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"Room" by Emma Donoghue - gave me nightmares :( (Original Post) patricia92243 Dec 2011 OP
Just reading what you wrote gave me goosebumps!... Little Star Dec 2011 #1
Loved her 'Slammerkin', I might give this a try. jannyk Dec 2011 #2
Yeah there is no way I would read that book. applegrove Dec 2011 #3
I read it and liked it a lot. SheilaT Jan 2012 #4
My thoughts exactly. I really enjoyed the first half of the book. n/t BeeBee Jan 2012 #5
I kind of agree too. Kablooie Feb 2012 #6

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
1. Just reading what you wrote gave me goosebumps!...
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 05:41 PM
Dec 2011

I don't think I would want to read that book. Thanks for the warning.

LS

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
4. I read it and liked it a lot.
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 12:07 AM
Jan 2012

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The first half, where they're still in the room, is extremely well done. But the second half, falls apart. Almost no one seems to behave in ways I think they would have behaved, not the woman, not her parents, not the kid. The core idea was so good, and so well executed in that first half, that it felt that the author had written herself into a corner, and tried to write back out, but didn't do it so well.

As someone who tries to write myself, I know how difficult it can be to write a short story well enough to be publishable, and an entire novel must be several orders of magnitude more difficult. But in this book, the entire second half was, for me, entirely unsatisfying.











Kablooie

(18,787 posts)
6. I kind of agree too.
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 02:02 AM
Feb 2012

I liked the first part but it gave me a sickly feeling in my stomach.

The second part was hard to relate to.

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