By ANY means, would you call the 5 year old boy in the novel Room (if you haven't read it, you ain't missing ANYTHING) who every five pages has to feed from mommy's breasts (left one is CREAMY), and says 'Mom went to Furnace (Furnace is a person apparently, all furniture is people) to HOT the air, rug SHE has a stain where I was born, there was more but I forgotted' and that is just within the first 7 pages and that was all I could read before I was ready to toss the book out the window. Would you call that 'normal' by ANY means?

Keep in mind this kid was born into a vacuum, his mother has been imprisoned by her kidnapper for 7 years and got her pregnant and keeps her and her son in one solitary room for their whole lives. Now, that right away you can understand this is not a normal situation, BUT, Mom doesn't talk like a retard, and he watches TV where the characters may be retarded but they can still speak correctly, but he still isn't aware that there exists a word called THE, instead all furniture is hims and hers, not THE furnace, THE rug, THE bed, BUT he is also able to identify all the masterpiece paintings that are on the walls, he knows the titles and the names of the people who painted them but it's still Furnace HE, Rug SHE, want breakfast the left is creamy.

And the real kick in the teeth is in the opening sentence of the book's summary, the author describes him as a NORMAL 5 year old boy. And I got into a debate on the book board on IMDb about this, and somebody is saying that the author is trying to do away with the automatic labels of what's normal and abnormal or sick...well, you can keep your PC 'we don't label people here', for lack of a nicer word in the little part I read I found the kid is already fucked up beyond belief AND beyond repair, not by any stretch of the imagination what I would call normal. But that's just me, I really had no stomach to try and get into the second chapter of that travesty that somehow wound up one of the top 10 bestsellers of last year, anybody else got any thoughts about it?

I never heard of that book, but it doesn't sound very good. It has to be hard to follow, as I had to read your post twice to understand!

But, no, none of that is normal. But now, I am curious, so maybe I will look at it at the library!

Not normal at all.

I had a little trouble getting past the first paragraph of your post. Nah, he ain't normal in the least.

Nystyle709 wrote:

I had a little trouble getting past the first paragraph of your post. Nah, he ain't normal in the least.

Same here. I didn't really get it.

AtownPeep wrote:

Nystyle709 wrote:

I had a little trouble getting past the first paragraph of your post. Nah, he ain't normal in the least.

Same here. I didn't really get it.

Think that's bad, try reading the damn book and still not getting it, it's written that poorly. Seriously, HOW in the world could something like this make top 10 bestseller of the year?

That was a top seller? I think it has to do with the creamy breast. Otherwise I can't fathom how that would be a top seller.