I too loved Room though it was against my initial reaction to the premise. I've had a handful of students read it since and they all love it.
Cool link, Jesse!
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Jun 22, 2011 1:11:07 pm PDT #15387 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan walker - Jun 22, 2011 1:25:40 pm PDT #15388 of 28769
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I too loved Room though it was against my initial reaction to the premise.
Interesting... because the premise is why I avoided it.
sumi - Jun 22, 2011 3:14:54 pm PDT #15389 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh, Dunk & Egg are going to Winterfell in the 4th Dunk & Egg novela.
(Darn it: it's speculation that they're going to Winterfell - because the title is "Dangerous Women" and the "Wolf Women of Winterfell" had been mentioned by GRRM at some point elsewhere.)
Jesse - Jun 22, 2011 3:45:00 pm PDT #15390 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Interesting... because the premise is why I avoided it.
It's almost nothing like what you might expect based on the premise, I think -- mostly because the narrator is the kid.
Amy - Jun 22, 2011 3:49:14 pm PDT #15391 of 28769
Because books.
I just read the first few pages on Amazon. She gets that kid voice really well.
Sue - Jun 22, 2011 4:16:54 pm PDT #15392 of 28769
hip deep in pie
I was warned off by the voice in Room.
beth b - Jun 22, 2011 4:46:35 pm PDT #15393 of 28769
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I know people that hate room becaue of the voice ( one was a gradnmother )
Jesse - Jun 22, 2011 4:49:34 pm PDT #15394 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, if you read the sample bits and can't deal with it, it's not for you, but I thought it was just lovely.
Amy - Jun 22, 2011 4:52:56 pm PDT #15395 of 28769
Because books.
I love a child's voice that seems realistic to me, because so often they really, really aren't.
Kat - Jun 22, 2011 4:58:00 pm PDT #15396 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think it was a good voice, definitely not one that irritated.
I read the book prepared to hate it and I just....didn't. It surprised me. Especially the change halfway through.