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Original Title:	Rummet
ISBN:	0804139989 (ISBN13: 9780804139984)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Stockholm(Sweden)

The Room

Jonas Karlsson

Paperback | Pages: 190 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 4183 Users | 743 Reviews

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Title	:	The Room
Author	:	Jonas Karlsson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 190 pages
Published	:	February 17th 2015 by Hogarth (first published February 5th 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Novels

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Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms.

Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works - a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try to have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room.

Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn't leave a word out of place in this brilliant, bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go--in a world ruled by conformity - to live an individual and examined life.

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Ratings: 3.55 From 4183 Users | 743 Reviews

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Mixed feelings about this... finished in one sitting on my plane ride back to L.A. from Booktopia VT. The concept of the book is wonderful and sets the foundation for several effective metaphors about work-place conformity and banality. But the story took a few turns I thought were for the worse. The story definitely addressed some darker themes (i.e. mental health, lack of empathy, taking productivity to the extreme at the cost of human interaction, and an absence of individuality at the

Thanks to Goodreads and Crown Publishing for the advance review copy. I may be the #1 fan of Hogarth, the imprint of Crown Publishing that will be releasing this book in the U.S. in February.I was somewhat skeptical of this based on the synopsis. First, its written by an actor, Jonas Karlsson. I dont want to name names, but the actor-turned-writer thing has me a bit skittish. Second, it was described as Kafkaesque. For me, thats never a good start. Not that I dont like Kafka, of course. I just

Cecily wrote: "Evidently I missed this review pre-pandemic lockdown. It's interested to read it - and the comments - now that working in a crowded

LOL!! what did I just read!!?? *rhetorical* First off there are 188 pages in the uncorrected proof/print format and the GR's page says about 128. No big deal, just a note, but OMG! I Loved this book!! I'd so happily take a million+ more like it and read them all!! It's killing me to have seen bad reviews on Amazon because it was fantastic in its quirky, WTH, is going on, puzzling wonderful way. I don't know, I've always been the odd man *woman* out when it comes to books and I adored this one.

I can't really say that I didn't like this short novelit's well-written at the sentence level, it moves quickly, and it kept me entertained and even made me laugh out loud a few times. Ultimately, though, it just didn't work for me. The protagonist, Bjorn, is your classic unreliable narratorwe can't tell if he's mentally ill, or a clueless asshole, or just a creative, nonconformist guy in a department of colleagues who don't care for creativity and lack of conformity. Because we don't know who

I love that the setting of this book is in a bland corporate workplace without a true identity, only identified as The Authority, that is easily relatable to anyone who has had a similar job. It comes off as a satire of how boring and repetitive that can be. The writing is sharp and to the point with enough wit to keep the narrative from becoming dry and boring. The writing is very good, but unusually spare, with only as much detail given to propel the plot.Bjorn, our protagonist, has such a set

Meet Bjorn - a legend in his own mind with a superiority complex that is off the charts and who considers himself management material through and through. He is profoundly inept socially, obtuse, odd, off-putting, awkward, and downright creepy. You know, one of those people who keeps tabs on everyone elsewhen they go to lunch and when they come back, how long they talk on the phone, chat by the coffee machine, etc. Yes, you know exactly the kind of person Im talking about. You probably have a