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Anybody read "Room" by Emma Donoghue

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 authenticnow (original poster member #16024) posted at 1:29 AM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I just started it. Very strange and slow reading. But very different.

Just wondering what others thought.

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epiphany2006 ( member #10126) posted at 4:17 AM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I read it. It was difficult going at first. It got easier once I realized why the character thought like he did. I did enjoy it and it ended well.

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neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 10:19 AM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Just downloaded it to my Nook, but have already started another book (The Help), so won't be getting to it for a day or two.

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 authenticnow (original poster member #16024) posted at 11:29 AM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I read a lot more of it last night before bed. I am in the last section. It got to the point where I couldn't put it down. I am loving it.

DS, you are forever in my heart. Thank you for sharing your beautiful spirit with me. I will always try to live by the example you have set. I love you and miss you every day and am sorry you had to go so soon, it just doesn't seem fair.

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Skye ( member #325) posted at 1:16 PM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I'm glad you went farther in the book. I can't say I "loved" it. I found it very disturbing al the way to the end, but the beginning was the hardest. Was glad I did read it, though. Someone told me it was available on audio books. There is no way I could have listened to it in the child's voice.

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ladyvorkosigan ( member #8283) posted at 2:33 PM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

I can't read things like that. If it's effective my skin will hurt. I have to avoid certain IRL news stories (like Austrian Incest Dungeon Dad, Caylee Anthony, for example) onaccounta the skin hurting thing.

It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.

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 authenticnow (original poster member #16024) posted at 3:33 PM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Skye, good point. Audio would not be easy to do with this book.

lady, I understand. I get like that with holocaust movies. I get a pain in my stomach and nauseous. Certain things just do that.

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TopsyTurvey ( new member #27048) posted at 11:58 PM on Monday, June 20th, 2011

Yes, keep reading. This book is both grueling and disturbing but when all was said and done, I was glad I read it.

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neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 11:21 PM on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

I have read it now, just finished it.

Interesting read. I think the author did a pretty good job of looking at the world through the eyes of Jack.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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getting real ( member #28912) posted at 9:19 PM on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

I think this was actually the best novel I've read this year. The plot structure is a cool twist on the archetypal Hero's Quest, and I found the kid's perspective and "voice" authentic and believable.

I like my books pretty dark and twisty, though.

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Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 1:53 AM on Friday, July 8th, 2011

I like my books pretty dark and twisty, though.

Me too. Unless it involves kids or animals.

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devistatedmom ( member #24961) posted at 3:20 AM on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

I really enjoyed this book. I think looking at it from the "how does the mind work" perspective, his thinking patterns remind me of some of the kids I work with. Your mind and world can only be as big as what you have experienced.

I really need to look for more of her books.

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Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 2:26 AM on Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Okay, I read it for book club, against my better judgment and it was actually quite good.

It was a bit contrived in places, but Jack's perspective lessened the horror of their reality.

In all, I thought it was well done.

Did I hear it was getting made into a movie?

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Helen of Troy ( member #26419) posted at 2:50 PM on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Reading this now, few chapters in. Not sure about opinion yet.

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Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 4:23 PM on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

The first half of the book is the hardest.

She packed up her potential and all she had learned and headed out to change a few things.

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Feelforgotten ( member #32929) posted at 5:13 PM on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

I read it on plane trip. It takes awhile to get used to, but I found myself thinking of it afterwards a lot.

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Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 10:54 PM on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

bumpety-bump

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Inchoate ( member #9065) posted at 2:59 AM on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

I'm reading it now. I have to take in little bits, otherwise I get the whim-whams.

The voice is pretty extraordinary. Yes, there are a few flat notes and clunkers, but I find myself remembering how I "saw" the world when I was very small. Immediate, visceral memory, as when memory is stimulated by a smell. That's pretty incredible, especially when you consider so much of our early memory isn't stored as words, and that children are believed to spend a lot of their waking hours in a different brain wave pattern than adults. That the author had access to that way of seeing, to say nothing of being able to articulate it in a way that conveys it wholly to the reader, is quite astounding, IMO.

I also think I would not have gotten nearly as much out of this book before children. Some of the subtleties in the way his mother protects him would have been completely over my head then, and move me to tears now.

ETA: ladyv--I don't get it in my skin. I get it in my leg joints and the soles of my feet. A weird, hot/cold/quivery "feeling," like the "taste" of the inside of your cheek when you've bitten it.

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willthiseverend ( member #25107) posted at 11:00 PM on Saturday, November 12th, 2011

Haven't read it intend to.

I remember Emma as a seven year old. Very strange and quirky. I was in her sister Barbara's class in school. Her Dad is Denis Donoghue, a n Englsh prfessor in our local university when I was in school. He has quite an international reputation!

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ScribblingMum ( member #20097) posted at 5:13 AM on Sunday, November 13th, 2011

I can't wait to read it!

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