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 Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in … him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack’s curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
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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The point of view is from a child, yet this book is intelligent and amazing. Great writing about a terrible subject, and how a mother did the best she could for her child.
I could not put this book down. It was sad and disgusting but inspirational and loving too. I recently say the movie and was not disappointed with the movie like I have been with other books made into movies.
I don’t know if I really ‘enjoyed’ (it feels wrong to say I enjoyed a book on this topic) this book but it kept my attention to the end. I liked that it described how mother and son lived in the Room hidden by their captor, the escape, and the adjustment to the outside/real world. I really want to discuss this book but I feel any detail would be a …
A crazed man kidnaps a woman, imprisons her in a hidden room and impregnates her. Her son has never known anything other than “room”. To him, it is the entire world. Though it was a bit tedious at the beginning (it probably had to be given the subject matter) I’m glad I stuck with it. Once they made it out of “room” all hell broke loose. It …
Out of all the books I’ve read throughout my life, there’s only two that have haunted and affected me in such a way, it changed my view of reality: Go Ask Alice and Room.
My grandmother recommended Room to me a few years ago–before the movie. It’s written from the POV of a five-year-old. The POV was jarring and I ALMOST put it down. I’m glad I …
Room, though presented from five-year-old Jack’s limited point-of-view, has effectively captivated readers of all genres. While many living in poverty can relate to homespun toys — a snake constructed from eggshells with needle and thread — unlike Jack and his mother, these women and their children have access to the outside world, regardless of …
It takes a lot for a book to leave me speechless but this one did. It is written from the POV of 5 year old Jack. I honestly can’t tell if this made the book easier to read/listen to, or more horrifying. Knowing what his innocent mind was describing at times, without him I understanding what was happening… it gave my goosebumps goosebumps.
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I don’t usually like to jump on the bandwagon and read what everyone else is reading, but I am so glad I decided to jump on this one. Room is one of those books that toward the end you just want to read a few pages at a time so that you can savor it just a little bit longer.
Room is told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, who was born in …
Pulls you in from the very beginning, and keeps you wondering all the way to the end. It’s hard to imagine how one would function under this specific circumstance in the novel, but Room shared the blueprint. Incredibly painful and uplifting at once.
Written from the POV of a five-year-old boy a boy who has spent those five years in one room with his imprisoned mother. At first, I found it hard to get into the story, but I continued to read and soon couldn’t stop wanting to know how the boy and his mother would adjust when they were back in the “Outside” having escaped their captor and being …
This book really stuck with me.
Sad story, realistic, faith building. Good overcomes evil!
Many people rave about Room. I admit, the five-year-old boy as narrator was inspirational – for a time. After a while it became tedious and hard work, and there are many times such a young boy would not have thought or behaved in the described ways (even though she used her own son as a model). It fell apart, for me, with the escape, which was a …
Great in audiobook form as well.
Great read! Amazing testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Emma Donogue packed so many emotions into this incredible novel. She channeled the voice of 5-year-old Jack, the storyteller of the only world he has known: one room. In the beginning, we don’t know the room that Jack is describing. Nor do we realize that he and his mother are captives of a madman in this room. What we do understand is that Jack …
Even though I read this a couple years ago, I still really enjoy reading a couple pages here and there. The book is very well-written and a beautiful thing to finish. I love how it sort of draws you in and it makes you do that thing….you know, “Just one more chapter….maybe one more….one more….one more wouldn’t kill me…” I would …
This book was amazing. Writing from the point of view of a five-year-old who has had no contact with the outside world… I mean, really, it’s an audacious and ultimately thrilling undertaking. I am so impressed with Ms. Donoghue’s sheer guts for writing this book this way. I read Room almost in one sitting. Excellent.
Loved this book
A story of imagination, hope and, most of all, the power of love.