The County Library discussion

This is one that everyone is talking about at the library. I haven't read it yet, because the premise is pretty creepy, but I hear it's amazing and I'm trying to work myself up to it. What do you think?

I loved it, but it is very tense, and yes, creepy.

I could not put it down, thought about the characters when I was not reading, and still wonder how Ma and Jack are doing today. That's how real these fictional characters were to me.

The premise is creepy but the perspective is always from Jack's point of view (the 5-year-old,) so you can hide in the closet with him during the really hard stuff.

The hardest part for me was when Ma hit bottom during her recovery. (Well, that sentence took special tweaking to not give away the plot.) I'm now curious about the stages of recovery in situations like this, guess I'll have to go find some non-fiction. If I can find something on the topic that I'll be able to finish.

I am glad I read this book. It is definitely disturbing in many ways, but I always like something out of the ordinary in a book and I felt that the voice of five year old Jack and also that such an adult novel topic wise was told from a child's perspective definitely puts this book in the unique and intriguing category for me. I am not sure that Jack's voice was totally authentic--but then again I can't really remember much about when I was five...

I listened to Room, which was kind of fun, because I was able to hear the voices of Jack and Mom. I do agree, though, that it was a little unsettling. I picked it up because it sounded unique--definitely was that.
So, in a fictional 10 years, who will have healed best from this experience--Jack or Mom?

I thought this was interesting. I think if it had been told from the view point of the mother it would have been too sad and ugly of a story for me to read, but from the view point of the child, it was a touching story.