't get the sub context, just the big story line. It was interesting to listen to with her (I had planned to switch to my ipod when the story got bad, but there are really only a few parts, toward the end where I felt I really needed to do that.) I am kind of fascinated by criminal behavior, particularly serial and missing persons, so it was interesting to me from the real cases I have read.

Sunflower777 · April 2011

meghans30:
Who is it by? Haven't heard of it.

The author is Emma Donoghue.

I'm only 70 pages into it, as I mentioned, but I can see how it's an interesting perspective, but I just feel bad for the little boy right now. I am interested to see where this story is going to go.

Bride2b2004 · April 2011

Sunflower777:
I'm only 70 pages into it, as I mentioned, but I can see how it's an interesting perspective, but I just feel bad for the little boy right now. I am interested to see where this story is going to go.

It is a good book. Worth the read. I agree it is a sad story. Amazing when you think of the outlook of the 5yo when you know his situation from an adult perspective. Children are amazing. Keep reading, I don't think you will regret it.

Zenya · April 2011

I just finished it (and mailed it off via paperbackswap actually). It annoyed me in places but overall I enjoyed it. The writer is irish. A lesbian living in canada. I grew up in ireland so it was just an extra piece of info for me.

summerbrideDC · April 2011

Its a phenomenal book; I think I read it in one sitting. I don't remember how detailed the description of her abduction is, but I found pretty much everything about the book riveting.

StarryNight39 · April 2011

It took me 2-3 times to actually get into it, but once I did I really enjoyed it. Keep going!

stephsteph77 · April 2011

I thought it was pretty disturbing, but kept reading it because I wanted to know how everything turned out. I wouldn't say it's a favorite book by a long shot, but it was decent.

michelcreek · April 2011

It is disturbing, totally agree! I didn't like this book at all but still finished it just to know what happened. I wish I wouldn't have picked it up to begin with. One similar book in that it's disturbing and still gets high ratings is Sarah's Key. That is another one I wish I would have passed on, ug.